/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

It's oil painting the only profitable market left?

>used to think realism was this huge advanced extremelly skilled shit
>discover is basically tracing the art form from real life
>the more you can learn to trace real life the more skilled you are
>tfw drawing realism is just being a shitty human camera oscura
>but muh fantasy dragons (which are made from tracing lizard photos)

the worst part is that if you don't trace from real life people will think your skills are shit, even if you draw 100% from imagination.

people think chin chan and hello kitty takes less skill than making a shitty realistic AAA concept art shit.

>99% of my income and paid commisions comes from a single furry

What are the mandatory canon of art education books?

I know bout loomis, but what else there are?