Wow thanks again for such nice comments! So glad people are finding it helpful. I can honestly say I don’t have a lot of confidence in my work, but it sure is nice reading things like this.
Thanks again guys.
You suffer from the same thing most artistic and talented people do. I suffer from that as well, I pinstripe cars for a living and all I see is the flaws in my work, nobody else ever sees them. I've overcome it by being successful, you will too. You have an ability and vision that very few people have. Everyone (well, mostly) has a talent they are good at - machinist, architect, coding, lawyering - whatever. Yours is this.
Here's my advice - stop listening to people who tell you what you could have done better. Don't ever listen to them - they mean well, don't blow them off or be mean, just say thanks. But trust me when I say they couldn't do what you do, their talent may be they are good at criticism (helpful or not).
One other piece of advice which probably helped me more than any other advice in my life. Don't let the people who dislike you get you down. By that, I mean look at the people who dislike you - those people are usually the ones you would never want to be like. So, the haters you have as you get more successful are actually the ones you want to dislike you. The more someone dislikes me, the happier I am - because, my success is making them miserable, and I don't like them. So, all you haters, thanks, it makes me feel good that you are miserable at my success.
Rock on, remember us when you are making graphics for the history channel and discovery. And your voice over guy, he's very soothing. I felt very calm about how a 98k works watching that. LOL.