Ok since being back, I noticed a big deal going on about the (drum roll please) the hot 20. and of course the inevitable "they are just jealous" crap that gets tossed at anyone that remotely questions the hot 20 or the artists in them. why? why is it to be said so causticly that is just simply MUST be jealousy? does that mean any artist that looks at a piece and go ..that could use a shadow or there is her bloody arm going through the wall or her hip is poking through a coat..that is must be jealousy? jealousy of what? a bad render? a lack of detail? Just because an artists gives a critique doesn't mean there is jealousy involved. anymore then it means if you are in the top 20 you had to get there solely on "friends" votes. just as being in the top 20 doesn't mean you are good. people wonder WHY people don't leave honest comments? because when they do. people get ignorant and don't think for a moment they could of made a mistake that someone is just jealous. It is sad to see that in the time I was gone from online...that nothing has change but on the contrary has gotten worse. now if you tell someone "er. the arm is going through the building and you need to move the person abit. there is also a shadow missing if you adjust your lights it will fix it" that person is attacked. worse then before it seems. it seems to fly right by ..that a person would say that to HELP an artist. yet the crystalline fragile egos here take it immediately as something vile and jealousy filled and the swarm of "don't listen to them it is PERFECT" come. it seems the "GREAT" mentality...the mentality that the only way to help a friend or support them is to blindly with out question tell them continuously how perfect they are. there are some immense art in the top 20. But, just because you are in the top 20 doesn't mean you are Picasso either. and just because someone questions it...doesnt mean they are jealous. Most artists here when they start..the top 20 is important. after all. being an artist generally means you LIKE to have your worked looked at and well..liked.(also most of us regardless of age have shed tears over our work in one way or another for what ever reason. no one should ever be ashamed of that) but as you get older in rendo or just to art. being in a top anything starts to loose a luster. yes it is nice. but...you start to realize it is not about how high someone places you but how high you place your OWN work and how hard you work to increase your skill and how far you can stretch your horizon. it gets to be about what you can portray in your work. if you can get it to "live". it starts to be a focus past a placement on any list. some may wish to think about that..there is no growth without growing pains. Btw..... -allot- of artists have left rendo. 95% of them quietly. why? they grew. they got tired of the utter shit. they got tired of the fake praise. if you go to some other art forums. you will see what I mean. We all complain that the PTB need to do something. but, how can the PTB go into each living room/puter room and change a persons views? yes they could just remove the top 20..but that wont change the egos, the mind sets and the sight of some. That wont change blind compliments or the jumping off of " they must be jealous don't listen to them" what needs to change..is the view of it. see...told you to read at your own risk ;)

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