Looking at Black Unicorn's artist's page, I would hazard that he is in his mid to late 30s, and probably French (or French Canadian ... anyway, I don't think English is his primary language). The sad thing is, with everyone just filling his head up with how outstanding his work supposedly is, and voting him into the top 20, and no honest critique (although Catlin's post echoes my sentiments exactly), he's not likely to improve his work. Of course I have no idea what bromba's original post was all about, or whether it was legitimate criticism or not, but I must say that BU's IM responses were childish at best. (Although I doubt I would have posted them as bromba did.) I do find I tend to discount comments made by people who have no work of their own posted. If someone is one hell of an artist and says that something is really excellent, I'll admit that means a bit more to me than it does if I look at what they have posted and it is amateurish at best. And, yes, if I see something rated as excellent and it looks like ho hum so so to me, I do tend to look at the galleries of those whose comments are listed. I often find that those calling average work "excellent" and raving about it, have work I would consider sub-par. If they don't even have a single piece posted, then their opinion is really meaningless to me.

Could be worse, could be raining.