Under "The Number One Rule" in the rules of the site:
A 5 minute sketch, a 10 minute drawing, all of these could be oh-so-much better if twice the effort and time was put into them.
This doesn't mean you can't post 5 or 10 minute sketches, but they have to be good 5 or 10 minute sketches, and they should be mixed with pictures you put more time into. Although there is something to be learned from quick sketches in traditional art, we strongly discourage submitting these sketches.
There are a few people who are particularly mean to newbies, but most of the people who give honest criticism on pictures are well-intentioned, I think. You need to be able to deal with both types of people. I personally enjoy the fact that 2draw is not a community of back-patters. Criticism can help you grow as an artist, if you're wise enough to actually listen to it (and also not take it at face value).
One key thing is to accept your current state as an artist. People you know in real life will almost always be supportive of you, no matter how terrible an artist you are. When you talk to other artists, however, they will not be so fake with you. We will not lie to you and tell you that your drawings are good when they are not. It's not cruelty, it's honesty. Some people will take that too far and try to hurt you with that, but you just have to be mature and ignore those people.
Once again, this website is a dictatorship, not a democracy. If you don't like the people here, it'd probably be best to leave. But if you leave, that means you've given up and let the rude people beat you. It's up to you.
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Also, I think if you took more time on your drawings we wouldn't be in this current situation.
One key thing is to accept your current state as an artist. People you know in real life will almost always be supportive of you, no matter how terrible an artist you are. When you talk to other artists, however, they will not be so fake with you. We will not lie to you and tell you that your drawings are good when they are not. It's not cruelty, it's honesty. Some people will take that too far and try to hurt you with that, but you just have to be mature and ignore those people.
Once again, this website is a dictatorship, not a democracy. If you don't like the people here, it'd probably be best to leave. But if you leave, that means you've given up and let the rude people beat you. It's up to you.