And then there’s the art. I’m no artist so perhaps I should be complaining, but I’m tired of seeing everyone just posing with no background, usually with a hand reaching out. Where’s the action, where’s the creativity?

As an amateur artist, I can explain this.

It is damn hard to do a background that looks good with no formal training. So you concentrate on people first, and if you're ever lucky enough to go to art school(not that easy pass public school shit course), then you work on backgrounds. Otherwise it's just not going to look good. From what I can tell, most fan art is practice-y.