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This is an old name with questions asked every time I say it... Moving over to my alternate account. 
If you're interested in knowing my new account, just ask and I'll send you a note with a link.

I'll be checking this for maybe a week, so until the 7th of September of 2013.

This account just doesn't interest me anymore. 

It was nice knowing you all <3
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I haven't received much critique lately to be honest, but my girl has so I thought I'd talk about how I've seen people critique... and how I try to critique.

Now, I've had loads of people say they really like how I critique and that really means a lot because I personally believe critique should be helpful rather than hurtful. Yes, it's going to hurt when someone tells you that you messed up... But it's going to hurt less when they point out what they like and suggest to you how you can fix things in the future.

I've seen critiques where people do nothing but be nice... That's great and all, builds up your self esteem... but it also feels like they're just being nice and not helping. It's not telling you how to improve either, which is why critique is important, it should help you improve...

I've also seen critiques where people do nothing but tear you down as well... Not always in a mean way, but they don't always tell you how to fix it either... which is basically telling you you messed up, you should fix it. But it's not giving you any suggestions on how to fix it either... so now you feel like crap. Whether they meant to or not, it affects you and can sometimes discourage artists from sharing anymore or trying to improve...

So rather than tell someone, "That arm is wonky"... why don't you try to tell them how it's "wonky" and suggest how to fix that? Perhaps if the forearm is just a little long or if the shoulder needs to be extended or lowered... Bring out the part between the shoulder and the neck a little to make it look more natural...

It frustrates artists when they get told something is just plain wrong, especially when they don't always know how to fix it... Sometimes the comment is too vague to tell what's wrong anyways...

So, because these things frustrate me when I see them, I try to aim my critique to be helpful by telling some things that I like, telling what I think could be fixed, and suggesting how to fix it. This way it's not tearing at someone's self esteem but it's also being helpful with their artwork.

Of course, I also usually don't give critique unless asked. That's another important thing, if you don't see it somewhere then ask before you critique. I had a really nice person ask me and I kindly told them no thank you but that's really important that they asked first. Some pieces of work people aren't looking for critique... Which is okay, some people are possibly having a bad day or whatever and just don't want to risk feeling worse, that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that.

So, in conclusion... well... the tl;dr is below.

TL;DR: It's possible to do a critique without being too nice or too rude, try it sometime and don't forget to actually suggest how to fix what's wrong. Also, if you don't see it, ask before you critique to make sure it's okay.
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Practicing...

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I'm learning to better my anatomy... currently going through a free 30 day course of lessons online to learn how to draw faces better and so far it's pretty fun o3o

Right now learning about eyes and eyebrows, the next lesson series will be proportion. I'm excited c:
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we had to do laundry... we had no clothes clean whatsoever... my appointment today was cancelled anyways... (they called a half hour before to cancel on me...)

so grambo drove us to daisy's adopted parent's house and we were doing laundry all day... the car is dead so we knew we would have to rely on them to get home... well sometime after the dad got home he came in and told us to leave the bedroom so he could talk to HIS family... which is him, the mom, and the son right now...

we go out to the living room and later there's yelling and slamming and daisy and i are trying not to freak out, we just want to go home... well the mom says not right now, now's not the time... so they fight some more...

when she's finally ready, she walks out and she's like NOW so we have to rush our things together because we thought they'd be longer... well on the way home we got pulled over because her headlight was out... on top of that, the ride was pretty much silent the whole way...

i got home and proceeded to have a panic attack... i can't deal with fighting... i just can't do it...

we're not going back for a while... i'm going to go curl up and try not to cry some more... i just can't do this.
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Well... alright... so the car is more than likely DEAD. That's great... she can't even get down the road, we don't know what's wrong... we've been trying to get Daisy's Dad's help and he was SUPPOSED to come over three days ago... (More like last year he should have started looking at it but whatever...)

Anyways, they blow us off for three days and then complain because we walked to try and get food when they finally decided they were gonna show up. Whatever...

They get out here and give our neighbors dirty looks as if our neighbors are going to attack them... (Dude, we don't talk to our neighbors and they don't talk to us, it's that easy.)

Her Mom comes in and uses the excuse that she has to use the bathroom to go looking through our bathroom. How do we know? Well, she took WAY less than usual to "use the bathroom" (which is weird considering she has a hard time getting up and down from a toilet so why would it take so little...) and then when we went in there after she left, the shower curtain was half open... We had it closed because we had some things in there... Personal things.

It's none of your business what we do in our house, lady.

Then she comes out and is all sweet to the dog and cat but as she's going out the door, "OH HAI, GUESS I SHOULD SAY HI TO YOU TOO, HUH?"

Thanks for recognizing I exist...

Aside from that... The Dad decided to flip Daisy some crap saying "Oh it's not stalling out." Well take it out of park... Okay, then it stalls out 7-8 times just sitting there in drive OR neutral... It sounds terrible, clanks and groans and is so angry...

Well he has no idea... should have known. That's what he always says but usually he pretty much sums it up with we must be lying... And now he's upset because he can't get the car to his house to look at it...

Well if you looked at it when we had asked you to... then we wouldn't have this problem, now would we? But no, it's our fault... as always...

So now we have to rely on her poor Grambo to take us to our appointments this week (Poor Grambo, bless her) and we're STILL the bad kids... because we're different. We're not their blood kids, poor Daisy has to deal with discrimination from them and I'm just ignored most the time or given bad looks... We're treated like we're retarded or broken or something... Because we're not like them.

We came to you for help. You blew us off until we could no longer make it to your house to clean your house. Do not treat us like it's our fault. We've been trying to get help for over a year now.

Suck it up and own up to your mistake.
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