I understand that it's easy to view comments like yours as being helpful criticism. I mean, God knows I left enough of them when I was younger. But the thing is, looking back on such comments now, a lot of them are really embarrassing because I didn't have much concept of what makes art good or bad. I understood some rudimentary concepts like proportions and anatomy, but was clueless toward more advanced things like composition and positive/negative space. Working from pure intuition, many of the artists I criticized were exceptionally good at these advanced concepts, and I probably ruined a few of them by getting them to prioritize the dumb stuff I viewed as determinant of art quality.
Ultimately, one of the best things you can do to help people get better at art is to encourage them to draw. Bad, good, or whatever - anything that gets them to push forward without consequence or shame will bring their skill higher than something that makes them create less. In many cases, the work of such wild artists will come to excel in ways unencompassed by more rudimentary criticisms, which is honestly much more beneficial.
This probably isn't a discussion that should be had on randomlyFish's drawing, though.
Radian: Hm, "you really need to work on getting better at art" doesn't sounds insulting for me. Who the hell don't really need to work on art gains? From my point of view it sounds like "keep going". At least if you see something like this you probably wont stop progressing. I fucking losing that the heck I want to say...
BUT this "advice" isn't very helpful, if you want to say picture sucks you should also say why it sucks, and in best case you should also say how to make it better.
Rick2tails: saying "you need to get better at your art" without any constructive criticism comes across totally as "man you suck!" and while the likeness in this picture isnt spot on. its still cute and not bad art
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The booru is for any fanart of any skill, it isn't a proving ground. Act nice or don't act at all. </3
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1: I'm not not trying to be insulting, I'm sorry if I am.
2: I already saw this image posted on Tumblr weeks before it was posted here. So, I've have had enough time to get over it.
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I understand that it's easy to view comments like yours as being helpful criticism. I mean, God knows I left enough of them when I was younger. But the thing is, looking back on such comments now, a lot of them are really embarrassing because I didn't have much concept of what makes art good or bad. I understood some rudimentary concepts like proportions and anatomy, but was clueless toward more advanced things like composition and positive/negative space. Working from pure intuition, many of the artists I criticized were exceptionally good at these advanced concepts, and I probably ruined a few of them by getting them to prioritize the dumb stuff I viewed as determinant of art quality.
Ultimately, one of the best things you can do to help people get better at art is to encourage them to draw. Bad, good, or whatever - anything that gets them to push forward without consequence or shame will bring their skill higher than something that makes them create less. In many cases, the work of such wild artists will come to excel in ways unencompassed by more rudimentary criticisms, which is honestly much more beneficial.
This probably isn't a discussion that should be had on randomlyFish's drawing, though.
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BUT this "advice" isn't very helpful, if you want to say picture sucks you should also say why it sucks, and in best case you should also say how to make it better.
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RIP those glows though.