Comment Re:Its more of "people dont give a damn" (Score 2, Insightful) 268
TFA wasn't complaining about loss of eye-hand coordination, but rather a decline in creativity, patience, discipline and other broader abilities that are the benefits of learning to draw traditionally. Think of drawing as an abstract process wherein the mind is the primary tool-- one does not 'copy' an object from life, because one is interpreting a 3dimensional object into a 2dimensional space-- most commonly using lines-- which most of us are not actually made of. From this POV, a drawing-- no matter how realistic-- is an highly abstracted symbol. It's this process of abstraction (and the benefits of a mind trained for this process) that can suffer if one leans too heavily on a particular tool. The teachers whom I learned the most from approached drawing as a "way" or "path," rather than a single isolated skill.
But is learning to draw traditionally the only way to become a great artist? Probably not.
As others have pointed out, people are always complaining about how "they don't make 'em like they used to." Perhaps like any other profession, the vast majority of practitioners are hacks, at least compared to the stars of their field. I'm are plenty of excellent artists out there who use or depend on computers to generate their art. However, the only ones that come to mind are pretty damn good draftsmen in their own right.
But is learning to draw traditionally the only way to become a great artist? Probably not.
As others have pointed out, people are always complaining about how "they don't make 'em like they used to." Perhaps like any other profession, the vast majority of practitioners are hacks, at least compared to the stars of their field. I'm are plenty of excellent artists out there who use or depend on computers to generate their art. However, the only ones that come to mind are pretty damn good draftsmen in their own right.
