There is no better way of improving yourself other than accepting critique. There is no better judge than the enlightened leniant kind, the one that sees the faults but takes them as simple growing pains of an emerging artist.

Every time I create something with Bryce, I post it on a message board that I share with friends. My latest piece of work, which can be found here was therefore dully posted on that board for people to look at and critique. Aside from the models (which I've worked for some 20-25 hours on alltogether), the image is a standard bryce sky, a water plane that can be barely seen, and a little tinkering with the materials lab and photoshop (slightly different coloration and some 2% noise for added reality). Nothing out of the ordinary in my mind, especially since I was advertising the free models more than the actual picture.

Regardless of that, one of the critics pointed me at this image. He simply liked it more. Being the merciless critic that I am, I immediately said that he was nothing more than a hick. I think the form I used was: it's like a hick and a roman looking at a botticelli, and the hick saying, 'damn i don't like that, my wife can draw one d'em prettier pictures.'

Case in point, the guy's brycean drawing is something extremely simplistic and newbyish in my opinion. It would take me 5 minutes to re-create it. The same point can be applied to this contest. There's good, and there's mediocre. I personally can't stand people coming in and manifesting their dislike in front of hours of work in favor of something much less developed and simplified. I WANT people to tear my creations to shreads, because I expect myself to get better. My point, I guess, is that there is more to art than it being just in the eye of the beholder. It's also in the fact that the critic has to know what the hell he's talking about. Am I being a hypocrite? I don't know, I'm simply stating my opinion.

Drac
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