I was wondering who here uses more computer art tools vs old analog tools...just curious is all? I use all analog tools, because computer art didn't really mature until I had become comfortable with the old hand tools and old habits die hard for me. The only thing I do on computer is type out my dialogue for the comic. I like that wacom tablet my girlfriend owns, but I need to get used to drawing on a tablet and having my art appear on the computer screen...still to disorientating for me still. Practice, practice I guess

A lot of times I still prefer traditional tools over the computer. I think that's because I just don't like staring at the computer screen much. I pencil on paper and ink with a brush pen (rather than flash or something), and I still color things with crayons and markers sometimes. :) The computer just doesn't feel very tactile to me. (On the other hand, I can erase my mistakes on it.) I keep meaning to try out Painter but I never get around to it.

I feel the same way about the tactile nature of traditional art tools. IT just seems like me and my art skills with no computer help inbetween. I like computers for art work...or at least I respect what they are capable of. I color with computer, but in very different way than most computer coloring.

Currently, I do all my work digitally. It's just faster and more efficient for me, although I still tend to treat my tablet like a regular pencil when it comes to drawing and coloring on the computer. :/ Almost all of my effects are done manually instead of laying filters on top of things (although I have been known to slap textures on top of pictures, most of them are things I've scanned myself).

'Course, I didn't have a computer until I was 18, and that computer was a pile of junk that wouldn't have been able to run Photoshop if its life depended on it, so I grew up using and learning from traditional tools. I really only started to work seriously in Photoshop about 4-5 years ago. I still do traditional work for small personal projects, but most of my professional and comic work is done digitally.

Im pretty much traditional if you will with my production. Pencils, erasers, paper etc. The only thing that I do on the computer is adjust levels and add the text bubbles. I am trying to get better aquainted with photoshop for future chapters.

Primarily I go traditional. At least for the line art. Colors and letters I do on the computer, in Photoshop and Illustrator respectively.

Though the first issue of Sune was originally lettered entirely by hand, and it was only when I decided to continue on beyond that one-shot story that I went back in Photoshop and removed the hand-drawn letters and balloons, drew in the missing background with my tablet, and then lettered that issue in Illustrator (that way there would be some level of consistency between that issue and the rest).

In general though, I like the feel of a pencil and the paper beneath my hand. I prefer the ritual of changing lead or dipping a quill or a brush in ink. I may leave an outline with an "x" in it for black fill in Photoshop to save time or ink, or do a little bit of correcting in PS if I have a wayward ink mark or an overline somewhere, instead of using Pro White, but that's about it.

I love the way digital art tends to look; there always seems to be a different vibe. I've wanted to get into it a little myself...and Simon/NB from Icarus tried for years to get me to go digital (it was a couple years before he got me to get a tablet, and I still use that same one, 5 years later), but you know...pencil dust on my hand, ink on my fingers...it makes me feel like I've actually done something. I just don't feel like I've birthed anything unless I got at least a little dirty doing it.

And you know...at times, I miss the "clak" and shudder of a typewriter.

For my comic, I do lineart by hand, everything else digitally. For other pieces of art, I usually do everything on the computer. I own no tablet, so it takes hour or even days to finish certain things. But I've gotten pretty good with a mouse. :D

I just can't get use to the idea of doing a drawing or page completely on computer. I need to look at what i'm drawing on or I can't do it. I still enjoy inking and coloring digitally, but for lineart, you can't beat the old ways.

Computers opened up the world of color for me. I just wasn't that good with a brush when it came to watercolors. I was getting there. But then computers came along and wow, I got so much better with color.

Everything else, I do old school. I sketch thumbnails. I enlarge them. I resketch them more detailed. I enlarge them again, and fit them to the page size I need them at. I then "trace" my sketches lightly onto illustration board with a lightbox. I then draw my comic. Ink it. And then scan it for colors.

Oh and yeah, I do my dialogue on the computer too. I still hand letter a few things (sound effects mainly). And I'm getting better at it. But I don't have the patience for hand lettering all of my dialogue.

Ah, and one final thing that computers have helped with greatly: PHOTO REFERENCE! It used to be kind of a pain, and sometimes stupidly expensive, to get photo reference for what I was drawing. But these days, if I need to say, draw a 1967 Cadillac ... Google image search For The Win!

draw with a number 2 pencil on computer paper, ink with a sharpie, and I fill in big areas of black and do the speech bubbles and dialog with the computer in photoshop (but sometimes I use hand-drawn bubbles for special reasons).

It really depends on what I'm doing. I don't think I could give up my old trusted pencil, but I can live without digital, so in that sense I'm "traditional".
Then again, Lost is as digital as it gets, so maybe I can't live without it.

But it has been a long time since I've colored anything digitally. Maybe I should give it a go again soon.

Straight up digital, here. My comic is done entirely on Photoshop. I find it easier to just cut the middleman (scanning) and do it all digitally. I'm still getting the hang of using my tablet, but so far, I like the results.

sharpies on paper, over pencil, is how COTR is done. Toilet Paper (which is not on drunkduck) is done photoshop over pencil, digital inking, coloring, and whatnot.

I do the line art and inking the traditional way. I used to have a small WACOM pad a few years ago and tried drawing digitally. I just couldn't get used to it. I'd rather draw on paper. The coloring and lettering I do on computer via Photoshop.