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Traditional Art Labeling by TristanAlexander
I keep running onto the problem of people who do digital art and label it traditional! If you draw something by hand and color it or shade it on the computer, it is NOT traditional art!! If you do something entirely on the computer, it is NOT traditional! If you do everything by hand, NOT with the computer, then THAT IS traditional! How hard is it to label those right?
To some it does not matter and that is fine, but to me I do not like digital art! And I feel like I am being lied to when someone posts something digitally colored and labels it traditional. 90% of the time I can easily tell, but those rare occasions when I can't, I find it dishonest!
Traditional Art Labeling
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I fully agree.
At a very minimum such works should be listed as mixed media. -
If I use a computer to slap some color on a finished ink picture, I label it traditional, because as far as I'm concerned the category is defined by the primary medium. The digital part has little relevance to the quality of the picture, and therefore calling it digital is incorrect.
The take home lesson here is not that one or the other of these views is incorrect, but that the distinction is ambiguous, and cannot be objectively defined as correct, either way, when both media are used together.
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I disagree, if you use any digital it is NO longer traditional!
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But you see how this is something that doesn't have an objective definition, yeah? I work pretty hard on my traditional inks. To me it's dishonest to call colored ink digital, because then I'm lying about the part that I consider important. I'd call it mixed media if I had the option.
So we can disagree about what is digital, but that just supports the main point, that there's not a right or wrong here.
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No, I don't see your point and you clearly do not see mine! ANY digital on a picture makes it digital!
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DeltaStarling
I agree. It's super aggravating to search and find. Or when people do not label at all leaving it as "any" to vague post their usually highly doctored or what have you art.