The difference between an art object and a craft object is tens of thousand dollars.
Don't ask for a reason or justification people that grew up with a more square, or inside of the box, view of what is normal. None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing because every advanced art knows its own inadequacy. It takes close to one hundred ideas to turn up a few projects that are worth drawing.
Drawing from life is always better than photographs.
Whatever the artist makes is always some kind of whimsical self portrait. The position of the artist is humble. He is best as a channel than a form of autism or obsessive behaviour resulting as something easy to draw that looks cool.