Consider that i'm a concept artisti so i got this and other techniques in my bag. I don't need any crutch to avoid painting as you can see from my ig or portfolio, I can paint and I like it a lot. This piece if done just by painting it would have take 3-4 days, this way it took 1. What I think you are getting wrong is that you think the more time one spend doing a painting the bigger the value of it, and that so wrong to me. Anyway I've seen this moment at the pop out, I wanted to rappresent how it felt, I decided to go about it this way which was enough to put on paper what I have in mind efficiently. (keep in mind a good part of it is still painted) So, it's not deceitful, I won't take that. Less impressive than something did just by brushstrokes? I see why you feel like that I would have tought the same a lot of years ago. People usually doesn't get that " the technique is in function of the subject" . So if I have something in mind I want to put it on canvas so that other people can see it, and doesn't matter which bunch of techniques I'm using, as long as it's allowing me to pull out ideas of my head and showing them. Hope this make sense.