Wow... After reading a number of posts in this thread, I gotta say that alot of people here are pretty arrogant and egotistical.
Ofcourse, I don't mean to offend. Just an observation.
*creeps away before getting her ass kicked by the community*
Perhaps you shouldn't attempt hit-and-run value judgements. They usually don't lead to good things. If you feel compelled to comment on someone's character on the internet, why don't you adress them directly, tell them exactly what they said that you object to and give them a chance to explain themselves.
It is all the more telling that you're expecting an asskicking that will not arrive.
About Kinkade, ptoing at al: technical merit is one thing, the majority of one's work being redundant or abhorrent on the motive and aesthetic level another. Pixelgod I said, and maintain, doesn't know how to draw right. He should work on his fundamentals. His humans are wonky in lights and anatomy, faces especially strangely made, lips improvised, so on. Furthermore I
do find his work garish and generally over'shopped, but that's another thing. At least this Kinkade person seems to be technically accomplished to a degree.