If you wish to pursue art you have to learn to take comments that are not always favourable, being an art agent also and speaking from an agents point of view I also am suprised so many of your pieces are in the top 20, they are good but definatly lack something that is seen in other artists work here at rend and I can fully understand why people are asking about the votes u received which I am 100% sure were not from REND artists themselves..this is a tightknit community and even if artists are close friends they only vote if the piece is worthy... Being art agent for Turtle and having rights to artists such as ravnheart, Jen etc, I only ever vote if I feel a particular piece deserves it no matter how much I actually like the render..Turtles art on my own site has a massive fan following and has the largest amount of hits than any other section of the site..I am sure if people knew they could vote for her she would be in the TOP 20 every week, but that would be unfair so we do not notify anyone they can actually vote like that for her down here at REND as we do not for any other artist I represent Showcasing beautiful art work on a site that many PSP users will visit to me is like death to copyright,..Its great to showcase artists but u have to do it the right way, ensure copyright notices are in place and keep it seperate from anything to do with PSP downloadables..and of course have a page which u can show proof of permission from the artists that u have rights to promote their art....Its one reason Turtle and I refuse to allow anyone to showcase her art,except a couple of 3D sites as we know full well eventually it will end up as clipart or a tube...