That is an insightful deduction my brother However, I look closely at everyone's posts I read.
TBH the delay in posting was due to my hesitancy to critique such a popular artists work.

In fairness, I did start my critique with...

and by popular opinion I am.
Humbly I crawl back in my burrow...

esper: well, you would never catch me putting an equals sign between "realistic" and "good looking" . if i'd been less lazy i would have gone back and changed the bevels i made with the emboss filter, though.
akros: by all means, if you insist - my gold paisleys are perfect.
molly: light sure seems to reflect and bounce off surfaces in a most ridiculously unpredictable way when the same surfaces are being photographed - especially when the poor photographer is short of time . and i actually won't change a thing, i'm far too lazy for that.
fluffybunny: that would be "sister", brother . and good heavens "such a popular artist" - is that supposed to be me?! very flattering of course, but you can criticize away all you like - i try to listen to all criticism and then i do just as i please anyway.
k1tesseraena: thank you ! i really hope i have some talent for that since it's what i one day hope to make a living on.