(didn't read all the comments on this post but got enough info to comment)...

 

This is exactly why I don't bother posting images or comment on uploads here, if I did, then I support what the general people here do... just pat your back and go on like this is only a business, spending a few seconds not even looking at details or absurbing anything (I see so much repetitive remarks, more likely copy/paste/go).  Also people only wishing for a pat on the back.  I feel like the "gallery" here is only a "statistic" business place, people want only statistic, and if you pat their back, they'll pat your back.  Blah, that's not what a gallery is about.  In here, you can't communicate back & forth and talk about details, and it's hard to ask for criticues here 'cause you can't ask questions (you're only permitted to post once in your upload)... that is, unless you sitemail back & forth where other people can't see and learn things as well.

I hang around DeviantArt, where true artists hang out & we can actually COMMUNICATE and have discussions, also we have this special option to tick "critique my art" when loading images, or we ask people in our "Artist's Comment" to critique our art or ask for help, and have the ability to reply directly to them where they'll get the message notification.  Other people browsing those comments will see and learn things as well.

As for people that don't want to learn how to do things the right way, they don't deserve the title "artists", they only play in 3D programs & load images as a game, killing time, or addiction or just to get a pat on the back.  This "gallery" at Renderosity don't make sense to me at all, it's a "pat my back and I'll pat your back" system.  A gallery should be a place where you load images and get encouragements/critiques from other people, or give encouragement/critiques... to help one another, and then or course get special recognition for stunning art work.

There are, however, trolls everywhere we look, which are rude people who go around cutting people's art down (or cutting them down themselves) and don't offer help.  When I say "critique", I'm talking about encouraging the good areas of the images first, then make suggestions/offer help on the parts that don't look good... if you have the artist's permission.  If you don't, then don't offer.

The only reason (and the only reason) I'm good at what I'm doing now is 'cause I always asked for critiques and help in learning how to produce great, natural art.  I've also absorbed a lot of discussions at Daz3D and DeviantArt and learned a lot from them, as well as spent many... MANY MANY hours experimenting things. Hadn't been for that, I'd still be using ugly shadowless lights, producing ultra bright art without occlusion shading and shadows, or ultra dark shaded areas with hard shadows.  In art, you don't teach/learn yourselves, you absorb others' art/communications and learn (from other experienced artists) the tools of the trade.

My two cents... :)

...wolfie