Being a good draftsman doesn't make you an artist.
It does, actually, until there is at least one person in the world who can identify the beauty and the idea behind your work. There are no checkboxes for qualifying individually as an artist, because art is just a way to express thoughts and ideas. A child can do that, and if another child admires the drawing then its already an art piece within this two-children system. At least this is how I see it.
EDIT: For a draftsman it is all the same. Usually 2D artist participates in a transitory phase in the general pipeline and his drafts are moved to the 3D guys, so their work isn't even a final product. But it can still be a beautiful environmental piece for example and I am sure that qualifies as an art.
EDIT 2: I love how the discussion shifted from a rant to sex and now to art
