Dig your own clay -- don't forget to ourify it -- wouldn't want any odd bits and pieces to come in. Shape your own glass. Make your own paints, your own brushes, your own canvas, and then be sure to grow the tree, cut it to proper length, sand it nicely, dry it properly, and then fasten it together with brads and staples you dug the metals for yourself, smelted them yourself, alloyed them yourself... I can hunt and skin better than my husband -- but I go to the grocery store to buy my groceries. I've lived a life where if I wanted to learn something, I could -- but I've never turned down help along the way. It is the modern age, after all. There is nothing wrong with creating your own content. There is nothing wrong with using what other people create. And this is renderosity, an artist's site -- for all sorts of art -- both the kind required to make things, and the kind required to use them :)

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)