Attached Link: Critique Forum

> Quote - There is a curious implication above that > (a) amateurs are automatically worse artists than professionals > and > (b) professionals respond to criticism in a more temperate way than amateurs. > Neither would appear to be a standpoint that bears up very well to analysis.

 

Not really. I was mostly saying that I'll respect a critique from somebody who is a better Poser artist than me over somebody who isn't. I'd also pay more attention to diet advice from a fit athlete over that of a 600 lb couch potato. It doesn't mean that any of the advice is wrong, but that the advice from the person who can personally apply it to themselves carries more weight than the advice from the person who has not demonstrated the ability to improve themselves.

Quote - Plain ordinary people go into galleries and pass comment on the work exhibited there as well as art critics.

 

True, but those comments aren't permanently left next to the museum painting.

Quote - However, a thread about the worst gallery images would be asking tor trouble since it's holding someone up to ridicule, which constitutes a TOS violation.  No personal attacks, remember?

 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not asking to post that type of thread. I could go through the gallery and fairly quickly create a thread of problems in a lot of images without trying to make it personal. It isn't hard to find images that have real artistic problems. However, the critique would probably be taken personally. Whether the criticism is done in a forum thread or in the gallery, it's probably going to be taken personally. 

As has been mentioned by a few others in this thread, gallery works tend to be final works. Critiques that are specific to a gallery image usually won't get fixed. Artists have either deleted the .pz3 work files to save space or they are too busy working on something new to fix an old image. The advice is somewhat moot. 

There is a critique forum here and every artist posting work there is asking for advice on how to make their images better. Those artists are welcoming honest critiques. It's safer to offer advice there than to offer unrequested advice in the galleries.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon