@paka_nga_yawa's post on Artfol
Question: What's the worst "criticism" someone has ever said about your art?
Mine was that my artwork is meaningless because I didn't give it a good one. That specific artwork was a gift I made for a friend, it was shipart between her oc and Zhongli. Of course I won't be able to give it "meaning", it's not my oc, and I don't play Genshin. It's shipart, what more meaning do I have to give other than "oh I made this for a friend, and it's her oc and zhongli being in love"?
After that the conversation became an argument as to what art truly was. I was trying so hard to keep my composure and not go ham on his ass.
This happened 7-8 months ago
Aug 18, 2021
Mine was that my artwork is meaningless because I didn't give it a good one. That specific artwork was a gift I made for a friend, it was shipart between her oc and Zhongli. Of course I won't be able to give it "meaning", it's not my oc, and I don't play Genshin. It's shipart, what more meaning do I have to give other than "oh I made this for a friend, and it's her oc and zhongli being in love"?
After that the conversation became an argument as to what art truly was. I was trying so hard to keep my composure and not go ham on his ass.
This happened 7-8 months ago
Aug 18, 2021#qotd
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not really criticism because i cant think very well right now but once my dad said “why is his bulge so big” LMAOOO
i have gotten some strange yet very funny comments on my art
i have gotten some strange yet very funny comments on my art
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•Someone once just flat out called my art bad. It was back in elementary school so of course my art was bad 
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Well I don’t know how to say this but my sister once said this in a rage that “I can’t draw so I should just leave it” I mean it was years ago but I really admired her art at that time so like coming from a person I respected I guess it impacted my younger self a lot.
Right after she said that I had stopped drawing. Now I don’t let such unnecessary statements get to me :)
Right after she said that I had stopped drawing. Now I don’t let such unnecessary statements get to me :)
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•once i sent my irl friend art of our favorite character and he asked "why are her eyes so big" .....because i draw chibis and they're bug eyed little friends? honorable mention to the person on my insta who simply left the comment "ugly" on a piece, i plan to print it out and frame it one of these days
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•"There are no lines in art!" So ... every comic, cartoon, semi realism or sureal style is no art?
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•Dang... That sounds bad, art shouldn't be seen that it needs to have a really "deep" meaning, still, a gift for a friend already have a good meaning 
There was that time my pops in response to an anthro Lizard-Fairy-Esgrimist character I designed said "Very extrange whoever came with that" without knowing I made them, still, that was ages ago and now he's cool with that kind of art
And here's other, an Uncle always used to said that I should make something original, I always thought it was for the Fanart, and I still have made a lot of original characters, but later realized he meant original as making a story with a character, like a comic or something
There was that time my pops in response to an anthro Lizard-Fairy-Esgrimist character I designed said "Very extrange whoever came with that" without knowing I made them, still, that was ages ago and now he's cool with that kind of art
And here's other, an Uncle always used to said that I should make something original, I always thought it was for the Fanart, and I still have made a lot of original characters, but later realized he meant original as making a story with a character, like a comic or something
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•The one critic that i didn’t inmediately forget has to be that one time some dude on amino told me my drawings were dumb bc they had 3 fingers 
i literally laughed so hard-
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•I haven’t gotten a lot really 
But once some random on deviantart added one of my drawings to a collection called “the worst f*cking cringe DA has to offer” or something like that. I just thought it was funny cause it was an innocent pic of my OCs on a beach, I’ve seen much worse ‘cringe’ there lol
But once some random on deviantart added one of my drawings to a collection called “the worst f*cking cringe DA has to offer” or something like that. I just thought it was funny cause it was an innocent pic of my OCs on a beach, I’ve seen much worse ‘cringe’ there lol•
•I remember one time I showed my mom this really detailed drawing I did of two of my OC’s in a room, and my mom said something along the lines of “why are her thighs so big?”. Felt very unnecessary but also projected her idea that all bodies should look a certain way :/
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•So in am art class in 5th grade I had a sub in my class and I had finished the assignment early so I was drawing on the back of the paper. The sun saw that and said , “ Oh nu uh this is not gonna work, that style is unacceptable and this is destroying the art on the front of this page I need you to erase it right now.”
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•In a phrase: “you like that Japanese stuff, don’t you.” This was from a professor when I was 19 or 20.
I’ve been trying to get away from anime influence since I was 14.
To her credit, though, I don’t think she MEANT to hurt my feelings? She’s really nice to me, I think she just doesn’t like my figure work very much
which like, she’s entitled to that.
I’ve been trying to get away from anime influence since I was 14.
To her credit, though, I don’t think she MEANT to hurt my feelings? She’s really nice to me, I think she just doesn’t like my figure work very much
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•Mmm well once an art teacher said my sketches looked like coloring book pages, but honestly, fair, everyone including me hated that class so I didn’t put much effort into it
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•The non-troll comment that stung the most was when an acquaintance said that their heart "hurt" any time they saw my art and that there were many simple ways to improve. I know they didn't mean it in a rude way, but it was bad enough for me to cry over the fact that I was mostly likely looking at the "wrong places" to improve. This was last year.
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