Mithmeoi

Nothing is more annoying than BAD critique when it comes to art, unless it’s when you give a good critique and the person rages at you. I get it often that someone will post a negative comment about my art but it’s not so much that it’s negative that annoys me. It’s HOW they say it, sometimes they just do it to be “mean”.

“You don’t know what the **** you are doing with this piece, the angles are totally off. Did you even try?”

Harsh much? Although this IS an opinion it is really written in a nasty tone. If you are going to state an opinion about something it’s best to say something like oh it’s not too bad but I think this could have been improved on. Never just bash something if you want to remain on the artist’s good side. Unless you’re a troll and have nothing better to do with your life than to piss people off.

It’s also really annoying when someone attempts to critique but they don’t know how. The art of good critiquing has been lost.

“The face looks wrong”
“Ok how should I fix it?”
“I dunno the face just looks wrong.”
“Ok well… what do you think is wrong about it?”
“I don’t know it just doesn’t look right.”

That’s about as helpful as headphones are to a deaf person. Seriously. If you can’t help, don’t say anything at all cause chances are the artist already knows of the flaw just doesn’t know how to fix it. I know some people want to help, they can see a flaw they just don’t’ know what to suggest, but regardless it’s still pretty annoying.

The other that really annoys me is when an artist either says they take critique or they don’t mind it and then they rage at you for trying to give them help. I get this often enough. People will enable critique on their deviant art account or say in the comments they want critique then they either get angry at me and yell, delete my comment, or they say oh thank you for the critique, then they finish their piece and totally ignore everything I have suggested. The last one annoys me the most, they know of the issues, they even say I have good points, but they refuse to even try to better the piece. It’s either their too lazy or too arrogant to take any kind of help from anyone.

If you ever critique a piece of art, or just want to give an honest opinion, my tip is always say something positive to balance out the negative in it. It’s ok to be blunt, but just make sure it’s not mean or won’t come across as you are just trying to put the artist down. Granted there are some artists out there that are WAY too sensitive to even a blunt but still nice critique and they kind of need a kick in the pants, but there are many that like a good critique so long as it’s balanced.

I know I have blabbed about this before but this is just something that annoys the spit out of me. I have another rant but I’ll save that for the next entry.
So now my question of the week for you folks, what is something that annoys you badly and why?