This is my first forum post.

Way before I became an active member, I was but a simple lurker going by the name of Raventree. I witnessed the disease about a year and a half ago, and it has happily festered since then.

Although I think the symptoms described do not apply to everyone. In fact, the victims of mass praise are more often than not artists who posted one or a few outstanding images once in their life. After that, they could post inferior stuff and it would still be labeled the next best thing - not a single constructive comment (how dare you confront such a marvelous artist?

I started making Neverwinter Nights portraits for the Neverwinter Vault at IGN and I am used to people bashing (constructively) my stuff whenever it was inferior to my previous posts. After a while, I had standards to keep up, and sometimes ditched whole projects because they didn't look good enough. No regrets, though. I couldn't have evolved without the criticism, and I firmly believe in it.

Cheers,

Antonio (a.k.a. Amalthea)