Well, They're Just Mean!

How many of us want to learn how to draw better? If you are drawing or are interested in it I can bet that most of you all want to improve your drawing skills. Have you ever asked for a critique on a drawing? Did you like what the person had to say about it? Maybe they started off by saying

"Your anatomy is all wrong, your proportions don't look like what your trying to draw and you should learn how to shade!" Ouch. Ever hear a comment like this for something you drew? I have, and it stings at first blush. "Oh my gosh how could they say something like that!" you think?

The answers simple, it's because these are the people who are going to tell you what's wrong with it, you asked, how it looked or what you could do to improve, and maybe if you didn't you just caught someone to critique. In any case, if what they say is true it's true. Instead of going along with our automatic reaction of just saying how mean the person is, try taking the advice and studying the things they said were wrong and try again. No one ever got better if they didn't realize something as wrong with it in the first place. It's nice to get positive comments, we all like them but sometimes the comments you need are the ones you don't really want to hear.