How You've Dealt With Cutting Remarks

Please tell me your story

Have you ever had a parent, art teacher, or art director make a cutting remark about your work or the kind of artwork you wanted to do?

I don’t mean a normal constructive critique, but rather a mean comment that was intended to quench your enthusiasm.

Without naming names, what did they say, and how did you process it? How did it affect you in the long r…