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if a sarcastic, defensive metaphor is what you were looking for, you could've spent a few more minutes coming up with a more logically-sound one. or you could've just engaged with my points directly, without the sarcasm. if you can ONLY make art with Photoshop and completely lack any ability whatsoever to draw/paint/etc. without it, then yeah, you might not be an artist, but rather, a Photoshop-user. hopefully we agr…
An artist starts with PS, they master it can can make beautiful art with it. Then they need to use another product, or work traditionally - there'll be another learning curve but a lot of what they already learned can be reapplied. They're still an artist, even if they exclusively use PS & don't understand the minutiae of traditional art/techniques to smear charcoal until they decide to try it. A game dev starts with…
why does the title matter so much to you? and why go to all these lengths to justify not learning the tiniest bit more about the craft of which you claim the title of craftsman, especially when I've gone the lengths I have to lay out exactly how straightforward it would be, and exactly what you have to gain from it?
this insistence over titles and outright refusal to learn basic principles is the sort of thing that makes me think that independent game development has become more of a fashion than a craft taken seriously.