I agree with MPete and Agiel, especially when Agiel said "Participate". I lurked here at Renderosity for several years, just reading posts and looking at galleries. I got a few comments on my first image posts, and always got responses and help from folks on the forums (all of the forums I posted at). But I found that the more I participate, both by posting in the forums here and by offering comments and feedback on others' images, I get more people who become interested in what I've posted. In other words, give a little to get a little. I also posted in the Beginner's Gallery for the first month or so when I started putting images up. I had looked at so many images here that I felt "no way!" to put any of my stuff in Vue or Poser galleries. Only when feedback seemed more positive did I start posting in those galleries. As a viewer, I tend to stay away from galleries of folks who are around a while, and routinely post their 2 or 3 images a day, but never offer any feedback to anyone else, and even from the thumbnail they don't seem to have put any time at all into their scene. Anyone can click on the terrain editor and water plane with default materials and default sky and throw it onto the gallery here, but did they try to do anything with it? I think if you're doing a wip, one place is the gallery, when you title it a wip and people will give you good ideas and suggestions. That has happened for me several times and it really helped me a lot. The forum is also handy for wip or problems in images, for asking for help. But when the forum posts end up as a "here's my new pic" kind of post, I would rather go to the gallery to see what's happening. Most "regulars" do check the gallery; I try to get to Vue gallery every day or every other day to see what's been posted since I last visited. It's often one of the highlights of my day! Anyhow, sorry to go on so long, but wanted to give my 2Euro cents' worth!!

Sgiathalaich