Nian's dump

and mistical miss, I'm glad you are pointing out others mistakes for them, but maybe you should worry less about other peoples work and concentrate on your own? I used to point out other peoples work and then realised I needed to improve a lot of things and I have improved greatly since then! What's to keep him from commenting on other people's work AND getting better at his own? Really good comments are like gold to artists, they're never a bad thing. Gushing "omgz ur so guud" comments are nice, but they don't help an artist improve. There's nothing better than getting a detailed and well-written comment from a fellow artist, who points out the good parts, and the bits that need improving. This is how artists learn, by commenting on others work and getting comments in return.
I don't even like calling them mistakes, they're just "bits you need to improve on".

Oh, and Nian, wonderful post about artists rights. Try not to worry about sounding too stiff or annoyed, lots of artists face the same problems and I think if we just keep on pointing out our rights, people will slowly learn about them.

Oh, sorry for taking ur thread nian and etherealbyte I remember you posting in my thread aswell now ^^. I already had a sketch of the pose, I'll work on that drawing today I don't mind really. It turned out to be quite an interesting read all in all with all the comments on what everybody thinks about artist rights/commenting etc. Personally I appreciate critique because it's really important in my field(I'm a media communications student/major 3D). If it's straight on the dot I don't even need to hear any prettyfied/nicely put versions of it but that's just me. Ofcourse I don't always 'believe' everything someone tells me to work on and I'm mostly looking for things that affect the whole overall mood of the picture since I'm not an art student.

Normally if I would critique someone(which I don't do 'cause it's hard and you have to think. I like pointing out what I liked instead. :P) I'd sandwhich the crit between two positive and encouraging comments.

Either way I'm gonna get back to those commissions now...ahem. XD

Ofcourse I don't always 'believe' everything someone tells me to work on and I'm mostly looking for things that affect the whole overall mood of the picture since I'm not an art student. Well ofcourse not everything someone comments adds to the picture, a big deal of it is style and some of it is just the result of looking at things wrong with your own picture of it in mind. (If you have an idea of what I mean ^^).

Much of the mood of a picture is determined by its colour, which you have a terrific sense of.. (I'm only doing pencil sketches, partly because I draw a lot at school and party because I don't have digital software to work with, so I'm not that experienced with working in colour)

Hope you like it. I'll have to figure out a way to send you the full size version. The file is 11Mb .psd file. :S

Now on to EtherealByte. How about zipping it then uploading it somewhere? That would seem to be the easiest way around it, if you ask me.