/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Is James Dean a /beg/ or he's one of those geniuses that know their fundies and chooses to do ''simpler'' stuff? asking cause i want to make it like him but avoid grinding fundies.

>Man children book's illustrators have it easy, what a bunch of hacks, just look at Pete the cat, i mean, even i could draw that
>try it, can't freaking draw it, can't fucking draw the autistic cat
I'm CWC tier at this point, i didn't merely stagnate, i regressed.
Anyway what are factors that make a parent pick up a children's book? do they look at it and say ''this one has soul'' and grab it, or do they ask their kids, or what? why does the simpler stuff sell more?