New Project (And my first after covid) I have to wonder why the "It's crap" people even bother?

New Project (And my first after covid) I have to wonder why the "It's crap" people even bother?

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New Project
(And my first after covid)
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With some sketches above it
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Working title and text blurb ideas so far:
The Best Unkown Seaside Folk Singer in the whole North East of England
When the artist sings with enough truth,
The audience, however small, becomes of the highest quality.
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A2
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Time took so far
An hour-ish
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I separated the workload into 4 distinct layer parts.
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Part 1
The window and street background
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Part 2
The main room inc the cat and dog.
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Part 3
The folk singer
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Part 4
the front audience.
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Then finishing the tie in shading
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Then highlights and details
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This will probably be finished sometime within the next few days
Then it will go on sale for 50 pounds,
(The same price that all my A2s get sold for.)
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Then post finished thing on Fartbook marketplace.
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This is to be followed by a few weeks of a 5/3 ratio of people saying it's crap and people saying it is good.
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I have to wonder why the "It's crap" people even bother?
What do they think will happen?
Are they expecting me to say,
"Hallelujah! I have seen the light! Thank you so much for the gift of your wisdom, I will never pick up a colour pencil again!" ?
Or
"Oh No! I am totally devastated! A random person who I never met says I am crap! I can not bear to even look upon art ever again!" ?
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Hey, <shrug>
Maybe that shit works on school children and twenty-year-olds.
Maybe that crap might even work on some thirty-year-olds?
I am nearly 50 years old!
How many life knocks do you think any 50-year-old gets?
LOADS!
How fragile do you expect any average 50-year-old with a lifetime of being figuratively pissed on to be? Realistically?
I am not particularly tough, strong-willed, stubborn or thick-skinned
I am just simply getting too fucking OLD to care!
<facpalm>
LOL