On critique
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bladesparkI have had several people now imply that I can't handle hearing anybody say anything but happy-fuzzy compliments of my fursuit work.
I am going to explain why I get annoyed, upset, and pissed-off when I get public crits of my fursuits.
It goes like this: Fursuit making is how I pay the bills. It is my job. I have no fall back, no day job, no other source of income at all. So when I post my fursuits to a public community do you know why I'm doing it? It's NOT to improve my fursuiting work. I do that in other ways. (And yes, I am always trying to improve, I know I'm not perfect yet.) I am posting because I want more customers, so that I can pay the rent. So when there's a negative comment, especially when it's the very first comment there, it completely undermines what I'm trying to do, which is trying to sell the suit. I want everybody to see only good things, so that they will want one like it, and will give me money so I can afford to live.
This is not insecurity. This is trying to make a freaking living.
Also, probably 90% of the so-called critique I get is from people who are less experienced than I am and don't know what the flip they're talking about, or is simply a matter of style and taste. I go out of my way to NOT have my work look like anybody else's, so getting crits based on how other fursuiters choose to do things is worse than useless. Nobody ever gives me technical critiques that would actually be useful, it's all "You should use plastic bowl eyes" "You should have bigger noses" "You should use fur instead of wigs" Yadda, yadda, yadda. None of that helps my improve my abilities, if I took that advice I'd be different, but not better. Switching stylistic stuff like that just means that I'd look like every Latin Vixen wannabe out there. Screw that.
I am going to explain why I get annoyed, upset, and pissed-off when I get public crits of my fursuits.
It goes like this: Fursuit making is how I pay the bills. It is my job. I have no fall back, no day job, no other source of income at all. So when I post my fursuits to a public community do you know why I'm doing it? It's NOT to improve my fursuiting work. I do that in other ways. (And yes, I am always trying to improve, I know I'm not perfect yet.) I am posting because I want more customers, so that I can pay the rent. So when there's a negative comment, especially when it's the very first comment there, it completely undermines what I'm trying to do, which is trying to sell the suit. I want everybody to see only good things, so that they will want one like it, and will give me money so I can afford to live.
This is not insecurity. This is trying to make a freaking living.
Also, probably 90% of the so-called critique I get is from people who are less experienced than I am and don't know what the flip they're talking about, or is simply a matter of style and taste. I go out of my way to NOT have my work look like anybody else's, so getting crits based on how other fursuiters choose to do things is worse than useless. Nobody ever gives me technical critiques that would actually be useful, it's all "You should use plastic bowl eyes" "You should have bigger noses" "You should use fur instead of wigs" Yadda, yadda, yadda. None of that helps my improve my abilities, if I took that advice I'd be different, but not better. Switching stylistic stuff like that just means that I'd look like every Latin Vixen wannabe out there. Screw that.
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Date: 2008-01-10 12:32 am (UTC)It'd be like telling an artist "well, instead of doing your eyes like this, you should do anime eyes! & her hair shouldn't be in a ponytail, but it should hang down her back. & be purple instead of brown"
Who does that? Seriously.
style crits SUCK
Date: 2008-01-10 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: style crits SUCK
Date: 2008-01-10 08:57 pm (UTC)I eventually told him to get bent. It was annoying, if you're going to commission an artist, then ask them to draw in a style that's different from what they normally do in order to imitate someone else, then you should just be commissioning the artist that you want the person to imitate
(I really hope that made sense)
Re: style crits SUCK
Date: 2008-01-10 09:15 pm (UTC)Re: style crits SUCK
Date: 2008-01-11 07:19 am (UTC)To a limited extent i enjoy commissions that give me a challange of sort of imitating a style, but i want to artistic liscence to do my own thing. I have never commisioned an artist whose style i didn't like, because that's a waste of both our time and my money!
In all seriousness, if you want a goldenwolf drawing, you need to find someone who normally draws in her type of style, or better yet, HER!
That guy sounds like a dipshit....
Re: style crits SUCK
Date: 2008-01-11 08:08 am (UTC)I remember once he commissioned a doberman. He sent me a photograph, to use as reference for the markings, & I coloured his commission (I work in traditional media - this becomes important in a minute)
When I showed him the finished commission, he told me that it wasn't at all what he wanted, because he wanted the doberman mostly black, except for a couple spots (paws & eyebrows if I remember correctly). Except that the reference picture looked nothing like what he actually wanted, & there was no way in hell I'd re-do the whole picture just because he was a dipshit