03-09-2016, 01:18 PM
@PurpleScissors, thank you for sharing! I'm sorry to hear you didn't get much back. Honestly, when I was commenting in people's sketchbooks, sometimes I would get one comment and then nothing back, or nothing at all. Eventually I started getting a few, just by carrying on posting my work.
The way I see it, is to not help someone in order to get some sort of reward back. The reward should be in the giving of the crit without expectations.
I actually stopped updating my sb here as well because it wasn't really getting me many crits, and I didn't personally need the motivation of seeing improvement or documenting my steps, so I stopped. BUT it did not wreck my self-confidence, because at that time I also realised that my reason for doing art is not dependent on other people liking it or commenting on it. I do it because I WANT and LOVE to. That should be enough.
Don't be discouraged, keep posting. Join in the Crimson Crucible challenge that will be starting soon. We will be pushing people to crit others as part of the ethos of the competition!
The way I see it, is to not help someone in order to get some sort of reward back. The reward should be in the giving of the crit without expectations.
I actually stopped updating my sb here as well because it wasn't really getting me many crits, and I didn't personally need the motivation of seeing improvement or documenting my steps, so I stopped. BUT it did not wreck my self-confidence, because at that time I also realised that my reason for doing art is not dependent on other people liking it or commenting on it. I do it because I WANT and LOVE to. That should be enough.
Don't be discouraged, keep posting. Join in the Crimson Crucible challenge that will be starting soon. We will be pushing people to crit others as part of the ethos of the competition!