And y'know, I don't think I'm very good at taking critisism well. I want to but sometimes it hurts a lot.
That's just life. If you don't want the public to judge you and your product, go be an anonymous paper-pusher somewhere. Which you won't do, because as an artist, you thrive on the affirmation and praise of others. You
crave it. There might be artists who can draw solely for their own enjoyment. If there are, we don't know about them because they don't post their work around on the internet.
You're still young, younger than I was when I started. Give it time. You'll stop caring so much about things, and you'll learn not to let criticism--constructive or otherwise--get to you so much. The
worst thing you can do is write off criticism you don't like as "abuse", like Dominic Deegan's Mookie does--and utterly fail to improve after drawing every day for 10 years. Mookie's mistake is drawing this artificial distinction between "criticism" and "abuse."
All criticism is useful, whether it's phrased nicely or not. Take it from me. I faced down the worst Pooshlmer and SA had to offer. And while I still have much to learn, I'm
stronger for the experience.
