And I DO understand what your sayin, although I wonder if the person had commented "lousy head" if you would not be a bit less fine with it ;-) It is GREAT to desensitize oneself before posting cause you never know what someone may happen to come along and say. What kills me is sometimes one may do work that they could care less about, maybe a quick piece, and it gets hoots and raves and whistles, and other times someone may work for weeks on a rendering and along comes some twerp and puts a "blech" under it. I am not so sure that, even if your the most popular, most gifted, or most rewarded artist on all the forums, that "this" might make ya just want to spit peas too? I have seen this happen way too many times in my forum life to the best, the in-between and the worst, so, never say never before it happens to you ;-) We should be much stronger, but we just aren't, especially to rudeness, and "it's ugly" is just plain "rude" no matter how much sugar coating anyone throws on it or well intended anyone wishes to make it sound "afterwards". As artists we do have a right to ask for courtesy, even if one don't like the work. Fine, tell me you can't stand it, but use some tact. "Heads too small" is a far cry from "it's ugly". And Lady Cherry, I commend you for your big heart ;-)