Just to add my quarter pence worth, I used to be a "real artist". Pencil, pen, charcoal, pastels. Painted in watercolors, gauche, oils, acrylics, lacquers on paper, canvas, and wood (as well as dungeree [sic] jackets and t-shirts for money). Used palette knives, brushes, and airbrushes. Even played with silk screening a little. Although I did pretty well, my favorite medium, oils, caused me health problems. There is no medium like it, although they have improved acrylics alot since then. In other words, I had to stop using them and because of it, could not achieve the quality in any other medium. For this reason, I shelved my artistic tendencies for years and went on to other things (guitar, computers, programming, technical drawing and design). That is until now. Now I don't need to mess with dangerous or ill-suited mediums. I can transfer my ideas onto the computer in either 2D or 3D (or 4D or stereoscopics). Blackhearted has it right. It doesn't matter which tools or mediums you use, they all require expertise, time, and vision in order for you to create your invisioned artworks. If that doesn't convince anyone, just check out the work done by the masters and experienced artists working in 2D and 3D on computers as compared to beginners or people like me, just transfering over from traditional mediums. There's a difference. Kuroyume

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