Quote - If I let every negative comment or snobbish reaction affect me, I'd find the darkest corner, curl up into a ball and cry every day for a year....and that's just the negative stuff from this community.

It's far easier to pick someone else's work apart than to do quality work yourself. Go review the majority of the threads that accompanied the launches of the recent figures from various sources in the past couple of years. Pretty vicious stuff, and most of it to no good point. Just the public berating of someone else's efforts.

If you post something and ask for honest criticism, that is what you should get... an honest evaluation of what you have done. First, "How well did you do what you set out to do," and second, "why was it worth doing in the first place." The only time I will EVER offer criticism is when it is directly requested. To do so otherwise is me setting myself up above other Poser artists, and I don't feel like I want to even go there.

If you don't ask for criticism, then only those with axes to grind are going to criticise you. Makes me wonder why those who are critical of our hobby bother to worry about us.

But then, I guess that's why I have a job here.

My $.02