nobody cares, you're not being judged, just your work. accept crits as they are, make changes, learn. nobody likes offering up a piece of themselves up to be possibly rejected or ridiculed, but without doing that nobody would have any fun in life. just do it.
I didn't used to fear posting work in a lot of places, tried to maintain sketchbooks, post up things for critique, etc. Then after awhile I started realizing that I was focusing more on getting something "good enough to post" and how many replies (if any) I got, and was focusing less on the work itself. In an odd sort of…