'It is less infeasible than it would be if my attention did not scale with success.  But in several respects not as ideal as the alternative.'

Nod nod.

'Not least because causing other entities to have more power to act in the world - when not opposed to my own essence - is itself something which gains me magic.'

"...huh, that's interesting."

'How so.'

"It doesn't strike me as much like an art project even to the extent that implementing vampires is."

'Hmm.

Becoming more powerful is to me an important part of the vampiric aesthetic.  Or my general aesthetics from which I formed vampirism.'

"Yeah, that makes sense, I just wouldn't have predicted it."

'I am not aware of any members of my species with as broad a range of potential magic sources as I.'

"Do you know what makes you different?"

'Not beyond being a happenstance outlier in the evolutionary direction my species is pointed in.  Though I once hypothesized that any similarly-broad artists would have left our mutual plane of origin once they gained the ability, decreasing the likelihood that I would know of their existence.'

"Nobody would have told you?"

'I expect it would have come up if anyone I was acquainted with knew, but they also would have been less likely to.  And our plane is infinite while our population is not.'

"How do you know it's infinite?"

'Intra-planar teleportation is sooner achievable than extra-.'

"So you're pretty spread out?"

'For the most part.'

"Is there like one major artist city?"

'No.

Though I suppose I may not have heard of it if there was.  But in that case there being exactly one seems still unlikely.'

"Fair enough. The natural design thing doesn't sound like it'd really lend itself to cities."

'The most densely populated locales I entered tended to be the most dangerous for that reason.'

"Dangerous?"

'The most prominent threat to artists is by far our conspecifics.  In most situations this is not of particular concern in absolute terms, but when there is an unusually high number of us in a given region, it is generally because multiple artists care about having their own projects adjacent to each other, or have a vision which requires sprawl, and have left each other inadequate room for expansion.'

"Ah. And they will once in a while vandalize somebody else's stuff to get them out of the way?"

'Yes.  It's horrific.'