Art tutorials are amazing - they start you on your way, give you the building blocks of a style, show you new techniques, allow you to improve old ones. But what I can not stand is when an art tutorial uses the words:
"Things to avoid"
"This isn't right"
"This isn't a great technique"
"If you draw ... like this you are limiting yourself/doing it wrong/being cliché etc."
DAMNIT ALL! Do you have ANY idea how degrading that is for an amateur artist who was only just deciding they were getting even half decent AND THEN TELLING THEY'VE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING WRONG THE ENTIRE TIME!
You know what, screw you.
I take critism very seriously, I do not throw hissy fits if someone points out "oh, that looks nice but shouldn't that look a bit more like this or that?"
But I don't care what you say, it isn't WRONG. It just isn't right.
Let me explain my rant: my self esteem can take serious blows when I find I'm wrong. I don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I am used to being right, as it were. So when I am told by someone that what I have been doing for a long time is not right, I lose self confidence for quite a while.
*end rant*
Yeaaaaaah, sorry about that, but it was "let off some steam time"
Ta-ra!
-Hannah
