We Are A Camera

The controversy over digital art remains as a contention between traditional artists and digital artists web-wide.When speaking of digital art, I refer to art which is painted stroke by stroke in a program such as Artrage or Corel Painter, and not a cloning program which I don’t consider original art. There is a massive difference between the two, and that is a valid point I feel the puritanical traditional artists need to be able to see in action, or even try for themselves before they can legitimately state that digital art is not art.What are the main reasons given against digital art?1. There is no original.2. There is heart and soul in the traditional work which is created by a human hand.Before I get deeper into my own opinion on this matter, I wish to state that my first love is traditional a Guitar Improvisation Lessons rt, but not for the reasons other’s give. I love traditional art just for the love of the mess, smell and feel. I’m also developing an allergy to some of the products which are forcing me to study the digital realm in depth and ask myself the same question about digital art. Is it art?When I open Corel Painter or Artrage, I am faced with a blank canvas, and from there I paint stroke by stroke gradually building up my underpainting, getting in all the darks and lights before I lay on more paint to bring the work closer to the finished product. After a time, I forget I am sitting at a Cintiq with a graphic pen and am totally immersed in my Painting. Time is lost. My brain can no longer feel a difference between digital or traditional because my entire focus is switched from mechanics to heart and soul.