No, more like, me = not quite so deluded, you = deluded.
I know it stings, and I guess I feel a little bad about this current pile-on you’re having. I also feel kind of bad at criticizing you at all, since under other circumstances, I might have smiled and allowed you to continue in your happy delusion.
But I guess this was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me and you were the unlucky bloke that got it all. I’m rather sorry about that. But there’s a part of me that thinks it would have been cruel to not challenge these excessive delusions.
It’s just that I got sick of it—sick of the bragging, the boasting, the assuming that no one else does anything or knows anything, (like you have done with several of us and have repeatedly done with me) the paranoid delusion that someone on eBay turned you in (or that I’m “pissing on your work”) based on being jealous of your brilliance. Honey, it ain’t true. You needed to be told. I’m sorry that you got a pile-on because of it, but you dug yourself in deeper and deeper and deeper.
No one’s jealous. No. One. You kind of slyly suggested that I needed to put you down in order to feel better about myself. Honey, if I hadn’t outgrown that childish tactic at age 15, I’d only do it with someone whose work I envied in some way—and honey, you’ve ain’t got nothing I envy.
No one on eBay reported you for that reason either. I don’t know why they reported you, but I cannot fathom there was one particle of jealousy involved.
See, if you hadn’t done any of that (bragged so much, implied that others are jealous of your brilliance), I don’t think that you’d be getting so much criticism.
Yeah, well, I’m well-known for my rambling about art. 
Thank you.
On what?
On the fact that too much confidence (and the automatic assumption that you are so fabulous) can stifle your own artistic development? That such excessive bragging will rub people the wrong way and result in a pile-on?
I disagree. I’ve seen people suffer from too much self-delusion—on occasion, I’ve suffered from it. A sometimes painful knock-down can lead to further, dramatic improvement. If you’ve never been harshly critiqued (and I agree, some here have been overly harsh) then perhaps it’s about time.
I wouldn’t tell you that your work is “crap.” It’s good that you draw and you should be encouraged to do more of it. I think that you could have your own unique fabulousness—just like we all can—if you do more practicing and growing, and a lot less crowing and bragging. And once again, don’t delude yourself that anyone’s jealous. They’re not. NO ONE is jealous.
You need to do more original drawing and less swiping of others’ works. You have the potential to do completely, 100% original works rather than leeching off of someone else’s hard work with your Photoshop hack jobs. You just need to put in the effort to develop more skills.
Good to hear. I hope you mean that.
There’s also “The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition” by Anthony Ryder, which is awesome. Also, the “Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist” by Stephen Rogers Peck is another book that I consult often. Of course the best thing to do is to take Life Drawing, and lots of it. If you live in an area that has some classes in artistic anatomy, take a few semesters of that too—it’ll be the making of you. And learn how to render and shade the middle tones better. That’ll improve your work greatly.
No, not “bad,” deluded. And yes, I do think that I (and a lot of others) have more skill than you at the moment, but if you take those classes and get those books and do more practice and less bragging (and cast off the delusion about “they put me down 'cause they’re jealous”) then you’ll discover your own unique fabulousness in no time. 
