i kind of gave up on representative drawing/painting realizing how many years of devoted practice it takes, because here we are in an age where we have photography. and yet, if you look at all my rolls of photographs, thousands every year, there's so much purposefully blurred, out of focus, abstraction lol -- i use this highly technical, exacting life-like tool to do a bunch of impressionistic work! ha, could have just gone on sketching scribbles
well it seems you are trained in representative drawing...spent hours and hours and hours doing it and it's a good thing...training your eyes and your sense of light/balance/comp
I actually seldom crop my photos cause I set them up before I take the shot...whereas I find those who began with photography are (sorry) crop happy...I crop sometimes but not a whole lot
there is still a very good market for art...plus people choose to cross over into composite photos...something I really like myself...or adding elements ... creating, really, art from photos that is no longer what they saw but what they want to represent or feel when they create it.
really I see it as endless opportunities to create and imagine...while fun, also requiring dedication and pursuing what you want to express
someone once mentioned 'the best artists are those who can keep their behinds in the chair the longest' haha
as it is, I particularly like detail so that is not the biggest problem