I think you've both got the wrong end of the stick.

I'm not knocking CG and I'm not knocking Poser; I like CG and I like Poser and I'll never stop playing around with this stuff.  The point I was making is from an artistic point of view.  Why would I be better off paying out a constant stream of cash for various software packages that fail me every time I do it?

Why would I choose that route to produce "art" if I could do the same with just pencil and paper and have a real physical piece of art to show for it?

My art doesn't have purpose because I don't have any art.  The reason I don't have any art is because CG attracted me away from real media a long time ago.  One thing I do know is that if CG didn't exist, I would still be drawing and I'd be a heck of a lot better now than I was then.

It's just as easy to visit YouTube and learn how to draw anatomy as it is to visit YouTube and learn how to sculpt it in ZBrush.  It's just as easy to cheat by tracing an outline as it is to load-up a figure and trace over that.  It's cheaper to use real media than to keep up with software.  It's better to have a physical piece of art (no matter how bad) after you've put your heart into producing it.

It's better to be in total control of what you're creating.

Nothing but your own skill will ever come between you and a piece of paper.  In the world or real physical art, software, bugs, crashes, and incompatibility simply don't exist.  The image I posted was to demonstrate that you don't need sculpting, painting, dynamics, or even a computer or camera to produce a photo.

I was not suggesting that you shouldn't use those things.

My point was that all you need is a pencil, paper, eraser and practice.  CG doesn't get you out of the talent requirement, it merely changes how it's done.  CG will always have reliability issues, but real media never will.  That "photo" was created without any computer at all, nevermind the rest of the 3D tech that would be required to produce something as convincing as that.

Anyway, this has gone way off-topic again (my fault), sorry about that.