The galleries here on Rendo serve one purpose, and it's NOT personal art development. Even the Realism category contains images that leave a lot to be desired from a "realism" standpoint.

And is Realism really what we're after, anyway?

On other GC forums, where the process of creating this form of artwork is -- by nature of the tools involved - far more sophisticated and infinitely more laborious, we see samples of artwork that leave 90% of what is in our galleries in the dust. Is it the tool? No, it's the mindset that adopts this tool. The majority of people who purchase Poser / Daz Studio DON'T want to learn complex things. They want to fiddle around and then miraculously render a stunning picture.

One has to keep in mind the "isn't my baby gorgeous!!" syndrome. I look at what I used to make and sheesh, I'm so embarrassed that it's still on my gallery pages, but I'm leaving it there, not because it's awesome but because it isn't. At the time though, I thought: "Wow, I did that!" I think we all do that.

I've spent all week reading and reading and copying and pasting into folders and text files any threads with info on how to improve your outcomes (you should see your folder, BagginsBill!). What we have on this forum (and in a hobbled way, on RDNA - hate not having links to stuff!!!) is absolute gold. When I go to YOUR art pages, my friends, I can see a difference from the MakeArt crowd... or from those who run away screaming "my brain hurts" and go and render nostril glow.

People ask me why I haven't posed any renders recently. I've been rendering heaps... but then I read and I see where I could do it a bit better and so I do another render and then read some more.

So, where is all this drivel going?

I would like to propose a Forum Gallery / Focus on Critical Thinking, where artists and geniuses can have sequential WIP images of a scene they are working on describing what they are doing in exhaustive detail, all with the intent of inviting remark and critique and for the emulation of those with a burning desire to learn this process and tool properly.

What do YOU think??

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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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