If you're going to produce art, you're going to run into them: critics. No matter how beautiful the artwork, someone is bound to find something wrong with it. Usually, that someone doesn't even make art, themselves, they just love to share their unsolicited opinion.
Take this common scenario, for example. After several hours of painstaking work, you finish a piece that you're particularly proud of. Excited, you show it to the first person you see. They respond with, "It's nice, but the eyes could use some work." Talk about deflating someone's balloon. Suddenly, the confidence that you had in this piece that you were so proud of erodes away as you study the eyes that you thought were fine - even good - just two seconds earlier. Now, you're looking it over with a more critical eye, evaluating, judging, finding fault where there is none.
We've all been there. It's one thing to get the opinion of a customer for whom you're doing a commission or to submit your art for critique; it's another to have some random person give you their unsolicited opinion/advice on your artwork.
Here's the thing: consider the source. It seems that most people who make comments like the one I mentioned above are no experts. In fact, they've usually got a serious case of the jelly beans (they're jealous) and/or they're control freaks. My best advice to you is to take it all with a grain of salt. Art is subjective and as long as you love what you're doing, that's all that matters.
No matter what, keep creating! :) And do it your way.
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