Some new work; Dodge D100

[SRD Art]

I agree to an extent too. I still use PS 6.0 (!) because I like the control I have with the airbrush tool. For what I use it for, I don't see upgrading that until I have to. I used to mainly sketch by hand then bring it into photoshop to illustrate my cars. Now I've discovered AI's usefulness to trace my hand sketches with the pen tool, do a general coloring there and then bring it into PS for the final touchs up and bling. I held off getting CS2 for AI for a long time but now I'm glad I did. I bet I cut my drawing time down 6-8 hours per drawing by starting in AI.

I was googling the web today just looking at vector art and I think a lot of folks are using live trace and passing it off as art. That's lame. But, I also saw some unbelievable vector art accompanied with the wire frames and wow! Just because you can doesn't mean you have to use live trace type stuff. I use it primarily for background effects, grundge look on T-shirt designs, and to recreate some fork's logos for screen printing. It's a cool tool once you get the hang of it. I see your thoughts though, I'm stubborn about my PS 6.

[city_ofthe_south]

I think as digital artists we get pulled from both sides (why am I going on about this I have no idea? This is what happens when I get bored at work.) ... anyway. There are traditionalists who shun digital art and spend all their time trying to get someone to buy their intellectual property. Those folks don't prolly consider the fact that we are traditional artists to some degree or another as well. We all scribbled from the time we were little. But then there is the "time is money" factor. We've chosen to make money doing this by helping other people visualize their ideas and finding that middle ground is the goal. But, I'm all for time savers, no doubt. cityofthesouth, the great philosopher

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I know for myself, there came a point when I didn't see any benefit to hand drawn art anymore. Nothing wrong with it and I commend those that still do it that way, AND I think everybody that wants to draw cars should have to do them well by hand first to learn the basics. But, at least for me, no more smudges, no more bad marker strokes, no more spilled ink, no more dried up markers, no more wrinkled paper, no more eraser induced tears/wrinkles, no more crayon kid's art on a 30 hour project when I turn my back, etc. etc. I'm pretty good with the markers I think but there's no way I can do some of the stuff I do in the computer with 'em. Oh and did I mention the benefits of control Z?

You don't have to use a brush or pencil to be an artist although I admire all who do. It's a bit of a shame, we live in such a fast paced world that "nobody" (not many anyhow) carves furniture by hand anymore, "nobody" paints signs on walls by hand anymore, "nobody" uses a camera that you have to adjust everything for the shot anymore, but technology has opened up a whole new world of what can be done. Remember when you could get Cragar S/S or Keystone Classics and that was about it? Dang, there are companies out there now that let you design your own wheel and they carve it out of Billet as long as you got the cash. I say that's a good thing.

-Junior Apprentice Philosopher,

[city_ofthe_south]

control Z pretty much sums it up for me. I don't "draw" anything anymore either. A sketch or two is as far as I get before I start trying to find the preset control Z button on my mechanical pencil. NO! I DON'T WANT ANY MORE LEAD, I WANT TO UNDO!!!! WHAT KIND OF BUTTON IS THIS?!?!

[SRD Art]