/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

After being in an strict pencil/charcoal plein air diet I decided to clean my old tablet and try jumping to digital again. I looked up some youtube videos to see which brushes to use and the general workflow in landscape painting in ps. I was shocked to see that every fucking landscape artist is just some shitty lifeless copypasting photo bashing """concept""" artist, like, what the fuck??? Why do they have thousands of followers when their shit paintings literally consist of photo collages and fucking zero talent??? I'm so fucking mad at everything right now why can't fantasy art gain its soul back it is literally either soulless plastic landscapes or anime cancerous art