It's recently come to my attention that people are either completley ignoring that there are Sketch artists out there or that people have really not heard of it. Here's the basic rundown of what I reckon a sketch artist is.
You like to draw, but are not very good at colouring and shading, and such use a single colour (usually black) to make an outline image of people/characters or objects. These sketches can be as detailed as photographs or as basic as rough line drawings.
Personally I like to think that I sit in the middle of the skill bar, hell, I tend to think that I'm lower than one-third way, and a completed image for me is something that, whilst others may not think it is anything special, looks good in my eye. Frankly, I don't have to colour any of my images, I do because I told myself that I'd try to have at least one in every six or so images fully coloured. I may not have succeeded, but that is because I don't push myself to do it. I do artwork because I like to, it's my escape from the real world and it gives me something to vent my frustrations on (which is why some of my images are more moody or depressed). I like comments that are helpful, but I don't expect them; it's nice to know what other FA artists and denizens think of my work and how I might improve upon my style. Criticism is important in any developing style or artist, if there was no critique, we'd all still be scribbling bulls on cave walls. Again, there is no pressure for anyone to critique or comment, though I do like to know your opinions. Negative critique is encouraged at all times, knowing what you think is crap is important, but there is only so much that can be divined from "Uh, is garbage." I'm sure we've all heard it before from our peers: If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all, in this case is only half true. TELL me what you don't like, I'll take it on board, I don't ignore criticism, I welcome it, but if you don't like my work because you don't like the fact that I don't colour an image, or 'complete' work; remember that I'm a SKETCH artist, I don't colour things in as a rule. Being told my work is garbage because it's 'incomplete' to your standards makes me go: "Hm, if this is shit, and this is how I draw, maybe it's all crap and I should stick to playing WoW and find a new way to get rid of my nervous tic?"
Sorry to rant and rave, but I've had a really shitty day because of that last statement, I really have. Furry artwork isn't something I do because I can't draw anything else, on the contrary, I draw it because I want to, I love to do it. I can just as easily go back to drawing human charaters and remove all my work from FA and the other places I have posted it.