Pay it forward.

[John]

which leads onto one of the other main reasons for joining, besides joining study groups, is getting feedback and Critique, I for one aint the best at giving C&C Im the type that dont like hurting peoples feelings and I still think I aint good enough so I dont have the right... but to me its a big part of the learning process, so for that reason I will try to be more critical and if i see something that may help i will try and point it out....

I don't think it's wrong to hurt other people's feelings if it's in the context of shelling out honest critiques. To push it further, I even encourage other people to brutally dismember what I put out in public. Once a piece is out there, everybody has the right to exercise their opinion about it. Throwing your work out there in the Internet is like putting out your chin for everybody to either punch, or kiss. Fair game.

That's how it goes in real life anyway. Having a thick skin and an open mind are important traits if anybody decides to become an artist. I had friends way back then who were a hundred times better than me pack up and leave the art game just because of how brutal the reality of the industry is. Getting rejected for work, a peer made a better piece than he did, family wasn't encouraging enough, the money isn't coming, or simply, somebody said something silly about his work. You name it. There are worse ways and better excuses to quit.

Just saying, feelings getting hurt should be the least of any artists' problem.