Hm... Unfortunately, I'm not good in reading between lines in social interactions. (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵) So I'm often not sure if person "asks for compliment" intentionally, or they sincerely over-criticise their work. Usually I say them something good, just in case. I'm irritated only if it is totally obvious for me that they are asking for attention, which is, again, rare case, because I understand such a things poorly. In this case, I don't say anything.
About effort-consuming drawings, which their creators call garbage... I don't think that if the person have put a lot of effort into drawing, they will necessarily consider it good, and it will not necessarily be objectively good as well. I even can provide the example.
When I've asked for review to my comics, most of reviewers said that in action scenes dynamics is not transmitted, and characters look clumsy and inflexible in them. I'm sure that they are mostly about the first "action scene" (if you can name it that way ):
I think that reviewers are right about it. But reality is, that I've drew and re-drew this scene for many hours during two or three days.
I started to draw it, using the poses from "how to work against the gun" video on the Youtube as the reference. But instead of a gun, I gave her multitool, and added sword to his hand. I hadn't any experience in drawing action scenes at that point, so, I saw that the scene is not dynamic, but my brain didn't understand, what's exactly wrong with it.
I changed different details, like angles of their legs and arms and corpus, bit by bit, so poses changed from those which were in video, but they still remained non-dynamic. I sincerely tried to understand what's wrong, but it was kind of a block. So after I was too tired, I decided to stop working on this "cursed" page and move to the something less stressing.
Only several days after it I have finally understood what's wrong. I compared the pictures of the dudes where they showed the martial arts techniques slowly for learners, and pictures where they used those techniques in fight, to understand, why only the second kind of pictures look dynamic. And I've finally noticed, that the main difference is how the center of gravity of bodies is placed. When they show those techniques slowly, the projection of the center of gravity of their body on the ground remains between their feet. While when they do them quickly, the center of gravity is moving much more freely, according the purpose of moving. This allows them to put their weight into blow or grip, and doing it quickly. But probably people here already know that things so I'll better stop myself now
The point is, that even very time and effort-consuming drawing can give totally unsatisfiable result. So, maybe those dudes who over-criticized their neatly drawings, have seen themselves in the same position...
P.S. By the way, I can't force myself to redraw this picture anymore, even after understanding, because even just looking at this so-many-times-redraw picture causes fatigue.