jsmith8045 opened this issue on Jun 11, 2006 · 81 posts
bopperthijs posted Mon, 12 June 2006 at 6:05 PM
Saro wrote:
Its not really helpful or motivating to give people the answers they want.
I agree with that, most of the images I've posted got flattering comments, which is very nice considering the ammount of work I've put in them. But if you see on the other hand that other images get the same comments while in my opinion they suck, then you don't consider those comments very valuable. (no bad feelings to my critics, I like being pleased)
What worries me more, it seems that people don't want to post bad critics because of the overload of the images that are posted everyday And why should they? What is the use to give a comment to an image that in you opinion is a five minute work and gets comments like: wow dude, great work, I like the chick, nice work on the boobies. while the lighting sucks, the pose sucks, there are no decent shadows or no shadows at all. and there are hundreds, perhaps thousands images like these. It ain't no use to give another comment than to say that it looks like s**t because the author of this most appreciated work won't understand what you mean cause the only dial he can find is the breastmorph. But even that has no use because it won't stop him from posting another serie of priceless pinups in the morning encouraged as he is by his big fanclub.
Okay, that's for the bad guys and girls.
For the good ones: It's very rare that I give a comment to someone's work, because I'm far away from being an profesional artist. The only time I give comment is when notice something wrong on a rendering, that I know how to solve. But I consider that more a technical issue than a esthetic one, and I think it will be usefull for the poster. Of course there are more people that are more experienced than I am, but considering the huge amount of images posted everyday, every helpful critique will be welcome.
-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?