"I think if an artist wants constructive feedback they should state what they were aiming for in the image and ask for advice in the description section of the upload. If the artist's intention is unclear, most times the people giving feedback are just telling the artist what the critic would have done...projecting their tastes onto the artist's work. If an artist uses renders without shadows but is happy with that, it's a waste of time telling them to turn the shadows on....that's how the critic would render their own art, so it's not really giving helpful advice. I think the problem in the galleries most of the time is bad communication - of what the artist's intent is so that they can get the feedback that will actually help them." That's the best suggestion I've heard in a long time since that seems to be 90% of the problem with comments. It would certainly get ppl on the same wavelength as the artist to know what the object they were trying to achieve was and allow other to give some more helpful advice. Since art is a communication skill and if your image isn't communicating what you wanted to say to the audience then the comments should provide feedback on how to improve it so the audience can get the message you wanted to convey better. It certainly would be better than the "Cool Image" and "Nicely Done" comments that ppl leave out of politeness for the effort because they don't know what else to say.

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