Forum: Community Center


Subject: Your helpful comments for improving this image:

eudoxus opened this issue on Nov 20, 2005 ยท 37 posts


thundering1 posted Mon, 21 November 2005 at 9:36 AM

It seems many of the RR artists didn't attend any "formal" art classes - and therefore haven't gone through the formal presentaion process where your artwork is in front of the class for CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. This is a 2-part system: 1 - The artist learns that just about anything can be a WIP, and use help or sugestions without taking it (too) personally. They can take the suggestions and look at their art objectively seeing what is being pointed out. 2 - This makes the person doing the criticizing accountable for what they say and how they say it - they're right there IN PERSON in front of the artist they're criticizing. You figure out how to be tactful (because theirs is going up next, and there can be definite retribution!) I've probably got over 200 images on my hard drive that you'll never see because I think they're crap - just me figuring out the software(s) I've got (there's even one in my gallery I'm seriously thinking of deleting). If someone displays an image with a figure's butt merging past their skirt, they should have known this beforehand and corrected it - or if they can't figure out how THEY SHOULD MENTION THIS IN THE DESCRIPTION. Otherwise they should EXPECT someone to point it out - this isn't gonna be a surprise. But there ARE Trollers who are not tactful at all, and sometimes even try to disguise it as "people hate me for just being honest". "TROLLERS WILL BE JOYFULLY MANGLED!!" is another slogan I now put up for bid! Yeah, "Helpful" politely means "Don't just say it sucks". -Lew ;-)