My wife and I used to have this discussion back when we got married (coming up on 21 years). Back then I was mucking about with Deluxe Paint and some really rudimentary 3D apps (POVray and the precursor to trueSpace). I think she has changed her tune after all of these years, finally accepting digital art as being just as valid as traditional. Tell your friend that if she ever finds an app that enables the "computer to do it for me" to please send me a purchase link...I want that program. It just isn't so.
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