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RE: Analogue Katharsisdrill - the crow quill pen
All hail analog media. I don't think I would ever buy a print made from digital as art for my walls. I prefer art that has been touched by the artist for display, but then, I'm old-fashioned when it comes to art.
It is two very different things, and I understand your inclination towards the handmade.
Digitial is basically a new form of repro, but to me there is a big difference between an arbitrary colour reproduction and one where the artist has been aware of each pixel. I have made original prints in off-set by creating each colour channel as a separate black/white image. One of the reasons I prefer to work in black and white is the same: that I can control everything except print method and paper type.
I get that. It's more about easy reproduceability and the artist's hand on the paper I bought that makes the difference for me.
I am in no way consistent in these things; I do own and buy signed wood and lino prints and etchings, and, more rarely, stone and screen prints, but never offset, laser, or inkjet prints. Consider this I must 8-).
To me the most important thing if it was made for that exact media. Comics for example are made for print.
That made me think of an example: I have a numbered and signed silk-screen print of a harbour scene drawn by the graphic novelist Ted Benoît; I would never have bought it had it been an offset print. I'm not entirely sure why not, to be honest.
Screen print is much better quality than offset. It has thicker colour layers and as it has a much lower resolution, so you have to make it work in other ways than just throwing halftones in it. This mean that the artist or at least a knowledgeable repro man has prepared it for the technique (here probably the artists himself.)
I have a lot of fantastic screen print artworks made by friends of mine. As an artistic media it has some special advantages that is very fascinating to work with. I have made lots of print in this technique.
Off-set is harder. In reality it is like lithography, which is the technique where you can get closest to the hand of the artist (that was clumsy) - but each little thing you do on the stone is recorded in high detail - it is one of my favourite methods. But even though the technique is the same and you actually can work directly on the plates, what you get in offset print is normally just a repro of a photo... and here we are pretty far away from the artist's hand.
I don't care for such things either.