First, drop the snarky tone: you know nothing about me. Approaching me like that doesn’t win you an argument and it just makes me antagonistic to your lack of capacity to discuss like a civil human being. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

It doesn’t seem like this artist is ever working away from pictures, though. He doesn’t seem to be doing stuff for which there’s not a preexisting static model to work from, which is the point other people are making. The artist is damn good, but it’s questionable whether he can paint a subject independent of pictures…

I wish boredom were the most common issue for me. For me, the hardest thing is a simple lack of belief. As an amateur writer, there are so many other things to spend time on and so much else that I’m good at that I frequently stop to wonder why I would waste the necessary time just to rise above the threshold of the…