How do people react to your artwork?

[chocovelvetcake]

If anyone has ever seen your artwork (online or irl) before, how did they react? Was their reaction to your art positive or negative? Feel free to reply with your experiences!

Post automatically merged: Mar 6, 2025

Whenever I show people my artwork in real life, I get showered with compliments. My family members especially like my artwork and would sometimes tell me I should work for Disney or something like that. As a child, drawing was a huge interest of mine. I used to draw a ton of ocs and all sorts of fictional characters from my fixations at the time. I even created comic series and dreamt of creating my own cartoon/comic series one day.

As for people online, well, the reactions are mostly positive. I have gotten a few hate comments on my artwork every now and then, which made me feel bad about my artwork. Sometimes I joke about how I "draw like a 6 year old" and that I "can't draw." I would often feel jealous of other artists and compare my art to theirs and thinking they were better artists than me. I would even post my artwork online and ask for constructive criticism or ask people to rate my art out of 10 or 100 in an effort to try and boost my confidence.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

I've had mixed opinions on my artwork since I was a kid, but I've mostly gotten positive comments. I used to make comics in elementary school, and I would make a bunch for our school's "newspaper" (which was just a single sheet of paper about school events and announcements). I've had classmates tell me they loved my comics, which was nice to hear especially since I had an impression that they didn't like me back then.

That isn't to say that every piece I made had the best responses. I made a satirical comic once, and one of the panels featured my parents arguing about something (which wasn't even serious in retrospect). My parents weren't happy about it and told me to throw it out, which I was naturally upset about. T_T I've also had some people make a few rude judgements about my art, which demotivated me to the point where I stopped entirely. (I've gotten over it at this point, though.)

Anyway... I'm glad I got to share my art on TBT because I've gotten nothing but kindness and support from many lovely members here, even when my art started off as, well... Not good. I've improved over the past three years, and I probably wouldn't have the motivation to continue making art if it weren't for their support.

Every so often, I come back to some advice one of my friends gave me a few years ago: "Don't compare your art to others'. Compare your own art to see how much you've improved and gotten better. As long as you're happy with your work, that's what matters." I still think it's quite relevant to me.

 

[BTCircley]

Many seem to be positive about my art style, especially after 2023.

 

[Dunquixote]

On Twitter, the artists doing the art share were really kind and encouraging. I thought for a long time other comments were positive but now I realize they were either passive aggressive or kinda rude like when I shared a sketch of fire emblem characters as animal crossing villagers or a persona 5 animal crossing crossover drawing someone was like: “Animal crossing, why am I not surprised.” I shared a picture of a drawing I did of Final Fantasy XV food and someone was like, “Why food?” I have no plans sharing there anymore. Plus I’m taking a break from there.

I’ve gotten a more positive response here and a lot of encouragement; I feel more comfortable posting here and plan on sharing more when I can. I was thinking of making a new art thread for my art eventually too once I finish a drawing that I’m doing.

 

[VernalLapin]

People are thankfully almost always really sweet to me. I still like having a smaller audience because it seems to mean less drama.

 

[QueenCobra]

People used to hate it, but over time, as I’ve improved, reception has been mostly positive.

 

[Suguri]

I got positive feedback, mostly on here. I can't remember much about what I got before I became active on TBT, but I know I was also very insecure about my art back then.

 

[Dim]

Positive for the most part (unless they're just trying to keep me motivated lol) but some people like my family are just happy to see me draw again since it's been a hobby of mine since I was like 5.

 

[Yanrima~]

Reception is mostly positive, but then again. I can be overly critical to myself and pushing myself to strive in delivering better art. I'm not a perfectionist though, I'm just trying to improve on things and experimenting on art.

 

[Neb]

People generally react positively to my pixel art. I'm a beginner, but I've heard people say I've made much progress over the years.

 

[rocketspruggs]

My art usually gets mostly positive feedback, but I'm also no stranger to negative feedbackーsomeone even called my art garbage once when I actually put some effort into it. It's not even perfect compared to other peoples' art styles.

 

[playboii.Journ<3]

I've never shown artwork online, after what people did irl :/
I didn't show it to them, I was just doodling, and they took it from me.
They were being VERY judgy..
The girls that did that to me are the bratty, self-centered, popular girls.

Tbh it kinda scarred me

 

[ShawnFuzz]

People react positively to my drawings, but I truly believe people are just being nice.

 

[AshtonDraws]

Anytime someone asks what I use to draw, they have the most jaw-dropping face when I say I use my phone and finger, lmao.

(Also, get a lot of positive compliments. Heck, my English professor was so impressed. He started asking me questions about the lore for my characters. It was a nice 15 minutes xD)

 

[RoxiePico]

People irl do compliment my art, though I myself have very mixed feelings about my style. I've also been asked to draw FOR people or to teach kids haha- I do like how my closest friends point out and give me advice/tips though since they're artists too, and are my biggest cheerleaders. Here on these forums is the first time I've really uploaded art online and the reception has been really nice!

 

[-Blue-]

I don't know. On here members are very supportive and praise it more than I thought they would. But in person I've never had compliments to anything I've made. If it's not flawless my family would never praise or talk good about anything. So sharing things on here has always felt weird when I would receive so many compliments lol.

 

[spawnpoint]

i usually avoid showing people irl my art.. but the things i do show people, i usually get compliments (my parents even saying im really talented and that i could make money from it). the only person who's ever negative about it is my sister, but that's expected from her : P

i like to post my art online too, mostly on twitter, and everyone is really nice and says they like it and they like the colors i choose which makes me really happy. i think I've improved a lot because years ago it was... Less than good. but people were mostly still nice anyway? (probably because i mostly just showed it to my friends and they didn't want to hurt my feelings TBH)

but i do remember some people i was on bad terms with found my Instagram and started commenting on how my art sucked ??? they weren't wrong but it just proves my point that I'm pretty sure most people were just saying it to be nice (at least in the past because i do think my art is genuinely decent nowadays)

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I don't really post my art anywhere anymore other than here on Bell Tree (and very, very rarely in my husbands discord and my brothers discord) but I've had all kinds of reactions to my art both in real life and online. It's annoying that the negative reactions are so much more memorable than the positive reactions 98% of the time it's positive or at the very least indifferent