Post #739323 by tikiskip on Sat, Mar 14, 2015 5:43 PM

I totally get where Jeff is coming from on this one.

All art types want to hear positive feedback, I don't care what anybody says.
It's part of why we do it.

But here on TC it's a dicey game.
It helps to know the folks that give you feedback.
And the people who get the most hits or feedback WORK at it, hard.
They answer EVERY comment from every person, some give prizes to people who go to
their thread.
And they go to others threads and post on those threads, this gets those people
to hit you back so to speak.
DAM some of them even vacation together.
Not saying this is wrong just a few ways it's done.

I don't really work the social game that hard, if at all.

But you work hard at your art because you like doing it and to get some form of recognition
but time after time it's mostly the same people that end up in a certain book or
other publication and it kinda gets old.

I don't post for TC folks mostly as that is a clique you can never bust up, but OTHERS
outside of TC see my work via the net and come here to see it.
And heck once the friends of and cliques are dead and gone it's your art that will be judged.

You do great work Jeff and I have looked at it often but never posted and maybe should have,
but hey try being a light maker you get way more posts than I do.
The carvers for the most part are a tight group.

Sour grapes?
Sure it is kind of, but then it's always the people with fresh new grapes that wonder
why others are not ok with the crappy old grapes they did not want.

Good luck!
Keep carving.