Conniekat8 - where is this critique group forming?

My own opinion is that it's up to we who post comments to be kindly critical and set a good example.
I almost never post a gallery comment without trying to analyze the image, discuss what works and what doesn't and provide suggestions for improvement. 

Because so many artists PM me later to encourage this kind of critique and to request more of it, i think it has merit.

Of course it also helps sell my art skills ebook in the Marketplace here - so i'm not unbiased, lol.

As i write in that ebook, even when artists ask for crit, many people feel it's not polite to point out any failings - when actually it's the kindest move to make. And many viewers don't have the visual communication vocabulary or image analysis experience. To bad they are often too shy or in too much of a hurry to at least analyze their feelings about an image and report those.

Agree also that for many, the gallery is just a "hugz club". Maybe by posting many more serious crits, we could change that?