Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills

mosel-saar-ruwer writes "A recent conference, hosted by UC-Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, sought to 'examin[e] the need and role for drawing today in the design professions and fine arts'. In this Reuters summary, via C-NET, the participants seem to agree that the emergence of sophisticated graphics software has coincided with a startling decline in the basic drawing skills of university students. Apparently teenaged boys don't need to practice drawing their nudes when they can just download them off the web."

Comments

Shocking stuff!

[Expert Determination]

I've also heard that modern artists don't know how to mix their own paints from animal dung, blood and dirt.

Re:Happens every time.

[Jozer99]

Or the invention of pencilin drastically reduced the skills of the average person at digging a 6 foot deep hole.

Re:duno about this

[caluml]

I've been a computer geek for 20 years. Back when it was all about communication skills I still conversed with sufficent skills on a very regular basis. Today, my conversational skills are just about shot. I'm having to re-learn basic human interaction. It's embarrassing, but that's what years of masturbating in front of the computer will get you if you don't keep up on the basics. So, I don't know what the details of their study are, but I can personally vouch for the validity of the concept.