Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:
a. What initially prompted me to write about them.
b. One of their best traits.
c. One of their worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The moment where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans to write the character in the near future.
Uhhh, I haven't really put any writings on line because most of it is garbage, but they're slowly being rewritten. However if you know anything about any characters of mine you're free to ask
All you do is upload art, reply to a few comments, maybe leave a rant... but that's it. Now, if you were to comment on other peoples' art... you could probably get a couple hundred pageviews more.
I don't particularily scan around enough to actually find art to comment on. I do leave extensive critiques, but only on pieces that are terrible but have 90 billion ass patting comments. Otherwise, I don't realy find the need especially since everyone around here gets butthurt when it comes to critique
xD Still, I find that dropping carefully worded critiques can help immensely. I've done it with some works of digital art (mostly crappy photo-manipulations), and I've gotten a couple watchers out of it.
And, if you get the time, you could always comment on mine. I love comments. =)
You make enemies too easily. Make friends with the friends of the enemy, so when you confront the enemy, either your friends leave, or you gain support. The smarter and more passive-assertive you sound in the critique, the more friends you get. The more friends you get, the bigger your army.
No, it's not how I'm critiquing. I critique incredibly well. It's who I'm critiquing. Because I bother to critique people like Kaminary or Psyconorikan in a way thats not "OMG SUPA KAWAII" people take that I'm attacking them because thats how immature this website is.
Then make it sound different. Whether you critique well or not, is not the point of my statement. You need to critique in a way that doesn't look like critique. It needs to look, at a glance, like an "I like this and this" statement. Put in a couple of those, stuff a critical point in between, and repeat. It normally gets passed over by the fantard, but the artist may see your critique more easily.
Not everyone on the internet is as rational as you think they are. If I get 100 comments in a day like some of these people do, and they're all, "Great Job" "KAWAII" "Your art is amazing I love this this and this", if it's sugar coated, and in the middle you give some wimpy critique, they won't notice. However, if you say, "This art is nice because of this and this BUT -insert harsh critique here-" rather than, "Ohhh, your art is great but here's a tiny thing you can tweak but this is great too anyway although you can maybe fix a little of this" it will have a greater chance of being noticed.
At what point did I say you should be saying "Oh my god I love your art"?
And if you want someone to really listen to you, send them a PM about their art. Preface it by saying, "I don't want to put this in public, because I'm sure I'll get some hatemail for it..."
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You've got the start of a great gallery, keep it up!
