I'm pretty open about crit, and I've got something going with tinnny regarding mutual tutoring. (Though uh, not much at the moment, because I got sick of my own icons.) It's still another thing for strangers to come up to you and say your stuff needs work though, and the idea of putting yourself up for crit on a comm full of them is even more daunting. Considering the fact that we all have our own learning curves, there is a certain amount of guarantee that we *will* get better, that it is only a matter of time. So if crit isn't solicited, I'm okay with the idea that the icon maker is happy to do things at their own pace. Afterall, we're all doing it for fun here.