I remember RP'ing with Colourbee/Coco ages ago on deviantART in some Pokemon group. She was always proud of her characters, especially this boy.
https://www.deviantart.com/dynastycoco/art/Arcus-intro-203630196
this was her comment way back in 2011
Arcus will be one of my main characters in my upcoming comic I'm planning to make when I'm finishing school its called "Acception"
so I will be posting a lot of crap in the future about Acception to try and make it popular, couse I have a good feeling about this story
This is Acception in Discover
an audience of over 105K subs she built on her on.
This is Acception finally featured few months ago.
I feel so proud of her. She worked hard for this and earned it. And she is just one example i know personally. Please don't be so dismissive at other artists' achievements. you don't know how hard they worked their ass off to get to this point.