I like to think there still is

thanks babe. Your feedback does count

I still do traditional, I would commission if I could, I feel the same w/ my art but still try and you should continue to try as well.

It was just weird that like... I used to get regular commissions besides "underselling myself" and now its like... nothing. It might be the season. It might be that all the holiday money is gone, which is understandable.

A lot of weird is going on. I hope that the con i have in March proves other wise, y'know? Like stuff... actually moves.

I know what you mean, in June or July of this year, I had lil to no commissions for many months, I tried sales and such but no one took the offer(s) I gave, even now.
So I'm not sure why I'm not getting what I used to, whether it is cause of my art style, how much I'm asking for or what.

To be fair, this is a digital platform for art, which means a lot of it will be digital for convenience! But traditional art is still valuable, and there will still be people who want it (like me!). Rather than invest in a tablet or digital drawing tool, what about a good scanner, or some other method of translating what you do onto this site? You don't have to give up what you like.

SPEAKING OF

I have a bookmark to send you. Gotta get that done eventually.

I still see quite a few artists still do traditional  flinters and  ruaidri are two I can think of who do mostly traditional.

While I still do traditional I just don't post it as much cause the scanner always seems to kill the colors.

I always had that problem, too. I don't know if there's some kind of color correcting software that you could run traditional art through? Though even a picture might work with good enough lighting...

yeah right now i'm printer/scanner/copierless so I have to work with my phone cam which is nice but not NICE

Scans of photos and traditional art always have to be color-corrected. That's why scanners have for a long time included image/photo editing software of some sort.

As a point of trivia, VCL (remember them?) instituted its presentation requirements because too many people were just chucking raw scans onto the site with no editing/cleanup whatsoever. They looked like smudge-riddled crud, and tended to discourage people from visiting the site, which prompted the rule change (as well as the requirement that you demonstrate knowing how to clean your scans when signing up for an account)

There's always room for art. Period. It doesn't matter what or how you do it. Creativity always has a place.

thank you

What Dragoneer said.

Personally, I'm in poverty myself at the moment, but once I'm back on my feet...

its not even a beg for commissions. Its more like opening up the front page and going

... oh... i ... dont know that i fit in here anymore.

Oh, I dunno. Check out   Anbessa ,   Simonov ,   rjbartrop ,   baroncoon ,   sinaherib ,   graue_wolfe ,   swiftcutter ,   ghj103 ...

You are most assuredly NOT alone!

I hope there is. Everyone seems to want the same digital brushy looking stuff, and that's just not my forte. I'm in between digital iPad Pro art and traditional.

I have tried digital. Tablets weird me out. i've done stylus and phone too. Its just not my thing really.

I like the meaty feeling of doing it by hand. i like the look of markers vs pencils. I want to learn to combine them.

I want to make things look like they do in my head and i know thats through practice.

Also have your hubby meats text me. I need to speak with him and i keep... not braining when he's avalible

Yeah, I hear you. I've been through five Wacoms (and ultimately gave up on them) since there's too great a screen/hand disparity for me with coordination. The iPad is changing that thankfully, but still... It's totally different with techniques and I love the visceral feel, lack of battery power, and technique cultivation you can only get with traditional media. I can only really get that 'in my head' vision when I do lighting in digital work, but with real media, like my recent tigress picture that I sold- that's the result of 16 years of struggling and growing as a trad artist, and I hear you 110% when it comes to traditional. Also, the digital market seems to be bottoming out, while some of the good traditional artists are still in demand. It's interesting following that over the course of a decade or so in this subculture.

:3 Will do! *hugs*

Your absence may have had a factor as well. Have a look through your list of watchers and see how many people they're watching. Some of them no doubt have hundreds or thousands of artists on watch. You may have watchers who don't even know you're returned because they haven't caught up to the pics you posted upon resuming activity here. I know I've personally seen people accessing their FA accounts (at conventions) who have four and five-digit entries in their submission notifications. My activity here has been unbroken since joining in 2005, and I still see new +faves from longtime watchers that lag the post date by weeks and sometimes months.

And there's also that age-old (well since digital became viable on typical consumer-grade computers) factor that traditional requires regular infusions of dedicated supplies ($$) and it's difficult to recover from mistakes once you've started inks/color. The difficulty and additional effort/skillset doesn't register with/isn't appreciated by the majority of non-artists (recall all the posts and Youtube videos from artists complaining about non-artists chronically under-estimating how much work goes into their output). I know I've spent about $120 on a 160-marker set (Touch Three, via AliExpress) and have been lugging them to conventions for 2-3 years now, and can count on my fingers the number of times I've had occasion to use them in Artist's Alley. I also have a 120-color set of Prisma pencils, and literally no spare time at all to learn to use them properly since I'm so far behind on personal artwork I've penciled that I want to color digitally.

*stares at my collection of crayola twist up pencils and sweats in cheap artistry*

I do understand what your saying and this feedback helps me as well.

I"m not in a good place mentally and its crashing down in every avenue I try to use as constructive escape.

All the hand drawn traditional art please :3

It's your art. Draw it the way YOU want to draw it! Use the medium YOU want to use!

Digital is easy. There's a steep learning curve to get good but it's easy to get started with the basics and everyone here has a computer anyway. So it's a lot cheaper than buying paper and pencils and pens for most people.
That's why there's so much digital.
There are a LOT of traditional artists but they're a niche purely because there's a flood of non digital. If you look around you'll find that a lot of the top 100 FA artists are doing traditional.

I'm a traditional artist, and I'm doing OK. And it's NOT because I let other people tell me how I should do MY damn art.

I'll tell you this, opening up my FA and seeing some new, traditional piece by one of my favorite people in the world, has made my FA experience about a thousand times brighter. We still have your magnets on our fridge and they have always made me smile. I'm glad your back and I hope you continue to find reasons to stay.

Beyond that, yeah... it's the holidays. People's bank accounts are all tied up, that or they're waiting for Steam to open the flood gates ^^;;

i feel it it is easier to pick up digital from the start since you got that magic undo button.. as time progresses more and more people come screwing the ratio

for the lack of commissions i think you've stated it yourself: you've been gone a long while, people moved on thus your audience shrank. back then you were uploading art consistently and had your popular comic to act as a magnet. starting anew is gonna be hard but not impossible!

ANYWAY
what neer said is true. theres always a place for art! None of your art pieces is unwelcome!

In general: Welcome back ♥

I like traditional art, I don't think a lot of people realise how hard it is to do. :)

I think there is definitely a spot for traditional. I personally like that tactile sensation of pencil on paper over trying to work on a screen or a tablet. Don't give up on it!

Agree with Dragoneer. 100%! Heck, I still have that super cute fLoRiDa picture of Talon you did for me years ago. I take it to every convention in a little plastic sleeve on my lanyard. And everyone's always commenting on how cute it is.

The feel of traditional is much more satisfying than digital, even if it is so much easier to remove mistakes digitally X3

That said, I love your traditional works. *baps self*

I just recently bought a tablet, but have yet to figure out how to use it. Can see the draw...
(har, har, draw)
...since the markers I use are getting so expensive. The tech digital works with is improving quickly, so in a way, is probably a lot like back when transportation was taking a transition from trains or the usual horse and buggy to automobiles... there's been some quirks, not everybody can make that stretch, not yet, but it's real easy to see that it's a growing trend. Will be interesting to see what happens in the next 20 or 30 years.

That said, I'm still def a traditional media artist here.

Of course there is!
Traditional is always great to see. You don't need any tech to draw things, Just a pencil and some paper.