Famed graphic designer, Milton Glaser, has more than once urged designers to draw ideas first before going near the computer. While this doesn't need to be a universal rule, it's a good one to explore as you improve your digital art skills. Remembering your pencil and paper, and observing how your buy an essay work is different when you start with that, could lead you to richer insights about design, and your graphic design voice, in particular. Here are a few reasons incorporating hand-drawing into your process may make you a better digital artist.

Drawing by Hand is More Immersive, More Direct

Even if you are using a pen tablet, you are still separated from the work you're creating. And while the cheese sandwich you ate last week may have left a few aromatic crumbs under the keys of your keyboard, it's not the same as the subtle smells of graphite, ink and paper, which offer their own unique associations.

Drawing by Hand Connects You With a Creative Heritage

There is a continuum you join when you decide to create art in any medium, with any materials. For better or worse, whatever you design, draw or build, you are a part of it. If you desire to tap this heritage, then you must touch paper and inhale a little pencil dust.

There's Something About Gesture

Whether they are energetic and expansive or restrained and controlled, your very human gestures have the power to reach through your drawings and touch others.

Your gestures are an important part of what makes your artwork unique. If we are creating something with pure geometric forms, then no, gesture won't be needed or wanted: plenty of extraordinary artwork has been created without a trace of it. Still, the wavers and pulls in your drawn lines are part of what make you you, and while the computer can hide them, your pencil does just the opposite. New tablet interfaces can now capture a lot of our natural gestures as we draw, but not yet with the same depth and subtlety as a pencil physically pressing its graphite onto paper.

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