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…