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Hello! I've featured this wonderful comic in a journal of mine just now if you'd like to read it~
Your comic brought up a perfect topic, a real issue both online and offline in the art world and I wrote this as a general message to people to help them understand what goes on, why, and how to deal with it..because we all have had bad experiences relating to this stuff.
Your comic brought up a perfect topic, a real issue both online and offline in the art world and I wrote this as a general message to people to help them understand what goes on, why, and how to deal with it..because we all have had bad experiences relating to this stuff.
PSA: The Issues with Artists and CriticsThis is probably going to be long, but hopefully it will be helpful...This is just a general journal for anyone, not specifically my watchers
Written based on this comic here (and many of the experiences I and others have had on DA) , credited to Tikonka ; original deviation here
There's massive issues on both sides here.
On one side is the difference between people actually helping, and people who think they know what "constructive" is: People who are actually helping know how to give proper critique that involves building the artist up based on everything they did well or right; giving them tips and ideas of how they could do it differently; thoroughly explaining what needs to be fixed or improved, and giving advice on how to actually do so.
On the other hand of this side, we have the people who think they know what