I really hate how some things people say just really stick to you.
A year-ish ago I showed some drawings of a fairly new oc of mine to a person I really cared about and something that they said about it was that "the character looked like he was wearing a fat suit" and I was fucking gutted to hear that.
I think it's important context that I, myself, am a skinny person and a lot of my ocs (not all) mirrored that since I use my own body as a reference a lot of the time. So with my lack of experience with drawing fatter bodies I wanted to learn and improve, so that's what I had a go at doing. Now looking back at the drawing that got this comment, yes there was quite a bit of room for improvement, BUT the same thing could also be said about the drawings where I first started drawing characters with more muscle definition because in some of them you really can't tell that that character was supposed to be muscular which made me stick at it and eventually get better through practice.
I think the comment stung so much because
1. It was said by somebody who I really cared about and loved sharing my art with.
2. This was a drawing I was actually proud of. Even if my anatomy was off I had made this drawing and I liked it. I had done something I wasn't used to, even if it was something as simple as adding more mass to a body, and I thought I had done a good job at it.
I wasn't showing this person the drawing because I wanted to be showered with praise for doing the bare minimum of drawing a person with a body type unlike my own, I was showing them this drawing because it was a new character and story that I had made and loved. I wasn't looking for praise or critique. I know the person saying it didn't mean to hurt me but they did. They didn't even give me constructive advice on how to fix this mistake, it was just the critique and nothing else.
I haven't made a full body drawing of this character since August last year which isn't too out of the norm for me since I have a lot of ocs and I haven't done many full body oc works this year, but it still makes me kinda sad to say. Even drawing this oc now, before writing this, the comment still gets to me. How do I get over this?
