Pencil nostalgia

This was one of these rare moments where I had enough time and patience to sit down and slowly pencil out something I would normally do digitally. I hardly ever touch pencils unless I am at the life drawing class and that, quite frankly, is kind of sad.
Why is it that nowadays everything has to be fully rendered in color? Concept artists and illustrators used pencils, charcoals and other simple mediums for a long time and you know what, they did much better than all that Photoshop crap you see on the net now.
What are your thoughts about this, guys?

Life Painting with Nintendo DS

Here are some paintings from life done with the little magic box named DS. Forest was quite challenging because I had to decide where to put detail and where not.

You can see the process videos here:

FOREST

WOMAN

MAN


Hope you fellaz like it.