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With the varieties of apps that pertains to photo editing, it is true,,, you can do like a professional using just an iPad. In this medium, you can create your own artwork. I am also using my iPad to design different ipad cases for our consumer.

Why the heck not?

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I think the transmission of an artist's thoughts and feelings to others is achieved most directly through the brush, paint, chalk, the pen, pencil. etc. No one has convinced me that the emotions able to be conveyed in this fashion can ever be accomplished electronically. Superlative drafting, yes. Art, no. Didn't we read recently that DaVinci used over 30 layers of glaze on the Mona Lisa? Wonder if iPad can do that? Will a mindless machine ever play the horn like Mile Davis.

I think I use Photoshop and numerous other computer applications to lay out color and composition before I ever put brush to canvas.

I`ve also seen some pretty inspiring things done with this IPad in the creating of art.

This is a 7 minute time lapsed video of David Kassan rendering an incredible portrait with his fingers and the Brushes app on the IPad.

This video was enough to make me want one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLP4nbAVA4

I don`t think traditional artists are going to abandon their mediums for this pad but it is a great tool for raw creation and any new useful tool is welcome to me.

I think that artists of all people should remain open minded about new techniques and ideas (I dare say the wheel was crticised when it was invented).
I have worked quite a bit on a graphics tablet for illustration work in the past, but I must admit that it didn't give me the pleasure of working directly with the medium on a "real" surface... I paint quite a bit with my fingers...
... but I will remain open minded on the subject of ipads

I agree with others who have already said, it is about the artist not the medium. I personally use natural media and digital. It depends upon my mood or intended outcome.

One thing I can says that you lose with digital is the one of a kind aspect of a work. You lose the surface quality that you get with a painting, but I don't necessarily think that lessens the quality of the art, just the collectibility.

It opens up a world of different possibilities that are different from other media. Not better or worse, just different.

There was a time when painters were criticized for not mixing their own paints. Oh those modern tubes make lazy painters. :)

Bring on the iPads and bring on the paints!

I use both traditional media and Photoshop but would not switch over to just digital.
I enjoy the feeling of painting, the mess, the texture and the experience.

Some people may find digital painting a great medium--but I do not think it will replace the brush and paint.

I have already tried on several artist programs to do things and I can not get the color and TEXTURES the way I do by blending and shading my own colors. I do not just paint out of the tube. I blend and shade my colors before putting on a palette and then while painting mix some more.

I might try it to just say that I've tried it, BUT, I won't like it. What happens if someone steals your ipad, or if there is a power failure. Then how easy would it be then for someone to pirate your designs then....

I have used the paint programs on my computer many times.At first the results were very crude,however with a bit of practice they took on a life of their own and were very respectable.would I ever attempt to sell them as fine art?Not a Chance!While fun to learn art created this way has practical uses ,but as far as I,m concerned not something I would be proud to hang on my wall........The most practical use for this medium is to be with a computer and with out any art supplies and to be in need of a reference to do a painting at a later time !I would notbsubject those who feel differently to criticism,however I would never in my mind consider them artists in the true sense of the word!In no mistaken way do I feel it is fine art,it may have its uses for some,but for me ,again only as a reference tool.I will always cherish my BRUSHES AND WATERCOLOR PAINTS as my medium of choice.All others may do as they please!,,,,,,,,JMS

All of my art today is digital. I have found that the brushes I can create with Painter software is far beyond anything I could ever produce otherwise. Think of it this way: When musical recordings we first introduced the records were large and the arms heavy. To listen you inserted a needle into the arm of the record player. Then came 78's. Then reel to reel. Then 8 track, then cassettes , then CD's which were now digital, to iTunes. It has allowed recoding artists to move quickly into new horizons that were never dreamed if 70 years ago. The same with professional photography.. it has evolved into the digital age. So it is with digital paintings. The opportunities to explore and produce are endless. I have been painting with Painter for close to seven years now and I remain motivated to produce art as I haver dreamed.

I think artists need to set aside any moral judgement and focus on the creative process - which is not limited to any one medium - if it was would we have evolved. Technology is there to be used, whether its Photoshop or iPad art. Of all people we as artists should acknowledge that along with writers and musicians we are most often the people in history who have pushed the envelope.

i think however people create art is however people create art. David Hockney and many other artists use a fax machine. Others recycle. Others use photography. Many use digital. I started with digital then turned to the canvas, others do it the other way around. Its not how you create but what you create that matters. And its not about ipad, its about the artist.

Artists are know for experimenting....and perhaps during a market like this, it is a form of just that.

Even when taking classes.....we are known for curiosity and trying things out...

But long range......I would say a huge
"NOT". We are more likely to take what we want from the experience and go back to our drawing boards and easels.

Sounds like media hype to me!

I despise the use of any kind of media aside from the traditional to create artwork. It is a bastardization of the Humanities.

first of all apple no have brain.

second, perhaps illustrators or artists who depict conventional images will use the ipad, but real artists, those who actually have something to say and who involve themselves physically in the process of painting or drawing will not want to use sterile materials to "create".

there is great joy in feeling the paint leave the brush, the graphite stick to the paper, that can never be had with any electronic objects.

apart from which there are decided limitations which should be apparent to any consumer of digital art or music - namely the pixels, which are hard-edged rectangles that hint at their structure even in a large image or sound.

already people are abandoning cds in favour of analogue records because digital, while clean, does not sound human; you will find the same with digital images, whether still or moving or "art".