Draw Partner...

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Hmmmm, my profession requires me to dispute that claim. The "original" is just in a different media. One that while easily replicated also provides certain challenges to preserve - but let's not derail this into debates about file formats, raster verus vector, and digital preservation.

Well, that might be just the info he needs, though! As to originals, I'm speaking from the point of view of someone who sells original art. Prints have their own value as representations of art of course (which is why I digitally watermark art I put online), but the collectors I work with really want to see that thick paint or those pencil grooves one finds on an original. Even the best giclee can't provide that. And if the piece is created digitally only that first file is original; other than the time-stamp, and correct me if I'm wrong here, aren't all subsequent copies of that file identical to the original?

I realize that not everyone cares, but I work with art collectors who do care.

Finally, I'm not arguing that digitally-created art is a lesser form of art, and I'm not saying that replications don't contain everything important that any given digital piece might possess, and I will acknowledge that endless replicability appeals to my politics-and-art aesthetic.

Ultimately Kevy is right, and whether originals will be scanned and manipulated, or whether the art will be 100% digital, the paramount concern with regard to tools should be the desired outcome: file or print.

Anyway I got this at SIGGRAPH last year: sketch program. Pretty fun and free to try...$175 to buy.

[Moonliner]

Thanks for all the information. Based on Kevy's comments, I went looking for a reasonably priced vector based drawing program that does CMYK. After an exhaustive 10 min search I came up with Xara Extreme at $79.00

Thanks for all the pointers.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

After an exhaustive 10 min search...

How dd we survive before the internet? Sometimes I cannot fathom the reality!