Traditional v.s. Digital Illustration

As a bit of a book Geek, as soon as I realised that Illustration was the thing for me, I quickly started ordering any book I could find featuring Illustrations and things about the business of it. Having a look through all these books, particularly the books filled with other illustrators' work in it, I have noticed that almost all of them use some sort of digital aspect in their work.

An awful lot of illustrations I have seen are completely digital and produced through the means of Illustrator and Photoshop. Personally, I have never really been interested in the digital way of creating art work and as I receive no CAD training at all at Uni, I probably will never experience it. I can vaguely work Photoshop and this is probably the only thing that I've ever computer edited that has turned out half decent and all I did was scan the original in and change the colours..My concern however, is that maybe there isn't room in the Illustration industry for someone who just uses traditional media any more, and that the digital age really has taken over. (Wow, I sound old, I'm only 20!) Most illustrators using traditional media cater specifically to children's illustration, which is something that I am not particularly passionate about. Even in books like "Hand to Eye" the computer is still used in some sort of way. The only way I use it is to scan images in to put it on DA and here.

Personally, I'm glad that I'm not interested in experimenting in things such as Illustrator and Photoshop as it means that I can do things like this...

...and have a brilliant time! A much better time than I would have had bent over a computer for 16 hours at a time (This isn't a dig at people who enjoy that, it's just not quite my thing).

Anyway, I don't mean to rant or anything and I have the greatest respect for people who are able to produce the most amazing works on the computer (And I've seen hundreds of these), I just hope that when I do get out there into the marketing world, that there will still be an interest for what I do.

To end this, I have a request, I would like to post a list of really good illustration books that I've found extremely interesting and useful, but I don't know how to do links on here, could anyone tell me how? Would be greatly appreciated, many thanks.

Jones.