Not really, I worked a part time job for the last couple of years but the humiliation wasn't worth it. Wage slaving is dehumanizing but at least I got a PC and some sick anime figures out of it. Now you can catch me playing mahjong and escape from tarkov all day. I've retired from the golem farm.

>>2264967
eyeball the lighting and adjust it accordingly until it looks natural. i use the curves tool on Paint.NET for to adjust the brightness and exposure. the real trick to make a picture look passable is to just add noise/JPEG artifacts to both the background and character until both are consistent with each other. granted, my edits (picrel and >>2262190)
aren't really professional, but i got a good amount of views from using them as thumbnails for my youtube videos