I don't consider myself an artist either, but most of my renders I think to be kinda nifty.  Also, I think that I've put enough personal endeavor and modification into my figures as to qualify as NOT being out of the box, or bought straight from the nearest super market.  The cherries may have come from a can, but I've stirred them around with fresh mint grown in my garden, added other spices that I picked up here and there, so I thnk that I can declare a certain amount of originality to my work.
Just today, I took a Gerald day prop, the Georgian Window room, and ran it through UV Mapper Pro to remap the walls base boards so as to take some Victorian Wall paper textures that I picked up as a freebie for another prop altogether.  Then later, I took a copy of the same prop and loaded it into 3ds Mas and knocked a hole in the wall where the Window was so as to created a doorway, so that with both copies of the prop in my Poser Pose Room, I have a complete 4 sided room, with a door on one side and a window on the other.  Now I assembling tables and chairs so as to make it a Victorian Guesthouse dining room.
But of course, for the purist, none of this is art, just craft.  But fine craftsmanship isn't a bad ideal either.
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