| Re: Comment on comments (or lack of) |
Subject: Re: Comment on comments (or lack of)
by OCP on 2008/8/28 18:14:38
This is an interesting subject and I for one, agree with what is said before...
Comments bad or good are what make us, wanna be artist or part-time art improve, sometimes we think something is finished and we post and then someone says "It's good but..." and we go back and look at that piece again through that person eyes and try to fix it.
bhm is one of the persons here I admire and speaking for myself, most of you know that I'm not an expert and only started doing manips or any other digital art about a year ago with no previous knowlegde of any computer program so my early pieces were mostly crap ( I still think a lot of them are even now...), and for those beginners like I was, bhm comments sometimes made all the diference about forgeting the all thing or try again and again. I like almost all kind of art we have here ( Manips, Drawings, 3D, fan fiction) and I like to spend some time leaving a comment to the artist since he/she spend some time doing it. I think it's only fair...
As for people might get offended by some comments, I can only understand if it's a personal attack to the artist itself not if it's a constructive criticism...
Personally, I like comments on my work, good or bad. The only comments I don't like are when someone makes a comment on any of my images that have nothing to do with it.
Other thing I noticed: we are mainly an english speaking site but we have grown so much more than that in the present days and we have a lot of people here enjoying this place from all over the world. I know from experience that some of these people don't comment because their knowledge of english is very little, to those I say: don't be afraid of commenting in your own language if you like something... It will be nice if commenting in both languanges : their own and english too but Babelfish exists for something...
I know there are already some members doing that when they know we can understand them or when they comment on a fellow from their own country... so, don't stop and at least on my stuff feel free to do it too. 
As for the non-artist of the site, I'd like to say to them: You're a very important part of Heromorph as it's your comments in the forum, on the images and so on that let us know that we are doing something good and sometimes it's one comment from one of the non-artist that gives us the inspiratition we lack to finish something or gives us an idea for something. So, don't think you're not part of the site or that you guys are not important because that's wrong.
Now...speaking as someone who like to comment on others works, I like to leave a nice comment, sometimes I like to say a lot more than "Awesome work" and I don't do that because I lack words to proper praise some masterpieces but I think the artists can understand that. Sometimes I have a critic to say, even write it in the comment but erase when posting, I do that mostly because I only give a critic when I know the person can take it and understand it as a constructive criticism and that I'm trying to help... If I don't know the person then a "Great job!" will be enough and sometimes makes all the difference to the artist.
If like bhm said some art is really awesome but the subject of it is something I don't like much, I leave a good job and that's it.
Of course, I know we have prima-donas here as most artist are but I also know a few of them and I also know they are not so bad as they want us to think.
Basically what I want to say to all is: YOU (yes, YOU!) are an important part of this site and we appreciatte having you around. 
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