/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3964588
>fantastic tradeoff
Yeah! It's not my fault you're staying buttmad about it.
>Except you need about 2K$ worth of hardware and software every 3 years without including any sorts of bills and services.
My five year desktop has been running the Adobe Creative Suite and Clip Studio Paint without any hiccups. The former I've pirated on numerous occasions, the latter I actually paid for within the past year. I've invested, and it's paid off; are you incapable of imagining a working artist making ends meet?
>The best pencils in the world both cost 1-2 dollars a pop (mitsubishi hi uni and blackwing) paper's cheap as hell, enough paint to last you years of heavy use would still easily only be in the hundreds tops.
A box of the pencils you described range from $12-25 a pop; I'm sure you can buy them individually for the price you mentioned but the nearest arts & crafts store for me is three hours away. An individual stylus may cost much more to replace (which shouldn't happen nearly as often as it would for pens, pencils or even brushes, if at all) but the nibs still last longer in my experience. It's just more economical. Also, archival paper isn't cheap in the slightest; how long have you been painting, anyway? A couple hundred dollars worth of paint wouldn't last very long for a professional painter, let alone an emerging gallery artist.
>but still a fraction of digital prints.
Where the hell are you getting your digital prints made? You can get okayish prints for literal pocket change at Kinko's for fucks sake.
>nani?
You don't have to have all those things; my point was obvious: digital = portable. Art is easier store when the medium is largely immaterial.
>Bruh i just wonna draw what's this trash?
You'd think a "trad chad" would know a thing or two about art history but I guess that isn't the case here.