But if you want to be able to call yourself an artist, you need to work towards shooting for yourself, not for others.
If you were the last person on earth, would you still take a photo?
Jens Lennartsson
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Couldn’t agree with you more on that. I’m an artist (literally). I grew up watching anime and all my sketches including my pet project Yume (yoomeh) are Japanese inspired. People ask me to sketch portraits of them and i flatly refuse, not because I can’t do it, but because I don’t want to sketch portraits.