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@Clarkie**
So it's not real either way then, and kinda pointless in asking the way you did :sneaky:

Technically it's still cheating and the artist still doesn't get the respect the girl with the pencil does.  It's still incredible work, but it's not as hard to work with painting apps as it is to work with real media.

The biggest bummer of all is that the masterpiece is totally worthless because no 'original' exists and never will.  That's what you get when you cheat.  Put in the effort and work with real 'tangible' products and you get a real 'tangible' and sellable product out of it.  If that were real media it would be worth quite a bit of money, but being digital, it's absolutely worthless unless you're doing it on comission or stuff like that.

So anyway, as you've jumped from 3D to 2D all of a sudden, I'd say things are looking up for you as an artist - wise choice.  The only thing you need to decide now is whether wasting your time on a digital device would as wise as doing it in real media.

You shouldn't need to ask that one though