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[QUOTE=dgg;38800358]So it's impossible to be a good artist only using pen and paper. That's what you're saying right now. [/QUOTE] Bollocks

[QUOTE=dgg;38800358]So it's impossible to be a good artist only using pen and paper. That's what you're saying right now. It's never about the tools, anyone who thinks so is a fool and likes to make up excuses. Tools can help and improve, but they are never an obstacle.[/QUOTE] It's generally a good idea to go into different mediums anyway, both classical and digital help when trying to nail a specific style

[QUOTE=dgg;38800358]So it's impossible to be a good artist only using pen and paper. That's what you're saying right now. It's never about the tools, anyone who thinks so is a fool and likes to make up excuses. Tools can help and improve, but they are never an obstacle.[/QUOTE] I think a better comparison is trying to become a good artist using only a pile of sticks and rocks. Sure it's [I]possible[/I] but it's needlessly difficult and you can only apply really niche skills.

[QUOTE=wewt!;38811456]It's generally a good idea to go into different mediums anyway, both classical and digital help when trying to nail a specific style[/QUOTE] Yes, but you shouldn't dabble too much into style before you've taught yourself to draw in the first place. You just get caught up in more bad habits you have to unteach yourself. This is what I mean when I say that you'll find out what programs you need by getting good at simply drawing, you learn what you can do on your own and then figure out how do to the things you want to do but can't find a solution to with only pen and paper. If the solution is getting colour crayons, pastel paint or getting a more advanced image editor all depends on what you want to do. [QUOTE=The Vman;38812310]I think a better comparison is trying to become a good artist using only a pile of sticks and rocks. Sure it's [I]possible[/I] but it's needlessly difficult and you can only apply really niche skills.[/QUOTE] But MS Paint isn't the equivelant of sticks and rocks. MS Paint is the equivelant of pen, paper, colours, rulers, erasers and lots of extra stuff. Saying MS Paint is a bad tool for drawing is saying that using pen and paper is a bad way to draw. But my point isn't that MS Paint is the best shit ever and you should use that, I'm saying it is GOOD ENOUGH and the tools aren't the important part.

My school cut a deal with Adobe and gave us all CS6 Master Collection licenses for free 8) *does cool pose and jetpacks out the window*

[QUOTE=dgg;38813065]Yes, but you shouldn't dabble too much into style before you've taught yourself to draw in the first place. You just get caught up in more bad habits you have to unteach yourself.[/QUOTE] No that's not what I meant, I meant when you're doing a specific design as a concept artist, you'd want to use classical mediums or digital depending on the feel you want

Yeah MS Paint doesn't limit you as an artist in the same way that having no use of your hands isn't limiting. You [I]can[/I] do art without hands, and it's often great as a result of your lack of hands. But there's literally no point arbitrarily limiting yourself like that, unless it's to achieve a certain effect.

Until I get Photoshop, any other programs worth trying to practice first?

[QUOTE=pilot;38818882]Until I get Photoshop, any other programs worth trying to practice first?[/QUOTE] [url=http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html]Gimp[/url]

-Sorry, I'm late.-

[QUOTE=dgg;38819861][url=http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html]Gimp[/url][/QUOTE] Okay, thanks. It's actually quite nice. Not Photoshop of course, but it has some good practicing elements to help me. Thanks.