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>Sharing your art is an important part of improving
Bull fucking shit; artists for hundreds years just locked themselves up in their house and hammered it out alone or used live models without taking any input from other people short of when they're on commission. People didn't really start sharing every little thing they created until the internet started to become regularly used; the most you got before that was something down the lines of artist communes of the 70s around the same time abstract garbage came into being. All anyone truly needs is the desire to be better and the willpower to keep moving forward; we even live in an age with a certifiable metric ton of references to use in place of models.
Only thing nothing but positive vibes gets you are assholes who think themselves kings, and people whose growth stunted before they could climb out of the trash bin. Can't even say the few that become successful artists who have a good amount of skill, aren't immune from eventually degenerating if they aren't lucky enough to just have their growth stalled.
TLDR: The only thing that matters is a persons dedication; the only thing praise gets you is a person who becomes more interested in being popular, and who will eventually notice they can slack on their work because their fans will love anything they do.