( reposted from main: @mnkaei ) Hello! So I thought about making this project quite a while ago, and was searching in my unshared projects and found this—and here we are. :) Hopefully this is a bit educational! Before I start I'd like to say that this project is partly inspired by @zigzaq! ( project inspo: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/422982553/ ) She's really amazing and I'd appreciate if you could check her out if you haven't already! Okay so through the time I've been on scratch, people have complimented my art. This is normal! Extremely normally and polite but some people may do it in a different way. Instead of saying "great job! amazing work!" They might start comparing themselves to the artist. This isn't okay, because 1. It lowers your self-esteem and 2. Makes the artist feel awkward. I'll go through what's appropriate to say and not to. :) — 1. COMPLIMENTS: ways to do it appropriately compliments are nice ways of saying things to others. I believe most people know what compliments are but just in case, here's Google's take on it: noun plural noun: compliments /ˈkämpləmənt/ a polite expression of praise or admiration. and it's exactly what's stated :)) Ok, so, how can I compliment and artist? It's fairly easy, really! Something simple as "awesome" "nice job" or "cool" is a nice way to get a point across. For most people, me alike, use this tactic. If you'd like you could go deeper! "amazing job! I like [insert what you are complimenting, example hair, shading, lighting p, pose, etc]" Any of the above is alright to use ^^ — COMPLIMENTS: how not to 2. I'll get straight to the point. A way to not compliment and artist is by saying something along the lines of "this is so good I could never do anything like this" or "my art can never be this amazing." The reason I discourage this use of a 'compliment' is, as mentioned before, it lowers your self-esteem (self respect, confidence in yourself) and makes the artist feel pretty uncomfortable. This has happened a few times to be and often I avoid it because I really don't know how to respond. Should I say "thank you"? That itself seems the wrong approach. If you /are/ an artist, feel free to respond if you wish like this: "thank you, but please never put yourself down! with practice you can get better." But in any situation, complimenting others this way, even thought it may seem nice, really doesn't sound like it. :/ — I hope that some of this was helpful to you! If you think I should add something I gladly will if I think I'm missing something. :D Please let me know if you enjoyed this and think I should continue with more projects like this. (This was a little brief sorry ahaha) — Sorry for not making and actually project or using code, etc <- (lol no time currently :P) I might update this and go into more detail ^^ Drop a comment if you have a question or your ideas, I'd love to read them! — Credits: Inspired by the amazing ! All writing by me.
