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Fan Art Law
Whatever way you intend to welcome in 2013, I hope you're surrounded by love and that you do it safely!
Just bumping this journal because it means a lot to me!
As you may be aware, we are in the process of revisiting gallery descriptions and making sure that all of our submissions categories make sense and are useful to you. We also want to make sure that categories are mutually exclusive so that people don't submit their deviations to the wrong galleries/categories by mistake.
This process brought out a very interesting conversation among some members of the CV team. Specifically, we started talking about what, fundamentally, the difference between digital drawing and digital painting was. Does it depend on brush strokes? Is there some technique used on one but not the other? What sets the two apart?
. . . OR, are they essentially the same thing? 
Here's what the submission guidelines currently say about digital drawing and digital painting:
Digital Drawing: Digital art drawings created using computer-aided drawing tools or digital techniques.
Digital Painting: Digital art using digital painting & airbrushing techniques.
. . . not helpful, right?
What are your thoughts?
We're talking to all of you hard-core digital artists out there now. How do YOU see this discussion? Is there REALLY a difference between digital drawing and digital painting? If so, what is it? You can respond to this blog, of course, but you can also respond to our poll here.
Thanks guys! dA rocks. 
But when I submit a piece to a group as Digi Painting, it'll get rejected BUT if its digi drawing its not ... go figure?
Now a drawing i consider it as something that uses a dry media, pencil, pen, charcoal etc and a painting is something that uses a wet media, acrlyics, oils, watercolours.
now digitally this makes no sense!
I also lean towards Digi drawing primarliy because my images look static, whereas some digi paintings can look fliud. its a tedious link at best.
I think many devaints think of the catagories as tiered, such as digital pianting is better than digital drawing but that an assumation of mine.
I got told because "half" of my piece was line art, that it was a drawing. I don't consider one hour of lineart to be "half" my piece when I spend four hours painting afterward. The time it takes to draw typically takes up a fourth of my piece, more or less. I use watercolor, airbrush, and marker tools in SAI and I do not merely cell-shade. When I worked traditionally with watercolors, I'd ink it when I was done I was still praised for my painting ability.
Talk about mixed mediums. If could just stop at 'digital art' without having to choose drawing or painting I would.
But if its suddenly a painting instead of a drawing when I remove the lineart layer, when its the same coloring technique no matter what, that's just silly.
And painting means (for me) to use brushes, playing around with colors, colorblending or even rough brushstrokes but not to create line for line, even though styles can change from hard to very smooth. (for example a landscape created with oils is obviously a painting and when you create something similar digitally you would also call it painting in my opinion)
But I think for many people it's both kinda the same - digital and tradtional
And sometimes it could be really hard to choose, because some people mix it strongly.