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Learned more from Zoom screen share critiques than in person gallery walks
Me and a few friends started doing digital art critiques on Zoom about 6 months ago because we all got lazy driving across Cincinnati. At first I thought it would be terrible, no energy in the room, hard to point at stuff, all that. Then we tried a hybrid thing where two of us met up in person and shared a screen anyway, and that was way worse for some reason. Here is what killed the in person version: when someone's art is on a big monitor and you share your whole screen, you can actually circle a brush stroke and zoom in 400% on a spot. Nobody can do that in a gallery walk. I had a piece where the hair edges were too sharp, and my friend Jamie dragged a selection box around the jaw line and said point blank, "this is crunchy, smooth it." Would never happen in person. The other thing is we record the calls now, so I can go back and rewatch a critique at 11pm when I'm actually working on the file. So my question is, has anyone else moved their critique group online and noticed the same thing, or did it fall flat for you? I'm curious if the screen share trick works for other people or if my group is just weird.
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