Other than renderosity, I also place some of my work on elfwood, which I've been a member of for a long long time.    I haven't added anything in a long time, as I've been over here at renderosity.

Today, I got notified I made Moderators Choice for my Image "The Valkyrie", and I was thrilled pink!   Its only the second time I got such an honor, so I rushed out of my email to go see it for myself.

Then, i start seeing the comments (some I actually deleted off, two actually by accident meaning to respond), which were horrendous.  Technicalities that I called it in the description a "painting", is it really one?   A 3-d modeller calling it not really art, and "poser is cheap and lifeless"..........   the gist of most had nothing to do with the image itself as a whole, but how it was made.

This image took me HOURS and HOURS to make, regardless of poser use or not!

I found my elation........ deflated in an instant, and questioning myself if I should ever make another image, and maybe by some standard it isn't really "art"....... or maybe I just suck all together.

I have seen topics here before, that others get slammed or "blacklisted" or whatever for using CGI-poser-bryce whatever.   I have no idea what to think, and to go from that high to that low that fast......  I wonder if I am an artist at all.   My day is ruined, so is my desire to make art.