Art has been my job since about 2020. My experience is that, while I can certainly do lovely work with any way of making a mark and enough time, shitty tools w

Art has been my job since about 2020. My experience is that, while I can certainly do lovely work with any way of making a mark and enough time, shitty tools will take a lot of time to get decent work, decent tools will take a sensible amount of time relative to how much people are willing to pay me, and power tools - once you've learnt how to use them properly - will let me work a lot faster for the same quality of work. Pushing single pixels in Paint is like writing assembly language for artists, except we don't even get the benefit of all that time spent coming back as blazingly fast execution. We just had to spend a lot more time than other tools could have let us take.