Forum: Bryce


Subject: Apologies and apologetics...

draculaz opened this issue on Oct 05, 2002 ยท 45 posts


Phantast posted Sat, 05 October 2002 at 5:31 AM

I'm happy to take criticism on my entry - as I mentioned when I posted it, I was busy this month with another contest that took all my time, but this was such a nice challenge theme that I wanted to put something in at least. So this was a rather jokey entry not to be taken too seriously, and definitely put together rather quickly. BUT - it actually has no default textures in it! (Except perhaps the matt black used on the rocket's entry, and the glass helmet is probably a standard glass.) In addition to "time spent = quality" being a myth, it is also a myth that the only people qualified to offer criticism are those who can do better themselves. For example, most people can recognise a bad drawing, but not so many are good at drawing themselves. If an artist presents a bad drawing, and someone says, "Hey - that's no good, you've got the fingers all wrong," it is absolutely NOT acceptable for the artist to reply, "Well, can you do better?" It is immaterial whether the critic can do better or not. Actually, I'm surprised that draculaz picks on Rochr as so wonderful. No offense to Rochr, it's a good picture indeed, but I seriously doubt that it stands out from the rest so remarkably as draculaz evidently feels it does.