It hurts to be criticized... So why would you show it before finished?
Well, get used to arts, this is why painting s called PAINthing...
Imagine you are renovating an apartment by yourself. You are doing the whoooole work including the design of it: placing tiles on the floor, the walls. Painting the ceiling, placing the forniture, the oven, etc. This is your very first time doing this... it looks kinda good, but you are all the time inside the room, watching your job from close and never taking real perspective from it.
Once you finished, proud of yourself, you invite your friends to see results of your work (and maybe drink some beer). But their answer is far from what you were expecting...
-well... cool mate. But why is it everything so askew?*
*If you don't know what "askew" means, google it, totally worthy.
*And what will you do? You can live in badly finished/designed flat until you get encourage either to move out or to destroy all your work and start all over again. What if someone would actually see your work in progress? What value gives to artist showing the WIP to non-artists?
I am surprised you even ask!
First of all, they are not judging you or your artwork: Sometimes your non-artist friend will see things you never though about just because he/she has a fresh eye from that artwork, and will be able to show you (HOPEFULLY) what is actually failing in it. Doing the problem-recognition much easier than doing it by yourself. Which will also take lots of time because in order to recognize what fails you will need to watch the same thing over and over again with big pauses in between to refresh the eye.
The second thing is that if something is going really wrong, its way easier to fix few tiles and start all over than when you have it already finished. Let's be honest... you will never re-do this messed up drawing because you are too proud and it hurts too much to admit you have failed. Worst of everything is that you must think right now that I am a piece of shit for telling you this. Sorry guys, but I've been there (And still am, DAMN IT!).
Don't be proud and show your work to the people. Let them give you advices. The fact that they don't do arts doesn't mean that they can't tell if there is something wrong in your artwork.
Shut up your ego and keep getting better!
Thanks a lot for your support and I see you in the next one!
(All the images are my own creation and so I own the rights of them)
Special thanks to my girl for the great idea and writing.
I always try to listen to the ideas of my fellow followers to improve my posts and to give something back to the community... therefor: What would you like the next posts to be about? What should I talk about? What kind of painting? Would you like some tutorials about arts, about cooking? Maybe some fresh gaming broadcast? I would love to know!
Bye!