I am pursuing a career as an environment artist, 14 weeks from now I graduate and enter the job search. I'm taking a still life painting class where I work with oil paint, in my attempts to produce still life paintings. I took the class because I felt it might help me in some way with texture painting. So, is it worth it…
It is worth it. I find that after a busy week at work painting digitally, I like to paint with oil during weekend or learn to play guitar to relax. One thing to note though. Painting with real paints is quite costly. It is an expensive hobby. Nevertheless, start off with as few color tubes as possible.
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but do you guys think there is any downside to learning how to paint digitally as opposed to traditionally? I have next to no experience with traditional painting, but I'm really interested in learning how to paint with a tablet and photoshop.
Absolutely. Not only will you have an easier time transitioning to digital painting, but you will gain other benefits that will cross over into various facets of your day-to-day tasks. A solid grasp on composition, for instance. I also find that traditional painting has always allowed/forced me to take a step back and…
uhh, fuck yeah it is. I actually did this backwards... I learned to paint digital first, and now I'm trying to get into the traditional side of it. painting is so much fun though.
I started digitally, and than started playing with traditional painting, and a few benefits of painting that I've discovered for myself so far are a) you will be more efficient with your digital painting if you do it traditionally; you won't be guessing as much, and will less likely fall into over-rendering shit at 400 %…
op: do traditional painting, you won't regret it. You may want to try acrylics too, they might mesh better with the instant gratification mindset us nerds sometimes have. seaneg: painting traditionally and digitally are different mediums. I wouldn't say there's a downside to either, they're just different. I love my…