Disney Guru wrote:
You have inspired me to stop doing my coustom artworks so I can save your eyes from anymore of my stuff.
Good god, this is why I did a PM instead of flat out saying it, but if you're gonna take it like a weepy child, I might as well say what I really mean.
First, my PM, which would have gone in the thread, but I didn't want to seem heartless:
I kind of echo DisneyChris's constructive criticism. Not wanting to be mean, but if peeps keep telling you "Looks great! Keep up the good work!", it won't improve. I'm not trying to hurt your feelings either, but you just gotta realize that your current work is just...not good.
Back when the thread was started, I remember them being nothing more than movie posters with "DVD Video" pasted in a corner (despite your saying they were "enhanced", they looked just like th movie posters). Then it moved on to a simplistic rectangular box with one or two screencaps, and the title and stars in a simplistic font. And now, while you have varied a bit in design, in the end, to me they still look like $1 DVD knock-off covers, or movie posters with a few extraneous and unneeded things. For example, the Tammy Tell Me True artwork looks like the original VHS cover, and all you added was an awkwardly-placed screencap, VHS in the corner, and the stars on the bottom, and the fonts don't even match up with the original cover, making it look awkward. And in Tammy and the Doctor, it looks like an obvious cut and paste since the yellow background with the large screencap does not match up with the yellow background of what I assume is the original movie poster.
And yet people like Luke, Renata, Maerj, they continue to feed false compliments, perhaps to boost your self-esteem, perhaps because they try to look at it optimistically, perhaps because they're blind. The false compliments will not help you in the real world, there will be people who will look at this, say "It sucks" and not think at all how you feel when they say that. It's the hard truth, and one that's best learned early. Brutal honestly can hurt (that's why it's brutal), but it helps. Even though this is fan artwork, and it most likely will never be a professional DVD cover, it can always use improvements, and if people continually say "It gets better and better each time!" when they continue to be below-mediocre, they are not helping you at all.
I know it may seem harsh, but it's the truth.
And now, what I really really wanted to say...
You come here and post your DVD "artwork". In my opinion, they're not good. Hell, I'm gonna be brutally honest. I don't like them and I think they suck. Trimming (or as you call it "enhancing) an old movie poster, an old comic book, an old VHS cover, or the existing DVD cover and adding screencaps and non-matching fonts does not make it a DVD cover.
But people don't want to hurt your feelings, so they continually tell you it's
great, it's
wonderful, it's
improving, when in fact, IT'S NOT.
A few of us offer constructive criticism, we tell you programs you can use to make it better. DisneyChris and I recently both offered advice, but in previous pages, you can see that others also have offered their advice. And yet, you continue to produce bad artwork. It may look good to you, and maybe that's all that should matter, but when you publicly display the "artwork", you leave it out there for people to judge and criticize as they like.
We offer you advice, but rather than take the advice maturely and say "Thank you, I'll try that", you decide, "Boo-hoo, you guys don't like me or my work, I'll stop and I'll keep spelling custom wrong with the stupid O". (Side note: PLEASE TELL ME WHY IN THE WORLD YOU SPELL IT WITH AN O!) If that sob story is supposed to get sympathy out of others and prompt them to say "No, that's just them Guru!
WE love your covers! They're great!", they'll just be feeding you false compliments and it will do NOTHING to improve your "artwork".
I'd like to say something positive, like "get one of the programs DisneyChris recommended, and in time we can see some good stuff", but I feel it will fall on deaf ears, as it has been said before in the previous pages by previous posters, and still you have not listened. If you keep taking these false compliments, you will not get better.
Escapay
