I must say I've never fully understood the critique of 'be more confident' with regard to art... I've had it said to myself many times especially early on and it doesn't really help. Mostly because your basically saying to them to have more trust in their own abilities when often its just something that they may find difficult to draw or new :P

Its like telling a learner driver to have more confidence... Just... Randomly going 'HEY HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE'... Oh wait, my instructor did that to me, just felt like he was belittling me x3

TL:DR - I don't get the whole be more confident thing as a crit x3

I say it to artists who are too rough on themselves, because confidence is key in getting better at anything. If you're not confident, you're stunting yourself.

I can understand why your driver's ed teacher said it to you, because if you're not a confident driver, you're more likely to get into an accident because you're too busy worrying over things instead of paying attention to the road.

True, but I see it often used in reference to a particular piece in the art... I've seen art where say a nose is wonky or the chest anatomy is off and they slap on 'be more confident' and all I think is what the hell x3

Generally speaking yeah, having a good amount of confidence is key =3

I only usually say it when the piece looks good to me, but the artist is being overly hard on themselves about it.

Yeah :3

Thanks, I know I seem a little lacking in confidence sometimes, I know I learn and improve fast but for years now most people have said my main issue is anatomy. This makes me happy to know I'm starting to get the hang of it, those darned legs were 3 years of turmoil and screw ups for me XD

O.O I didn't know you did red lining. Cool! Maybe sometime I should ask for a bit of help with some of my trouble spots.

I probably won't do a million of them... but I'll do them here and there.