>>7775364
The main sources of funding for large painting projects are from entertainment companies. A lot of them are digital in format, so the art is going to be digital as well. Tabletop games usually cheap out on artists, so investing physical materials in a work that can’t be resold doesn’t make sense. Wizards of the Coast, for instance, allows artists to sell their traditional works, but the works are limited to certain kinds of subject matter and the composition will be simplified for printing on a card.

Western art education is also ass rn and doesn’t promote any kind of creative fundamentals. Its either you learn to copy shit 1-for-1 or you do whatever the fuck you want as long as you can say enough words to make the art teacher happy.

Still, there are good contemporary artists out there, but they will be painting stuff they are interested in.
Some would be Nick Alm or Mian Situ