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• Critical Critique
  by Stephen Mitchell

  The best advantage of displaying our artistic abilities on Redbubble is getting critiqued by artists we revere, treat as mentors, or lear…

  The best advantage of displaying our artistic abilities on Redbubble is getting critiqued by artists we revere, treat as mentors, or learn from their artistic style. But I fear some people are confusing constructive critique and cyber-bullying ... they are far different things. If someone should happen to say “Your work is awful!”, you may find it’s merely the limited vocabulary of someone who really meant to say “You don’t understand that Redbubble is in the business of selling work, not displaying your dog’s water bowl, your work would be better suited for some where like, say, oh, I don’t know … maybe flickr.com. They like that sort of thing.” Those of you who respond to this with “Who gave anyone the right to be judge and jury of my art?” ... You gave them that ‘right’ when you uploaded it to the internet. If you consider the advice (ie, constructive critique of your art-work, either for its merit, composition, camera-style and/or saleability) to be arrogance, you are looking at it from all the wrong angles. Yes, there will be a few comments that may well be a tad aggressive, we’ve all experienced that. But at the end of the day, someone will have something to say about the images you upload to your gallery. Unless you turn off commenting, people are always going to have an opinion, even if misinformed, incomprehensible, and rude. It is most unfortunate when comments are misinterpreted as rude. Maybe they were. There are two options here, but only one is good: / 1. Bitch back, be rude back at them, get angry, tell everyone, make a biggggg deal of it. / 2. Read it a few times. Change the emphasis on each word. Determine if there was any other way it could have been said. Find something in it that helps you. If that doesn’t work, and I’d be surprised if it didn’t: Ignore and delete the comment. / ‘Nuff said.

• On The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (or How To Do Well At One Thing AND Seriously Piss People Off Elsewhere)
  by Lenny La Rue, IPA

  I’m usually not one to make huge overreactionary (That’s not really a word but I’m coining it right now so feel free to use it at will) c…

  I apologize.