Reply #11: I admit that I felt the same way towards digital art.

[gatorboy]

I've worked as a graphic designer for over 10 years and used to consider digital illustration to be beneath the work you could produce with and actual pencil or brush. And I agree that most of that discrimination was due to the fact that I simply didn't know how to push the software to give me the results I wanted. I think the mouse itself is also part of the problem. Here's a piece I did a few months back using Photoshop 7:



And I can't stress enough that if you want to really see what you can accomplish with digital art software, and you're serious about it, purchase a Wacom drawing tablet. Compared with a mouse, it's night and day.