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I'd like to pursue portrait painting but I consider myself a student at best and most of my work shows it. I enjoy reading, learning, and viewing others' works but I can't yet make any meaningful contribution to the discussions on techniques and portraiture.
I believe I could find a couple of my works capable of securing my membership but the whole process, even the idea of it, doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps it's because I'd be gaming the system with my best. Perhaps it's a fear of not being accepted anyway. Or perhaps it's because I've never wanted to post to ask questions but to make contributions to threads on cameras, books, searches, materials (sources and references) etc. where I had the very answers others were seeking.
There's very little to gain for the effort of joining, especially since there several open forums with (some of the very same) skilled, knowledgable, artists available to answer.
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