Marcel Hampel

Now to the bit that I think people are, especially in art group/comments, very bad at - What, and how do you tell them to improve? Oh this thumb is wrong, their prose is wonky, their linework is terrible - what do you say? This is the crux of everything. 5/x

First of all, understand what the person was trying to do with the work. Feedback that doesn't go towards that is useless Ask about this. What mood they were going for, what they were studying, what they wanted out of it. Ask about this AFTER you see/read the thing first time 6/x

Then you tell them wether it comes to strong or not. Now this is when you can be useful. Overloading information on everything that is bad about somethingage, is (imo) not conducive to improvement. If I have 500 things to improve on, I won't know were to start. 7/x

ESPECIALLY if they're all on different things. Am I focusing on learning the right thing? Should I swap from colours to anatomy? I don't know I'm just super confused right now! WHAT DO I DO! Probably just feel like im shit at whatever. 8/x

Give feedback suggesting a focus and improvement on a single, individual thing. Especially for people new to it. More experience you might be able to give a couple. Give them very specific guidelines on how you think they can improve, tools, whatever. 9/x

Its REALLY important to not overload here. Less is more. Clear steps to improve, and then you can go "once you've improved this, I can point out something else." Now what thing do you point out? What is the thing you tell them to work on? 10/x

It is NOT automatically the thing you think is the worst thing in the painting. It is the thing you think that can give the highest overall improvement to their overall work/focus with the least amount of effort, based on what they are currently good at. 11/x

That's a very simple statement, but quite hard to do in practice, but it's the most impactful thing, combined with specific steps on how to do that. It leads to fast improvement, confidence, and joy in the thing they are doing. And then after that it's the next thing. 12/x