Wow, this turned out to be a long and nice thread, no? :) Thanks for all the great posts, I really do think it's useful to discuss matters like this sometimes. While honesty should be very important while we're commenting on someone's work, we should indeed remember also to be encouraging, which I think I forgot yesterday. to ronknights who wrote It appears, unfortunately, that you don't understand the concept of constructive criticism. Or you don't care to practice that essential art. I'll say this: when you have some spare time, go and surf the galleries and find images I've left comments on. Then come and tell me that you were wrong. Have a good Friday, everyone :)