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This is an opportunity, not a blog. One can come in and proclaim and see how their ideas are received or they can do the work and show the progress.To agitate and shock is of little use to most of us. Challenging ideas is a good thing if there has been a proven track record of results, but I will say, in this economy, I am trying to keep paying my bills from my art.
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Every human tribe has its god, its high priests to point accusing fingers and its rottweillers to attack the heretics.
Your replies are high on aggression but low on relevance from an artistic point of view.
I too have seen the dynamics on a number of forums over 10 years or so. They operate as in-groups which means that when an 'outie' questions something we immediately get someone who steps up and says that the owner of the site can manage the site as they wish. This is perfectly true but usually irrelevant to the question since their right is not being put into question merely the wisdom of certain decisions. Then the rottweillers line up to savage the heretic and the heretic either lies on their back and recants or leaves. Conformity is restored until the next heretic stumbles in.
In practice this is a rather wide church ranging from Marvin to Thomasin passing via Debra and Ilaria. Many different styles responding to very different aesthetics and that is the way it should be with artists challenging and stimulating each other. Trying to quash discussion by chanting 'traditional portrait site' is pointless.