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Does art have to be hard? Museums and art critics tell us that a piece of abstract art that looks like a deranged child's scribblings is worth millions of dollars. An abstract artist can talk for days about the great decision making process that went into putting a circle in a square and what it means to mankind. A 7th grader can do the same thing with considerably less philosophizing. The "artist" wants us to believe that it was a lot of work and that's why it should cost so much. The child did it with less forethought and more instinct and it wasn't hard and can probably only find a parent to rave about how wonderful it is. I've never considered drawing hard. I've been doing it since I was a kid. Although I haven't done very much over the last couple decades, I can still sketch out a decent drawing in a half hour. I was never good at finishing a drawing because I'd lose the spontaneity of the sketch. That's one of the reasons that I started turning to Poser. There's more work in the beginning to get a good image, but the rendering part is considerably easier. I've seen talented artists paint a magnificent scenery in an hour. It didn't look too hard, but I can't do the same thing with anywhere near that level of skill. If art is hard, it's usually because of limitations of the medium. Poser's lights are annoying and the preview doesn't often match the final image. Posing a 3D figure on a 2D screen is difficult and makes me yearn for virtual reality gloves that would let me drag a Poser figure's arm and move it where I want it to be in three dimensions. I hope the image I did shows that something fairly nice can be created without sweating Poser for dozens of hours. It was a bit weird starting with a pose and developing an image around it. I initially started with a different pose and found that the link, in the readme, was no longer good, so I had to start over with a different pose. In the end, art is each individual's personal vision. It doesn't have to be hard or easy.

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