Comment on Common Misconceptions: Traditional Art by ArtistsHospital

Traditional is better than digital because it takes more talent and skill

The only skill difference from Photoshop is the wait time is longer. You need to wait for the paint or when spraying fixtave on pastel to dry. Other wise, everything else sort of on the nail. Its more then photoshop doesn't magically give you a better picture. All visual art encompasses the Fundementals constantly.

It's 'bad' to use reference images

All are correct, but its highly debated. In concept art, you do use reference images, but you have to draw a figure that does not exist but is relate close to us. Feng Zhu says you need to be able to depict a form with alot less reference, becuase when you go to paint for companies, your going to have to finish multiple paintings within the same day. However, before this gets to it, you will reference more.
While copying is hotly debated too. look up Everything is a remix. Remix is copying, and we can't learn without copying. Artist are remixers, taking pieces of what we seen and experience.

This is 'my style' of drawing, so I don't need to learn anything else

I think its a weak arguement not just because its halting a development. You can consider practice. You can't judge too quickly that their drawing is halting development. But that, of course you have a style, and everyone has a style. We can say a style is what you do. You have your own steps to do your art. The especially weaker argument is not learning anything else, which is not true. Artist have to constantly learn and observe things daily.


Materials don't matter, even crayons are fine!

Hmmm, its not a totally explained paragraph. Its true and sort of true that materials matter. Its that limited view that Brand names are more important then the actual pigments and reactions in a certain mediums, and could mostly mean that the person is looking for short cuts. Plus its about experimenting and trying something new. Its ok, to use crayons, like the master Don Marco.

The reason to get more expensive is that certian mediums and supplies do a better job to make mediums work with the artist and not against it, even though in cheap meduism, smart as humans are, can work around it or are patient. Mostly its the purity of the medium. In Prismacolors Pastel vs cheap, I find the pastels in the cheaper version are not easy to work with. The cheap do not layer very well, and they come off more easily then Prismas colors. Plus as all of cheap mediums, they are not pure colors when mixed then prisma colors. Or if you just buy the acrylics only, they dry out quickly and its hard to get a good fluid line.



It's ok to buy pre-mixed pigments

The Paragraph I sort of Agree with if your first doing art, but as you get into detail, its actually also about the properties in the pigments too for certain mediums. I know because Im taking acrylic classes and never though that alizirin crimson and pythalo green would make a natural black. Its because these are pretty dark pigments. And I also was about to say the timing, since as long as you understand color theory, it helps, but since you mentioned it, its a never mind.


Because of technological advances, traditional art is dying

It only dimished alot of the old practices of the animation industry. Fact is, its all started with John Lassister. When he introduced Digital art to them, they kick him out, because they were afraid that it will put traditional animators out of the job. And in a way it kind of did. Dreamworks was 2D, but turned completely 3D. There is less true Traditional animation, because computer do a better job. Of course its not completely gone, because hey, there always still some out there, like Hayao Miyazaki.

Yet, John has stated that they all still have the love for traiditonal, despite their workings at Pixar. They never intended for these to go out of buisness. So in a way, thats how traditional should be still alive.

In fact, it should say, that digital has changed traditional quite a bit. Princess and the frog was storyboarded with Toon Boom, but drawn traditionally.