I'm a traditional artist and often get buried within the category because it's saturated with not just digital art but digital anime art. It's also frustrating when I search for traditional artists and painters to support and raid. A separate category for traditional art is not only a good idea but it is a necessity for traditional artists to be discovered and grow.

My husband and I both used to stream traditional art. At some point he would have an average of 20 or more watching his streams, and his streams continued to grow every month. Covid hit, twitch took on a huge influx of streamers, and viewers. But the art category became overwhelmed with digital art. He struggled to find people to raid, traditonal art streams struggled to find each other, and viewers stopped using the category because they weren't interested in digital. The community that he and his fellow streamers built over 3 or more years was dismantled in a few months. It broke my heart when he stopped streaming art. I think if he saw a new traditional art category for his paintings, or sculptures, it might be enough for him to return, and bring back some of his community that he keeps in touch with on discord. But without it, I don't really see him coming back to attempt to be visible in a sea of digital.

Absolutely agree! Digital art is beautiful but it's so hard to find people who stream traditional art in the art category because there is so much digital art. Also as a creator it's so much harder to be found by your target audience compared to streaming other things in other categories (like crafting in makers&crafting). I tried streaming traditional art before but it left me with a feeling of almost being invisible.
I think both digital artists and traditional artists can benefit from a category split of the art category.

I agree. This is my 6th year streaming as an oil painter; traditional mediums like painting, sculpture, and drawing deserve their own distinction from digital art. Viewers and streamers alike will have an easier time finding their preferred medium.

It's become increasingly critical to assign due distinction to appropriately characterize the different forms of art expressed by the creators on the platform. The formation of traditional art as its own category would be enriching for viewers and creators alike.

YES!! I'm a traditional artist on twitch. It's so hard finding an audience, because I'm lost in the endless digital artist streamers. Digital art is great, but it different than traditional. I agree there should be a separate category.

Ditto to the two comments below.

I mirror AchromaticKitten's sentiments. Wading through a sea of digital art to find a traditional artist is exhausting and could easily be remedied with a traditional art category.

I have been in the twitch art community for about 18 months, specifically traditional art. And every day (not kidding) traditional art seekers lament on stream and in chat about having to sift through so many digital art streams to find the traditional art streams.

Though both valid art mediums, the difference between digital vs. traditional vs. within the traditional (physical/hands on art) community (ie painting vs. fiber arts) is vast not only in the on screen vs. physical aspect, but in the general community vibe and focus of the two artistic areas.

But most clearly what separates the two is that both communities seek themselves out to learn techniques and about the mediums. Though digital art is beautiful and often astounding, I am not going to gleen much about how to create physical art and integrate that information in my own creative processes from watching a digital artist create art. And vice versa for a digital artist.