/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I'm just glad I used my savings buying productive land instead of comsoomerist crap, and that my parents forced me to pursue art as a hobbie rather than a career path

Do you guys have OC, or do you feel it's too pretentious for your skill level?

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>be me
>rich individual
>decide to get me an anime picture
>since im so rich, i will pay a lumpsome of money an actual genuine artist instead of settling for free/cheap AI
>flex on niggas with AI images with my real genuine one as a mark of quality
>even though you can't REALLY tell the difference cause AI is so advanced

I see no problems.
This problem has been solved in many a scifi story and it will be true. Big money is paid for something that's harder to get.
In fact, it's already happening now. Poorfag buys things mass-produced in a factory, like a car.
Rich billionare can afford a car that's been put together by hand, one of a kind.
The more advanced technology becomes in creating things, the more valued will be the genuine, natural thing.
>these shoes are genuine leather! not that synthetic crap
>this is meat from a real pig grown on a farm
etc

The Japanese are not stupid. They are no different than anyone else trying to excel at figurative art. They study the Masters, they learn from Chinese/Russian atelier-rype resources, they have world class art schools ffs, use western online schools (or study in the west) if they speak english, and they devour all the same anatomy books we do (Bammes, Loomis, hale, Richer etc) PLUS a bunch of manga/anime instruction books. And this mostly for stylistic convention and trends.
Like us the have kids who learn and get inspired by social media and chan sites who fiddle with instruction books and youtubes but the serious ones are no different than anywhere else.