It's not insulting my work that bothers me so much, it's the disgust that's behind every one of the nasty comments. I don't care if people don't like my work, because I like it, and I know other people like it. I know people are allowed to express their opinions, and I don't have a problem with that, but that means i'm allowed to express my opinions by hating and pitying the people who leave such comments.

And by the way, no matter how secure someone is in their work, or themselves, they are ALWAYS aware of what other people think of them. They want approval, and when they don't get it, it pisses them off just a little. I personally try to put as much effort as I can into my artwork, I basically put a peice of myself up there on display every time I post a new peice. And if that peice of me is rejected, It makes me upset.

And no one is ever completely secure in their work. You can constantly tell yourself how good it is...but there's always a part of you that doubts it. You can always manage to find something wrong with it, no matter how confident you are. So yeah, try as I might to deny that it bothers me at all, it does bother me.

So yeah. You keep making art, I'll keep making art. We'll all keep making art, and I'll keep attempting to accept other people's opinions, not matter how different they may be.
But that doesn't mean I won't send nasty comments right back.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw

"I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot."
--Bertram Wilberforce Wooster