[Spero Mcgee]

Originally Posted by PyroWildcat

Oh Good God, I hate, hate, hate this argument. I was in a poetry class some time back, and in one session, some girl was bitching out our professor for trying to give her advice, basically citing this as the reason; I mean it's not like the guy spent years upon years studying the ins and out of poetry so as to give more informed critique on the subject or anything.

Of course, the kicker is what she finished it off with: "If Oprah went and wrote some poetry like this, you wouldn't be criticizing her about it, would you?" Took every fiber of my being not to yell out "Yes I fucking would!"

Yes, art is largely subjective, and a number of decisions are best left up to the artist. However, skill is also a factor, and I, personally, am completely opposed to artists remaining stagnant because they're not willing to take advice. Even worse in this case, since Opaigamer wants advice.

Ow don't misunderstand me, I fully agree with you if the advice giver is an expert on said topic like in your example. When it comes down to giving advice, you shouldn't be giving advice on matters that you don't fully understand. That is what I sort of was aiming at.
Especially things like art or making music or whatever are things that not exactly everyone can do. It's very easy to say good/great about a skill that you yourself have absolutely no experience with. Aka being impressed even though it's already been done before. As such it's my humble opinion that you can make suggestions, but to give advice we know too little about art to say anything about that.

Originally Posted by Opaigamer

To all those who've commented but are unsure about saying anything bad because they can't draw themselves. Compare my art to some of your favorite deviants. Outside of coloring , what are ways you think I can improve? I'm not asking anyone to be an asshole, just want some thoughts on what would make you think my art is as good as your favorite stuff.

Thanks for the comments so far.

Comparing always feels painfull to me especially if the gap in level is big. But generally if you could draw anywhere like any artist from pixiv really, you could be a favorite. I do not have any favorite deviants. I got dozens of pixiv artists saved though.
I regularly check rabid on furaffinity but that's it. I could suggest using a tablet like what was mentioned and getting certain programmes that help with the process of art, photoshop and adobe something. It still would take quite alot of practise with said tools to get anywhere near as good.

Off-topic: To Pyro, what exactly did the teacher say to that girl? I'm kind of curious how one would teach poetry. Since isn't the basic idea with poetry that one writes down one's thoughts/feelings at a time. It may or may not have to ryhme, but I thought the main thing is conveying something. Unless you're going for a certain ryhme sheme/haiku form. Otherwise does it really matter how one writes it down?