sorry, but this seems to me like another "but I DO art, too!!!" stomps with feet thread.

but in case it isn't, maybe you can step back from your work in a quite moment and ask yourself some questions:

• if you have a picture in your mind, can you bring it - exactly as envisioned - on your monitor?

• do your pictures look some way similar to all the other Poser stuff?

• do characters in your work look like real, living persons, and not like the thousandth incarnation of V4/M4?

• is there something unique in it, that people can't find elsewhere?

• you've been at CGS, so, can you do something of a quality that would make it into their choice gallery?

Poser's problem is, it works only with premade stuff - stuff that's been sold - and shown - a thousand times. that limits it's use to some point. if you can't get the prop you need - and can't make it yourself - you're screwed. if you want to show a certain type of dress, but can't find it in the market - you can forget it. want to put a stunning landscape in the background? with Poser, well....

Point is, art is something that comes from your mind and soul, not from market resources. In that way Poser is limited, and maybe that's what the so called "elitists" refer to. 

 

(BTW, your "V3" is a 2D drawing, have a look at the artist's website to see how he works ;) :http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/)