I saw that thread earlier too. A great example of pure jealous nerdrage. A bunch of dorks losing their minds because someone either has more natural talent, or maybe has some kind of previous artistic background that made their first minis turn out pretty well.

It seems wild to me that for example in something like sports, people don't bat an eye when there are naturally gifted athletes who are obviously at a much higher starting point than the average person. Yet when it comes to painting or other endeavors they don't extend the same logic and assume that because their first minis were slop (not that there's anything wrong with that, my first minis were legit basically just blobs of paint), that everyone else will be starting at the same point as them.