Hey Shogun / Will, Enjoyed reading the article and loved the somewhat abstract / theoretical approach to giving feedback. You get told all the time that you need iron scales to work in this Industry, and to a certain degree that's true depending on where you work or post, but at the end of the day and from my experience in…
I didn't agree with everything you said. But as one of the many people out there who find constructive critiques difficult to come by, I think that the core of bad criticism is that nobody has any particular reason to feel invested in one another. Then there is the fact that newbs, including myself take good criticism…
Totally agree with ya, it wasn't proof read, or properly broken down. I really added a lot of unecessary fluff. Comes with the habit of just splurging my thoughts down. The results are grammatical errors.
Personally, I disagree with the idea that critique should take the form of problem-solution. It's worth pointing out small and technical problems, but those aren't the big issues. I used to be big, and I mean big on paintovers, but that's just patching up, it doesn't address the fact that someone made mistakes in the first…
Feedback between client and artist is a different matter all together. The areas of relationship in constructive criticism and feedback my article's was directed towards artist to artist. Sure artists have to have thick skin to a certain degree, but that's exactly what's amazing about our industry. There are so many…
I'd say that's pretty accurate. I know i'm in the polycounter section. Its not too bad though, but I can see how some might feel a bit discouraged. When in that area you are still used to getting tons of crits from being a noob, so the sudden drop off can be alarming. You just gotta think, well no one is saying its shit,…
Hello everyone, I wrote a quick article on some thoughts I had about providing constructive criticsm. Since we are in the media age, a lot of artwork is shared and a lot of feedback goes back and forth. I decided to elaborate on some experiences of mine, and provide some feedback that i'd thought i'd share in terms of…
I do agree there has been a large variety of people on here and it's nice to see how you would break down evaluation of work. I was a teacher for years and it was painful for me to get students to provide more than just "It looks nice." Part of that, in my experience though, was that they were cake-walked through their…
I've noticed Polycounters come in essentially 4 groups of posters, not the critics, but the OPs' 1: I found 3d yesterday!- People who create models that don't resemble much of anything, these peeps are still learning how to use a 3d program much less the art behind it. These threads rarely get many comments. 2: Noobs! -…