I still consider myself an amateur artist. These days I use mostly Photoshop for postwork, apophysis 7x for patterns, nebula etc.
Even though I am an amateur, I am still passionate about what I do.
I have recently discovered Midjourney, a Discord app that allows people like me, who are absolutely useless at drawing or painting people, to create portraits, characters and stunning landscapes. I know that there are those that are completely against AI art being on sites like DA, but if it's an outlet for people and a way for them to create, then why deny them, so let them, us, create.
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art" - Paul Cezanne
"Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson