Often it happens to who as me works mainly with the digital and technology to receive request of work to show also classical skills of drawing, art and design through traditional techniques with pencil, tempera, water-colour, paper, canvas and prototyping.
Who as me comes from old school of Architecture and Engineering where it used pencil, china and sheets of drawing we find often the request unusual also if we understand the necessity of model-making to show the projects.
From the artistic point of view, this request seems more an attempt to call into question the skills of this type of professionalism tied to digital and technologies.
That does not alter the fact that this request can be satisfy if there are some valid motivations as a request from client for projects tied to some particular cases of design.
When it comes to art, it’s necessary to watch at the question of traditional and new technologies with a view to aesthetic and chromatic research or to a path of professional growth.
There are digital and computer graphic artists that they use innovative techniques and technologies to create artworks in many cases best of that traditional and more interesting for technique and aesthetic and chromatic researches.
Independently from the used technique an artist has its path of growth on an its stylish research, a path of training that it evolves its style.
The question in these cases focus on budget at disposal for the artist and the availability of clients, but I would add also the attendance of patrons willing to invest on the capabilities of new media artists and to provide opportunities of enhancement.
Usually the digital is appreciated in web graphic, advertising and video but when it’s about art we always are reluctant to value or request artwork of this kind.
For many artistic events yet, it prefers the traditional or the conceptual art with installation rather than new media relegating these last at launch events of new technologies.
For all these sectors of digital type it forgets that after the work at computer it’s necessary to pass at prints and in many cases to the production of artwork in fact.
An example are the photography and the design but also many of technological installations around.
In the event of exhibition the photos need to be printed as other digital artwork or in the event of creative coding these need to be realized with prints or installations to be able to use at audience.
For design then it’s necessary the prototyping or realization full-blown to be seen the feasibility and to show at sector specialist or to produce.

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