[snowwrestler]

Please read the rest of my comment. There's no "stricture," but if one engages in an artistic form without even the most basic awareness of its context, then one opens oneself up to a wide variety of criticism.

If anyone is trying to impose strictures, it is the comments above who try to declare criticism off-limits because there was not a "journalist" label or something.

Simply faking an animal portrait is not groundbreaking or "outsider." It's been done, and it's boring.