Feedback Thoughts

Personally, I feel like there can really be no improvement without feedback. Being someone who wants to create artwork for a living, all that we get is feedback and criticism. Getting any possible feedback helps tremendously because you can figure out what you have been doing wrong and tweak it to make it look a whole lot better. When it comes to criticism, it has to be constructive because that way you are given the ideas of how someone else would approach a piece and that could greatly help you improve your craft. I remember in high school I had AP studio art, and each week we had critiques on our work and I remember someone telling me that they liked what I made but thought if i tried a different way of shading it would look a lot better and when I applied that idea it really did make huge difference. That same year there was also a time where I showed my piece and this kid looked at it, then looked me in the face and said that he hated the piece. That was a different thing to me because all the feedback I got was constructive but to have someone just say they hated it was huge. I feel like that experience gave me a tougher skin to what others thought about my work because you got to learn to not take things like that to heart. But, overall, I feel like feedback and criticism really help you develop different skills more effectively.