Are these good? :(

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I think the bottom line here is that it's admirable that you sat and went over this for hours just to get the same kind of look you could have gotten from using some kind of filter or effect, but it's not really impressive considering you could have just used a filter or effect. I imagine if you did this thousands of times, eventually you would gain enough skill to create hyper-realistic images that didn't exist anywhere else.