My digital drawing look good, but my trad drawings look like shit.
Actually, my digital drawings also look like shit if I don’t use my favorite brush.

What do?

What brush is it

>>7619838 (OP)
post an example of both of similar subject matter so we can compare and see what's going wrong dingus

>>7619838 (OP)
stop using your favorite brush. hard round time.

>>7619838 (OP)
It would help if you actually pyw

>>7619838 (OP)
Digital skills dont transfer to traditional.
Traditional does transfer to digital.
Time to become a tradchad and practice pencil drawing.

>>7619890
The skills do, unless you're talking about things that are specific to digital? I think it's easier to transition from trad to digital though. Digital to trad is only annoying for a week or two.

>>7623928
I think its a big longer depending how used to the medium you are. Going from digital to physical paints was a much more difficult process than going from digital to inks.

PYW i can help u, i went through the same thing

>>7619838 (OP)
>"how do I improve my work?"
>doesn't post his work
NIGGER

>>7619838 (OP)
Is this supposed to be a painting or a zbrush sculpt? This shading looks almost exactly like the default gray matcap shader in zbrush. It wasn't made to be realistic, it was made to highlight and contrast surfaces and edges in ways that they would be easy for the sculptor to see.

>>7619890
It depends - if you've studied up on anatomy and proportions and all that draftsmanship stuff, even if your pencil skill are rusty, you'll still be able to sketch well enough fairly quickly.
If you gained a fairly good understanding of tone and colour, should be able to wrap your head around how to go about painting regardless of the medium.

However, if you were ctrl+z-ing with every stroke, or were highly reliant on certain digital trapping, such as layer effects or digital tricks in general, then you were sort of using digital as a crutch and would have a much harder time transitioning.

So you're right... depending on how hard they were leaning on their drawing program.

>>7626066
nta
>if you were ctrl+z-ing with every stroke
True, that's adding a gambling element to your art.
>or were highly reliant on certain digital trapping, such as layer effects or digital tricks in general, then you were sort of using digital as a crutch
I disagree here. These aren't really "crutches" or "tricks", they're just elements of digital art that makes it, well, digital. It's no different than if you were using metallic paint and specific lighting when photographic your piece to attain some effect in trad - you'd have a hard time translating such a thing to digital. Or if you specifically used certain papers for the texture, or other physical weirdness. Doesn't really translate.

Every form of art has its special differences and techniques.

>>7626077
>I disagree here. These aren't really "crutches" or "tricks", they're just elements of digital art that makes it, well, digital.
Maybe, but like I said, if you're 'high reliant' on these elements. For example, what if you are unable to shade your paintings without using multiply or darken on your layer effects? Will you be able to shade well in your traditional work? I doubt it.
What if you use gaussian blur often to ensure the focus is on the area you want in your drawing, or that your drawing doesn't become too busy? Will you be able to ensure those things without the blur in your traditional drawings? Again, I doubt it.

So every form of art may have it's special differences and techniques, but if you require those things in order to make any decent art, you'll have a hard time moving on to a different medium.

>>7626092
Yea I agree with that, I just don't think they are crutches necessarily. Some people just love utilizing the specific weirdness of their chosen path and have no desire to change medium, so such concerns don't matter to them. It's not like limitation of subject matter or "but muh style" or something.