It is pretty hard to hate honesty Jedswindells. 8) I love getting good honest critiques.... that, in my opinion, is what helps me to become better at what I like to do....art. So I hope you all will be honest and critique my images appropriately.... I promise I will not send you negative IMs. 8) I am not a great artist, I must admit it was quite a rush for me to see my pics in the hot 20... just never expected to see my work there. However, as Striving said... the clone art gets old really fast. Also as he stated, "I think many that believe they are helping by being overly kind, are really only hurting." is very true. Yes Bea, constuctive criticism is good.... it is great in fact. The destructive criticism is not helpful in any way; but don't let it stop you. Keep on rendering and learning. You can always ask AS to remove a destructive crit from your gallery image. As for me... I will continue to do like ICM and just keep voting for what I think is really deserving of a vote. Just my $5.00 worth

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