BLOG from the DUDE LAGOON presents:
Yo--where is it all going to go?
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Up until the last decade or so, we all did art with brushes, pencils, paints and paper. Now, it mostly ain't so. I assume that doing art by computer got so popular because that's what everyone in school were then being taught. And once computers took hold, there was no going back.
I don't use computers much, certainly not for my art, but for many things, I'll concede it's usefulness.Our colorist for Rude Dude, Glenn Whitmore, uses the computer for all our coloring, which I actuallymuch prefer over the hand done work wedid back in the 80's.Though the initial ordeal was rather traumatic, the Dude himself has stepped in many times to do touch-up work on many of our books, most notably the archive books and Nexus the Origin. Though you probably could've trained a monkey to learn it faster.
Still, I will never understand or endorse art on computer over art on paper. I've had person after person tell me how great it is, all top pro artists. Welllllll, sorry, Charlie. The conversion ain't happening here.
Speaking of pencils andpaints, has anyone realized how stratospherically high the prices of art materials have gotten? Hasoos H. Christ, you can't even breath in an art store without parting with at least $60 big ones. I don't know how students can even begin to afford it. The art store I shop at is staffed with excellent people--they even give me a meager discount for being the Dude--yet, one wonders where it's all going to end.
( So--how much do computers cost?)
'Till next time, I remain,
The Humble, $60.00 a breath
Dude
