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did you draw them?

Y'know Chris, you're getting to sound alot like me and I don't think that the rest of the artists here on ICE need another crackpot whining and moaning in justification of the work! What I feel, is that in addition to quality blending, there is also a thing called imagination which plays a great part in the scoring of tiles here. Many of us here are struggling to show some imagination in our work and I believe that this is the spirit that it's administrators want to inculcate within us, the ability to generate ideas from our own minds and allow others to enhance them and to carry these thoughts on to other tiles, giving these quilts a flow and continuity that can only be appreciated when seeing the big picture. I've seen your hand and I don't think that you have a problem producing quality imagery but I think that you will do better and score higher if you let your imagination carry the tile rather than your ability to produce tight line reproductions as in the Mutant Ninja Turtle thing. Chris, I offer you this commentary to help you avoid the discomfort of being an ugly duckling, like I began my career here on the board. I invite you to view a mess of tiles that I have produced and see the running but shallow excuses that I used to defend what was often less than mediocre bullshit. You will not find another bunch of well meaning and friendly people, anywhere else, as the ones here on ICE who will take time to stop and correct you by offering suggestions and working to help you to produce a better quality of work. Because I know that you can do better than this tile, I'll be looking in on you myself and I needn't remind you that I've got the bullshit market cornered!
I have every good feeling that you will do nicely here on the quilts and I encourage you to keep on submitting work from your own fine hand.
May all things go well with you Oculos.... Eddie M.

You talk to much man. This tile just sucks, anyone with eyes can see that.

-Mafia

Chris,
Although that tile DID suck, read the threads above and you'll get the story about that comment and how that comment came about. Try to get over it Chris, it's certainly not bigger than you and spend your time improving your technique and not wasting your time reaching back in indignation! Hell, we are ALL entitled to a few bummers along the way and as long as the response to that horrible tile is past history, leave it there! I told you awhile ago, that I believe that there has never been a member of this web page who has fucked up as much work as I have, but still, I move along. If I had not made a decision to change my own attitude, I think that I would have been ejected back there in late August. I used to think that I would be a winner if I hacked my way through the most tiles in the shortest period of time. If ever my mouse was like a machette, it was in those days. I've got over a hundred tiles here, on one quilt or another and raised my score from a minus to about 270 points and I did this through the readjustment of both my technique and my attitude. I've got a library of bad work in my little gallery and I invite you to view these turkies especially because I believe that by seeing my mistakes, that you will avoid the very same snares and pitfalls. On the day that you work harder at pleasing yourself than you work at pleasing others, you will begin to walk forward. I have a great suggestion for you and a way to approach each tile in a manner that will surely make you better, When you set the blank tile before you and while your grip on the mouse is firm, clear your mind and concentrate on the blank tile before you as you repeat silently within your mind, "This is MY tile, and there shall be no other like it, I will not flinch, I will not falter and I will not fail"...
Go get em' Chris, Eddie M.

Ermiro,
Say pal, you wouldn't be related to Nostradamus, would you?