Hmmmmm ...

I got this comment on my Zone Gallery:

Horrible stuff. Honestly... Elfwood doesn't seem to want pics that look like drawn by 3 year old person but i guess 4 year old is acceptable. Learn to draw before you start wasting space in Internet.

If this'd been on a story, I'd have shrugged it off. Now, though, I'm rather upset about it, and I don't know why. Maybe it's because any negative comments on my stories are always either about the 'gayness' [and can therefore safely be laughed about and ignored] or actually contructive [I'm gonna thank the person that commented on the 'sweet and fluffy' pattern and thank her/him. As soon as I manage to write something non-sweet-n-fluffy, that is.], but in this case, that's not the case. It's not constructive criticism. There is nothing in there to tell me what exactly he didn't like. Just that it's 'horrible'. Gee, thanks, you're really helpful there. And it's not a flame either. It's just confusing.

And I cannot figure out why I'm upset about this. These are my drawings. I was rather proud of myself for having drawn humans even vaguely resembling the images in my head. I never really drew anything for a large part of my life because I knew and know that this is not where my gibbest talents lie. I like to draw, but it's not a passion, it's not a need, it's not a craving the way writing is to me.

And yet, this one comment affected me more than all the flames I've ever gotten.