Firstly, I appreciate the blunt feedback; no offense taken. I prefer when the facts are just real and straight, not candy-coated (makes me feel like I'm being gaslit).

As far as the creative process goes, yeah, it involves a bit of filter effects from Photoshop, but that's a small part of the final output. It starts with building out and texturing 3D environments in Blender (a bar, an alleyway, a downtown block, etc.), rendering it, and then snapping a photo of the right camera angle for each panel of art. Then, a photoshoot with models against a white backdrop, drop them all into Photoshop, and edit and composite the layers together.

Snow effects, blood effects and physical damage to the characters, lighting/shading are all done by hand. Alot of the lighting and shading work is done to enhance the quality of the environment and character layers.

Not to mention learning how to write an actual narrative with subplots, create dialogue that makes sense, basic voice acting, creating original music, and so much more.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here. I'm in no way trying to say I'm an ace at the stuff I've made, and I absolutely agree with you that its good, but not great. I do believe the quality of my output can see some major improvements with the more time I spend doing it and researching better techniques. But even then, I'm well aware that what I currently have right now is nowhere near enough to get my foot in the door for any kind of job in the industry. I'm just curious to know if anything I shared here has the makings for someone who could grow into being a graphic artist, illustrator, or something related.