Worst of my gallery
Get cracking!
And if you want me to do the same for you then tell me!
If I had to pick something I'd choose this:
You gallery is full of emotional images that tell intimate stories or portrait atmospheric details. Compared to these images the one I picked doesn't really seem to fit. Neither the composition nor the colors or content of the picture seems to fit to the rest of your gallery. It's not a bad image, but it's just not as well thought out and emotional as the rest.
To stay fair you can pick the "worst" image from my gallery in return
It's quite difficult with your gallery because you have a pretty stable quality in your works. I guess the only thing I could pick at is the emotes
just because they seem relatively meaningless in comparison to your other deviations (even though on the internet they're probably the most useful things ever ). Other works you have are all clean cut, smooth pieces of art and I know emotes are supposed to be simple but they just don't fit.
Hah, I feel like I'm copying what you said to me.
Yes, you can use your gallery in any way you like. It's your private area and nobody can really say what's "good" or "bad" in it and you don't need a strict purpose or guideline on how to set up your gallery.
A portfolio is a different issue. Portfolios are usually especially designed for a purpose and for your target audience. You usually carefully choose which images to include and at which position in the portfolio they appear to create an interesting succession of works. Artists can even have multiple portfolios with different focuses they show to different clients; depending on what field of work the artist wants to highlight.
Yes, people often see things differently and what you expected to be the "weaker" images in your gallery don't necessarily are perceived as weak by other people; but if you have some images you think are weak compared to the others then you should think about whether you want to remove them or not, because in the end it's your decision and if you're not comfortable with some images then you should feel free to remove them. You don't need approval of other people.
Thank you. Yes, the smileys are something completely random in my gallery. They're actually part of a layout I made and I needed some fake smileys for it; but then I thought 'Why not turn those fake smileys into real ones' and I just did it. The frowning smiley is actually used quite often by people. It seems that there aren't many frowning smileys and my version just fits
The thing with the smileys is that they're great as far as smileys go. So if you'd have a separate gallery for them then it would be awesome. And, to be honest, they don't ruin your gallery or anything. It's just a very small detail to discuss, I guess, so it's all good.
By the way, that's a super nice way of saying something's s**t , I'll remember that saying.