[tripzilch]

I believe that if you pay them for their time, it's not really "wasted", at least not nearly as "wasted" as when the next person would pay them to design some vapid advertisement.

In addition to that 1) it's for science and 2) maybe you owe it to yourself to have a really nice framed picture of a pelican riding a bicycle on the wall :D

About the dedicated image generation results, I still would have made the bicycle smaller, but it starts to depend on how motivated the artist is to make both the bike and pelican accurate. Which is fine, but if you want to have a benchmark, it's important to have at least one "known good" example, I think.