I agree that people doing art are sometimes looking for what might make thier work better, but it is cruel to say hurtful things about someone's work. We should be able to just shrug off coments that hurt, we know that, but sometimes it is a terriably hard thing to do. I believe any art is an expression of a person's soul and for someone to ridicule it, that is a terriable thing to do. It would be almost like walking up to a woman holding a new baby and sayin "My GOD! That is the ugliest child born on this earth!!" LOL Well, some people are only able to feel good about themselves if they put someone else down, and I feel sorry for them, they just show how very insecure they feel about themselves. However, that doesn't stop me from wanting to reach out and slap them silly when they have hurt someone with thier thoughtless cracks. Didn't thier mothers ever teach them that if you couldn't say something nice, keep quiet? It is possible to tell a person how to improve something as far as techinique is conserned, without being hurtful. As far as taste is concerned, if they don't go for that kind of thing, they can just move on to the next one. Sorry for the long post, I kinda get rabid about this kind of thing:)