[ontheotherhand]

"try talking to an actual professional artist"

Well duh. However, I see what you did there. Why the arbitrary qualification? Why does it have to be a professional artist, why not an albino one, or someone who only has 8 fingers, or an artist period? Oh right, because then your argument kinda falls on its face.

[jbooth]

Everyone's gotta eat. If professional artists don't live up to your standards of what makes art vs whoring, then who does?