This is completely right btw. Have a little respect for yourself, don't take noise from beginners, and draw things you like sometimes. Anything you will be told is obvious or setting you back. Better artists don't have a crab-in-bucket mentality unless they have bad personality in real life. And...
Why are those choices? What are you even on about? And then you make assumptions just like Tim. It's a similar approach to critique that is 100% non-coincidental. Wanna know the correlation? Post your art.
Don't hate me, but your critiques are long-winded and only useful for beginner artists. I'm sure he knows how to light a ball. At such skill level it's mostly up to the artist to do all the learning. This isn't a good medium for teaching anyway. Consider this a critique critique.
Anyway I had a...