Becoming a professional artist: Tips

[Pseudo Enigma]

Originally Posted by _.Spitfire._

Today a guy I know asked me for criticism on a song he's working on. Rather than listening to what I had to say he had to justify every point of criticism I made. After he was done ranting I told him I'm merely giving him my opinion, and he has every right to do nothing with it. I also told him he should open up to criticism more and not be so defensive about everything. He then proceeded to say that I am unable to handle criticism as well because I disagreed on ideas he had for some of my drawings in the past. Besides the fact that it's irrelevant to his case wether or not I am able to handle criticism, this ticked me off a bit so I'm going to elaborate my old post a bit on the point of criticism.


Inability to handle criticism is not the same as disagreeing with someone. Everyone will have positive and negative responses to their work and you have every right to disagree with someone's view as there's a lot of subjectivity and differences in taste involved. Not sharing someone's view does not mean you're unable to handle criticism.

A++ I was in a situation like that earlier this week.

Only through mistakes are we able to learn, and when we can't learn from our mistakes we are unable to move forward and improve. I try to take criticism seriously as a method of improving all the time and it HAS helped in the past and it most certainly will in the future.

Don't forget you have your inner critic always criticizing you too, whether you decide to listen to it is up to you. I try to.

P.S. I completely forgot this thread existed. All the stuff in here is very helpful.