I hate drawing traditionally. I hate how the pencil feels on paper, I hate how my hand feels on the paper, I hate how my sketches come out. I only ever draw on paper as a base if I'm away from my computer. I'll then sketch over it digitally and it looks much different. I feel more free when drawing digitally. I have a lot more line variance, and I can transform anything that didn't quite look right. I started as a traditional artist as well, and once I got into digital, there was no going back.

Right? The pencil felt off, the paper felt off. I couldn't get my lines to look the way I'm used to them looking with my tablet. The weight on my lines, etc. I also like how clean my art looks and with sketching I couldn't get it to look that way. Even when I used my inking pen's and markers to try to make something I liked. It was really discouraging for me. :C

I just can't wait for my stylus to get here. :C

I've been drawing mostly digitally, but for a con I went to last weekend I drew just with pencil. For me my style is definitely different and quality not as high as I would have liked. I do like drawing traditionally, but I've noticed there are a lot of things I do digitally that I just can't do with pencil. Not even undo or layers, but just being able to redraw a line a few times doesn't always work if you mark the page too much, or the eraser is too big to smooth out lines. Even rotating is a bit of a pain compared to digital, and there's no horizontal flipping for drawing.

Basically for folks like myself if one wants to remain proficient both digitally and traditionally, you have to keep practicing both methods because tools and shorts available with one method isn't available in the other. Even the feel of drawing with a tablet pen vs. pencil on paper is a lot different for most.

yeah, I'm going to try and carry this sketchbook with me everywhere I go and to work with me so I can get used to drawing traditionally as well as digitally. I might have to explore different types of pencils and papers too until I find something I really like to use.

It's just a bit discouraging getting all pumped up to sketch and end up feeling miserable about the turn out. :C

Yeah, I know how that is. Oddly I find I like stuff I do in pen more often, even though they tend to be quicker boredom doodles.

I have this issue occasionally, and so I regularly take breaks to revisit the good ol pencil and paper, refresh myself, bring something new to my digital drawings, or fix the settings on my digital medium to imitate pencil texture. It makes me go back to practicing my basics, and not trying too hard to achieve a 'certain look' with my art, and just draw what I feel is right.

I don't think there's really any way to do it other than take your time to practice until you feel good about it again. Some people feel more free drawing digitally but to me it's the opposite - when I draw digitally I'm constrained to what the program can do, with traditional I can make up a new tool on the fly using whatever I have handy.

I personally feel it helps with your drawing speed as it reminds you to think before you draw rather than start drawing and fix it later