They are on a whole different level of creativity. Its a dream for me to be able to paint with my imagination only without any references. And the way you portrayed this story through your colorless pictures and words added different emotional colors and feels to the story. There is so much yet to learn in steemit.
Oh, every artist started painting with references. We all mimic from nature and then we decide to add something else with those objects that we copy and then we evolve to drawing things straight from our imagination. That's why I understand what you do for now and did my best to make you understand that here on Steemit is not like a regular social media because we are earning rewards from what we post... so careful with posting art from references. ^^ You will get there someday.
I will make sure to add credit to the source while posting such art. I pull random images from random places that catch my eye to draw and I will credit such pieces. Steemit is a great platform to grow and unlike most corporate owned social media it is decentralized. I hope I can grow with the communities of Steemit.