/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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The problem I have with "digital painting" (pretty paradox to begin with), are these brush traces. No matter how much you work on it, eventually every little hairline in a digital artwork will have this dead and faked look to it that you get from brushes.
It's just a failed nostalgic thing, pretending like you could "simulate brushes". And even if those simulations would get better and better, they would still come out completely flat, no matter how you presented it.
And the argument of being able to print it indefinitely is completely bullshit. The same applies for replications of paintings. Cameras, printers and reproduction techniques have become incredibly sharp and true to the color. Reproduction is no unique feature to digital art. Take any fine art printing technique, from Lithography to silkscreen prints. Thinking of it now, digital prints even pale compared to these printing techniques.