20: Talking about: digital and traditional drawing

Hey peeps! Long time no see!
The objective of this journal is knowing your opinion about a phrase that I read some time ago. I guess there's some people who argue that traditional art is harder than digital, or vice versa, but I'm not particularly interested in that general discussion.
As I mentioned before, some months ago I was browsing some group/image board/I-don't-remember and there was a guy who asked for advice for drawing digitally because he really wanted to get started on it. One of the replies was something like this "learn to draw on paper first, because your skills will always be reflected on how well you can draw traditionally". Sincerely, I had never thought about it that way, but then I realised that, in my case, it made perfect sense.

• But before I tell you about my experience and thoughts, what do you think about it? How often do you draw on paper? When you practise or sketch just for fun, do you do it digitally or traditionally? Does the Ctrl+Z give you more freedom to experiment? Do your traditional drawings and digital drawings look different? Please note that I'm always talking about drawing, not painting. 
  

In my case, if you take a look at my sketchbook, you'll see it's full of trash. Even the best artworks of my gallery resemble almost nothing to their respective sketches that I drew on paper. That is to say, the sketch only seems like a poor attempt at copying the finished artwork; you can't actually see that sketch as the foundation of the last stage of the artwork. For those who don't know, I feel quite uncomfortable drawing digitally so I usually sketch on paper, then scan the drawing and correct it in Photoshop; then I paint it, etc,etc. Well, after reading that anonymous comment, I realised that I make an awfully big amount of digital corrections to my sketches. That is to say, when I draw on paper I make A LOT of serious mistakes, meaning that my real skill is below where I thought it was or below what my artworks show. For quite some time, I pondered on this fact and I realised that maybe that's the reason why the artworks that I finished during the last two years didn't satisfy me, the reason why they lack dynamism, the reason why they lack innovation. As drawing is the foundation of the artwork, no matter how confident I am in my colouring technique, the artwork will always lack that extra spark of creativity if my traditional drawing skills can't live up to my expectations.
So I concluded that I really need heavy practice of traditional drawing (anatomy, proportions, foreshortening, NOSES, etc) before I can properly move on with my improvement. Otherwise, my colouring might get more crispy and nothing else. But hey, I'm not fishing compliments here. I'm actually really happy that I found a potential reason of my lack of true improvement during the last year. Besides, I have some cool pencils now, so I'd like to practise some shading and stuff. 
To sum it up, yes, I agree with the phrase. Drawing traditionally is a very important ingredient to improve. I'm not saying that it's harder to do it traditionally than digitally, I just think it's a very very good exercise.

Thanks for reading!