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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Criticism
There will undoubtedly always be people who will find fault with creation as long as people keep creating. Depending on the level of effort put into the creation, the skill of the creator, and their own ego, any judgment passed on the piece will be met with a response either positive or negative.
How does one measure this response?
If you draw a picture and someone tells you it is crap, what do you do? Most likely, inquire as to how they came to this conclusion and reevaluate the work itself based on your findings. This would apply to peers in your field, more advanced artists, and those who you find some respect in their opinion and views. Random yokel on the street may not have much of a say in your masterpiece, but depending on your goal...a thousand idiots who love your work may be more useful than one genius.
Now where am I going with this...well, DON'T FLIP OUT WHEN YOU GET CRITICISM.
Your ego can be the size of our national deficit (zing!) for all I care, but if you ask for comments on your work, I will respond truthfully. Does that make me right and you wrong? Nope. It means you're getting a view of your work that's removed from yourself, perhaps from friendship, perhaps from any familiarity whatsoever.
whether art or writing or anything, you might want to try remembering that feedback is an important part of the process. If you want it, seek it out and glean what you can from those with more experience. I won't claim to be a great writer, but it's my major, I may know a thing or two. I guess the fact that someone wants comments and I say "needs more detail" only to get yelled at to stop bitching...well, it was rather annoying.
I've had writing I thought was perfect get ripped to shreds by vile professors, so I damn well went back and looked over it, only to find flaws I had never seen before. I think it's a plague on kids who only read manga nowadays and not enough books. They turn around and start writing fanfics with nothing but dialogue, forgetting that people can't "see" the pictures that their word bubbles are in.
Leniency for fanfics aside, (as you can usually shirk on some descriptions, such as characters,) but when this stuff expands into personal characters, stories, and the like...you're going to be stuck with a whole mess of incomprehensible crap.
So either actually USE what people are trying to teach you...or go open a damn book and figure it out yourself.
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