Professional graphic artist for over 15 years. Trained as classical animator ...and there are things that do differentiate an artist from someone who "makes pictures". Art is an expression designed to carry with it more than the sum of its parts. While anybody can put a naked Vicky in a temple, it would take an artist who understands lighting, posing, POV, atmosphere, expression, etc to even hope to turn it into art. Now while people do not have to be professionally trained to be an artist, many have a natural feel for it (and even most who do train start off with a natural talent as well)...and people do not have to be employed in the field to be an artist either. An artist is just one who understands how all the elements in image work together to build something more than the sum of the parts. Rawnrr