...a good question for a forum of artists.

However illustrators are not artists.
Also I remember a tv show where specialists have to discover who in a group is an impostor, trained in a month to look as a professional (chef, artist, cloth designer....). In one episode, a 30 years old electronic technician with no artistic inclinations was trained to make monoprints, he get interesting designer clothes and haircut, trained what and how to say and participated with his artworks to an exhibition together with another three consacrated and veteran artists. Five famous art critics were invited at vernissage to guess who is the impostor; only one guessed right.