Weakening drawing skills or changing perceptions? (Score 2, Insightful)

Some people have brought up that in their education they're still forced to learn basic drawing skills and a solid artistic/craft grounding, and I agree with this (being an artist too). I think it isn't a question of learning those skills though, but a question of using them regularly. I'd hazard a guess that any artist or designer could tell you that the best way to learn those drawing skills is to get a lot of practice in, conversely, when you get to working and suddenly everyone wants to see things 3D modeled or photoshopped because it looks more finished, then you start focusing more and producing those things faster rather than spending the time sketching. When that happens your drawing skills do tend to erode. It isn't that the software is weakening drawing skills, but more that the software changes peoples' expectations which forces artists to work in a different medium. You could probably counteract it by just forcing yourself to do more drawing every day, I know I just realized my marker rendering skills are shot and have been trying to use them more.