
1. A skill grows by itself if a person does a lot of it. The more you do something, the better you get it. And in order to be motivated to engage in creativity, it must bring positive emotions, and not a blow of criticism.
2. Criticism can improve a skill, but has the person asked for someone to improve it? He can do this for his own pleasure and amusement. You do not have to respond to other people's creativity with either criticism or praise. You don't have to react to this.
3. Creativity is not politics, where you have to criticize the authorities and public institutions so that your life does not get worse. Someone else's creativity does not directly intersect with your life and does not affect it. You can just step aside and support what you really like with praise.
4. Finished work can always be done better. This is true even for the greatest masters of their craft. But the author is not always ready to spend many more hours of his life, additional strength and inspiration on this.
5. Think of the movie or book that you love the most and consider to be true perfection. You will probably find people who, on the contrary, do not like it very much. Criticism cannot be completely objective. You will just ruin the mood of the person who did something. Just because this topic or technique is "not for you".
Finally, the most important thing. I am not against criticism. But "critics" are very often offended if the author or the author's audience responds sharply. They forget that any utterance is as much a public act as the creativity to which they react. And criticism of criticism is quite appropriate and natural. Therefore, either everyone should be silent so as not to hurt someone's feelings, or they should be free to respond both to someone else's creativity and to someone else's criticism. Personally, I am in favor of the second option.
2. Criticism can improve a skill, but has the person asked for someone to improve it? He can do this for his own pleasure and amusement. You do not have to respond to other people's creativity with either criticism or praise. You don't have to react to this.
3. Creativity is not politics, where you have to criticize the authorities and public institutions so that your life does not get worse. Someone else's creativity does not directly intersect with your life and does not affect it. You can just step aside and support what you really like with praise.
4. Finished work can always be done better. This is true even for the greatest masters of their craft. But the author is not always ready to spend many more hours of his life, additional strength and inspiration on this.
5. Think of the movie or book that you love the most and consider to be true perfection. You will probably find people who, on the contrary, do not like it very much. Criticism cannot be completely objective. You will just ruin the mood of the person who did something. Just because this topic or technique is "not for you".
Finally, the most important thing. I am not against criticism. But "critics" are very often offended if the author or the author's audience responds sharply. They forget that any utterance is as much a public act as the creativity to which they react. And criticism of criticism is quite appropriate and natural. Therefore, either everyone should be silent so as not to hurt someone's feelings, or they should be free to respond both to someone else's creativity and to someone else's criticism. Personally, I am in favor of the second option.
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Sound advice. I'm continually shocked at how many people - often including other artists - think artists should be open to any and all criticism by default because they posted their work publicly, that asking permission isn't necessary, and that disagreeing with either of those things means you only want an echo chamber of asspats. It's exhausting.
Drives me especially nuts when it's on a commission, trade, or gift piece, because then you're pointing out the flaws to the recipient as well.
Drives me especially nuts when it's on a commission, trade, or gift piece, because then you're pointing out the flaws to the recipient as well.
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