09-26-2021, 01:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-26-2021, 01:43 PM by rich2005.
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First of all Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing application and the equivalent free vector drawing application is Inkscape.
Gimp is a raster (bitmap) editing application, you can use it for drawing from scratch or say editing photographs. It is not the only free application for art, many use Krita and for drawing MyPaint.
If you can use Gimp (or Krita or Inkscape) for artwork then you gain all the fundamental skills, and depending on talent produce work just as good as anything else.
However that alone is not the whole story. Custom and what has been used in the past and will be used for evermore comes into play.
You use a Mac, Go to our local newspaper and the art department uses Mac's and Photoshop. Everyone else in the building uses Windows, but the art department has always used Mac & Photoshop, never to change.
A friend is a university lecturer, He writes a report. Has to use MS Office and diagrams using Adobe Illustrator. That is what has always been used. It is expected. All his students have to use the same, and so the cycle continues.
Your art teacher is correct and so is the other advisor. Get going using Gimp and develop some skills. If you are going to invest in anything, get a Wacom drawing tablet. If you go to art college, you will have the basic skills to adapt to other applications and Adobe is not the only player, Corel Draw is widely used in the graphics industry.
Check out those other applications mentioned
Krita - http://www.krita.org
MyPaint http://mypaint.org
Inkscape https://inkscape.org/
Gimp is a raster (bitmap) editing application, you can use it for drawing from scratch or say editing photographs. It is not the only free application for art, many use Krita and for drawing MyPaint.
If you can use Gimp (or Krita or Inkscape) for artwork then you gain all the fundamental skills, and depending on talent produce work just as good as anything else.
However that alone is not the whole story. Custom and what has been used in the past and will be used for evermore comes into play.
You use a Mac, Go to our local newspaper and the art department uses Mac's and Photoshop. Everyone else in the building uses Windows, but the art department has always used Mac & Photoshop, never to change.
A friend is a university lecturer, He writes a report. Has to use MS Office and diagrams using Adobe Illustrator. That is what has always been used. It is expected. All his students have to use the same, and so the cycle continues.
Your art teacher is correct and so is the other advisor. Get going using Gimp and develop some skills. If you are going to invest in anything, get a Wacom drawing tablet. If you go to art college, you will have the basic skills to adapt to other applications and Adobe is not the only player, Corel Draw is widely used in the graphics industry.
Check out those other applications mentioned
Krita - http://www.krita.org
MyPaint http://mypaint.org
Inkscape https://inkscape.org/