Seriously.

I joined

I kid you not.

They do actually critique. It's a mutual give-and-take basis. There aren't people who are forced/assigned to give you critiques, its a more direct, free-form, working system of "I'll scratch your back if you scratched mine!"

JOIN THEM IF YOU WANT COMMENTS, CRITIQUES, and OCCASSIONALLY RANDOM FAVs. Usually people will +fav the deviations they critique.


Here's WHY IT WORKS BETTER THAN OTHER GROUPS/RULE OUTLINES:
1. To get critiques, you must give critiques. You prove this by posting their icon above the critiques you give in a deviation's comment box. Some people also choose to make a special Collection for "Gimme Feedback" to ensure that their hard work in critiquing is properly noticed. They check if you've properly critiqued other users through your history of comments thingie, but I'm sure that adding a collection makes it easier on their managers.

2. Within a week, you must give two critiques to have your art placed into their gallery. That's not too hard. If you like art then it's easy enough to take a good hard look and 20mins to give a decent critique. Two is easy to do in that amount of time! I bet anyone could critique 10 in a day if they had a spare few hours!

3. They only want your art in their gallery if you are an active artist. Basically, don't go on haitus for two years, then try to join them. They want you to have something -anything- made recently, even if you don't want that particular deviation to be added to the gallery. It just proves that you are still an artist and still making art.

4. Your art will not be ignored. You could say to yourself "its not cool enough no one cares" but thats the point! Your art isn't perfect/entirely fantastic yet! If you are a learning artist, theres someone out there who wants to help you get better. Even if a little bit!

5. When you want to have something added to their gallery be sure to add in the end of your artists comments their logo and under it what you want to be critiqued on, if anything particular.



MY GOD THEY ARE AWESOME
SERIOUSLY! ITS SO EASY!

IVE GOTTEN MORE COMMENTS (even if not critiques!) IN THE LAST WEEK THAN IVE GOTTEN IN TWO YEARS!

I have gotten two deviations of mine added into their gallery.

Destiny of the Keyblade Ch1, and Queen of Spades.

CHECK OUT THE EPIC COMMENTS DUDES!

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DUDE.

ON Destiny of the Keyblade Ch1...

~theoriginalhappydais hit and far-beyond BROKE THE CHARACTER LIMIT FOR COMMENTING ON A DEVIATION OVER THEIR CRITIQUE!

Dont get me wrong, I love and truly am greatful to everyone who has critiqued whether or not they forgot to place the #GimmeFeedback logo on their comments, and I'm greatful for all the +favs, misc comments, and everything that all of my watchers, random passerby, and that #GimmeFeedback has to offer. This group seriously makes me feel like how being on an artsy website SHOULD feel- with smart or artsy people saying smart and artsy things about something that I've worked hard on and that I want to be noticed for.

I am now noticed, even if only by a few. This is like... happytear day. I just finished replying to 5-count critiques on my deviations. Seriously. It's gonna help me improve because those people all saw something different with similarities here and there, and I crave the feedback to know if, artistically, I'm going in the right direction. I think I am, with a few minor bumps in the road.

Thank you #GimmeFeedback and please keep being awesome.


Everyone, if you really want to become a better artist, whether or not you think your art is great or meh, you should join. Please join if you support deviantart for its originally intended purpose- to share the love for art!!!