One Wednesday I had a critique on my newest paintings (I haven't uploaded them here yet) and I was unsatisfied with the results. Instead of giving me help on my technical issues my paintings were compared to a number of things. Video games (kingdom hearts was the biggest comparison), Tim Burton's style, and Korn album covers. Out of all these things I'm only familiar with Tim Burton. For some reason I was really distraught about this. More so because my peers would not offer me any sort of advice and would just say what my paintings reminded them of. I've gotten over it now. Another thing that bothered me is that I don't take a lot of influen