>>3894295Semi realism has the benefits of look satisfactory to create while looking highly skilled to the average viewer, It only simplifies by not adding in 100% real time rendering and finer details like pores, skin patches, individual hairs etc.
If an artist can achieve photo realism from scratch without a reference they have basically mastered human anatomy.
stylized art can look interesting but majority of the time it is used by people simply breaking the rules of anatomy instead of mastering them to a point where then can bend the rules, this results in the infamous "my style" excuse when critiqued.
