/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6706190
The classifications or techniques don't matter to an average consumer, whether it's painted, pillowshading, gouache, painted with their own dick or whatever the fuck.
What they have in common in their work is semi-realism or a very close attempt to replicate real life; "It just looks like a real photograph"; that's what the average consumer thinks.

And what else do they have in common?
Maybe the millions of followers on social media? Their huge financial success? Their billions of copycats getting some of their success simpyl by copying them?
People singing their praise and memeing them to be the epitome of high quality art?
Drawing the same anime fanart pinup over and over?
>inb4 crab seethe ur jelly
I am using them only as an example to my point, being that anything that borders to realism, is automatically and unquestionably considered high quality by the layman hence why most artists tend to go for realism.