Negative Commenters who JUST KEEP READING

[IdiotWithPencil]

you should thanks the wall posting ones it's free publicity also that really gets under their skin

[keii4ii]

I strongly disagree with this. Yes, any creator with serious aspirations to go pro should develop a thick skin against criticism... but not everyone is in it to be pro. Some people are doing this as an escape from the rest of their life. Others just have severely damaged egos and need more time (and encouragement, hence their posting on the 'net) before they can take criticisms like a healthy person.

Giving an unsolicited criticism is one of those things that yes, you CAN... but doesn't mean you SHOULD.

[IdiotWithPencil]

ok I get what your saying, but to that I say "you are not your art" they are critiquing your creation not you, also this is the internet if you don't want comments or critisism don't post(seriously the internet is a rabid beast that can go off on you for the dumbest things), also all artist need critisisms to grow even if it hurts it's the only way, encoragement (or bootlicking in most cases) only hurts the artist and inflates their ego to unhealthy standards(see all the crazy artist that came from DA with zero critiques or with full "encoragement"), I'm not saying be and idiot and post, ugh thiz sucks you should quit, I'm saying post real problems like lighting, pacing, problems with continuity or just get better at such thing, hell send tutorials or examples, if this hurts the ego then so be it, it's the only way to grow

also think skinn is more for the trolls not so much for critiques :V

[keii4ii]

Not everyone is doing it to grow. Like I said, some people just want an escape.

Besides, doing a serious critique takes time. Might as well save it for those who WANT it.

also all artist need critisisms to grow even if it hurts it's the only way, encoragement (or bootlicking in most cases) only hurts the artist and inflates their ego to unhealthy standards

Again, not everyone is the same. The same word of encouragement may have that effect on one person, while it might do something completely different for another.

[IdiotWithPencil]

an escape? this is the intenet dude a beast of chaos and crazyness bundled up in cats and knives, if you want to escape here that's ok but someone will come and will critisice your art, the sooner the better, cause if you just get "encoragement" you will phill fish dude and then you will implode and burn, and that is worst than just a simple hey I think you should work harder at anatomy, also they can easily ignore these words, they're just words on a screen it's not like your putting a knife to their throats

[Luminosophy]

I attracted a person who stalked me for about 4 years (and probably still ongoing) just by being on an art blog and used to leave anonymous hateful comments on my art there every time I posted until she realized we all knew these multiple anons were her. She'd say stuff like "nice photoshop grass" and complained my lineart was "generic". A lot of criticsms that didn't really make any sense (Never used stamp brushes and been doing dynamic line weights since forever.) We found out later this person has a history of latching onto certain artists, posting about them on Encyclopedia Dramatica (made a page about myself and a friend) and bitching whenever they'd have any success. Like one artist got onto a TV show in Japan because of her comic and it majorly upset them.

I think it was extreme insecurity lashing out at other people with a mixture of genuine sociopathy. Not that I have any sympathy for her because she even tried to doxx me. Truly, ignoring these people is the best way to handle them. Just let them scream into the abyss and onlookers will laugh. The most ironic thing I think, was this person had major delusions about becoming a successful manga-ka and living in Japan. So it explains why the comic artist upset them so much and probably why I pissed them off too, because I had been talking about plans to start my own. In ithe ED article she wrote about my comics being worthless and "no wonder I got kicked out from home."

...Oh man I remember one time she even demanded we all apologize to her because she attempted suicide over us "cyber bulling" her. It was a wild ride.

[LordVincent]

just words on a screen it's not like your putting a knife to their throughts

I hate the "just words on a screen" phrase because some of us actually recieve death threats. That doesn't go just for creators, it goes for pretty much anyone.

I was a victim of online sexual exploitation/abuse, emotional manipulation and death threats.

You can talk about thick skin all you like, but not all words on the screen are just words on a screen.

[IdiotWithPencil]

I am talking about critizm not death threats, trolls not sociopath, I mean some one calling your art bad isn't the same as someone sending you a death threat, or a photo of your house, please don't treat both of these as the same cause they aren't

sorry to hear about that and I hope your ok and that this dosen't happen to anyone ever :C

(also please don't trivialize such a horrible expirience with something so stupid and benign as critism or trolls)

[allenthomas]

I've had this happen to me one some occasions but not as bad as some of the horrible experiences I've heard other comic creators deal with. The most interesting one that I got was someone who went through numerous pages of mine explaining why I shouldn't have drawn something, I drew something wrong, or my comic would be better with a good artist. Freaking trolls.