08-29-2015, 02:40 PM
As a newbie, I'm /very/ reticent about giving critique, mostly for two reasons, A/ I can often see a problem, but don't know how to fix it, and that is simply unhelpful to the other person, and B/ I am never sure if I'm right, or if I'd be giving incorrect advice, which again is horribly unhelpful.
Yes a lot of it is self doubt, but I don't want to be handing out wrong advice. As far as I've seen in sketchbooks, mostly everyone else is working levels above me, so I don't know that I have anything valuable to say about their work except 'wow'
Maybe if there isn't already, someone could give tips on how to make useful critique without giving incorrect advice. The few times I’ve tried to help people I've ended up more confused myself because I start second guessing if I'm looking at the work right/ missing something. And when I've done it on dA I've had people tell me I'm wrong about my suggestions - I don't know if I was or that is just dA, but it's done nothing for my confidence to be helpful.
Yes a lot of it is self doubt, but I don't want to be handing out wrong advice. As far as I've seen in sketchbooks, mostly everyone else is working levels above me, so I don't know that I have anything valuable to say about their work except 'wow'
Maybe if there isn't already, someone could give tips on how to make useful critique without giving incorrect advice. The few times I’ve tried to help people I've ended up more confused myself because I start second guessing if I'm looking at the work right/ missing something. And when I've done it on dA I've had people tell me I'm wrong about my suggestions - I don't know if I was or that is just dA, but it's done nothing for my confidence to be helpful.