As a corollary to Phantast's post... You can't make people like your art. You can't make people respect your effort. They will or they won't. I understand your frustration. I've got some quickie images in my gallery, but several of them took a huge amount of effort and learning to get them to the point where I felt comfortable posting them. And, more often than not, they'd end up in the Bryce gallery adjacent to a twenty-minute render of a busty Poser woman standing next to an imported motorcycle model. Guess which one got more attention --every time? I created an image for a Bryce challenge some months back that took more time and effort on my part than any image before or since (it really was a challenge!), and it got like one vote, because another artist's image spoke more to the voters. But that's life. Cliche though it is, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. For what it's worth, I think your modelling skills are exceptional, beyond what I expect mine to ever be. But know that Bryce was conceived and developed with a mind to creating fanciful images, not technical ones --and even though your images are wonderfully constructed, you're dealing with a viewing public that is likely more inclined to enjoy those more fanciful works.