Thanks very much for posting that, I think I'll print it out(if I'm allowed to?)

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Sure, you can print it out.

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Hey this helps out alot. Lately I've just been browsing around and always a bit afraid to do any critiques thinking I might say something wrong and get my head bit off. This is really helpful thanks ^^

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I try and use these guidelines when I comment on people's work on the internet. The only hard thing is using them in real life. I hate it when people ask me to give them an honest criticque in person, cause I never want to hurt people's feelings.


I think I'll try practicing though.

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there would be hope.

-well, since I try to be an optimist, I'd eat my friend......

It is harding giving them in real life... There's a boy in my art class who always asks for opinions about his works and he's very talented, but as soon as you say something that he doesn't agree with, he flips out and starts complaining about how much he sucks. I definitely prefer giving and receiving crits online instead - It's much less personal.

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This is excellent. Constructive criticizm is a very important subject for me and I've had a lot of arguments about it in the past. I will show it to those people who can't criticize properly... and see if it'll help them!

Geez, I never expected to find something like this in DA ^^. Thanks, it really helps.

both tutorials were a nice refresher... thanks

Hmm... This shall be useful. Very useful. Mwahahahaha. Or something. Yay. Thanks for writing this.

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Excellent critique guide. Though it's not very lengthy nor does it offer many in depth examples, it's detailed and well written. If I were to read this as a new member of deviantART, I'd probably be more likely to create constructive comments rather than leave one liners.

If you're interested in our cause, I've recently started up The Comment Revolution as an initiative to educate deviants on the positives of leaving better comments, both for the artist and the critic. More information is available in my journal entry The Comment Revolution: Part 2.

Using this and expanding on it, I think this sort of critique guide could be vital to deviantART and could possibly be included in some sort of "new user guide" to help put the word out there. Thanks for giving us something structured to refer to when commenting.

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