Do you still need to draw when you have photography?

Let me explain this problem to you from a utilitarian point of view:

The picture you see has two main functions, one is to record and the other is to express.

The original function of photography is to record, and its rapidity, accuracy and effectiveness make up for the deficiency of painting. Later, after people generally accepted photography, they found that it could be expressed by recording. But we have to say that photography is the art of subtraction, and its expression process is greatly limited. Photographers and technical engineers have to try their best to get rid of all kinds of unnecessary things, and the result is still not ideal, because photographers always encounter "real objects" that are consistent with his thoughts.

The main function of painting is expression. There are many ways of expression, and painting is just one of them. Before photography was born, painting took into account the function of image recording. He was born with words, which have two functions: recording and expressing. People and painting complement each other, and together with music, they are isomorphic and become the foundation of art. Painting is the visual expression of the artist's thoughts, and its expressive force is incomparable to photography.

Maybe what you see is the advantages of photography over painting in image recording. If you want to say substitution, it is far from it.

In addition, you have to admit the fact that if you want to be a top photographer and engage in photography for a long time, you must learn painting properly, because the evaluation standard of photos is largely from the perspective of painting art, and the techniques of exaggeration, contrast, density, color, light and shade in painting have formed a huge system. Photography is only part of learning from it. On the other hand, successful painting artists do not necessarily need to learn photography. In fact, many painters can't photograph either. More interestingly, many photographers are engaged in photography because they like art, but they can't learn painting well.