A newbies art gallery? please vote

Okay, I tried posting the idea for a new gallery/forum, and I got very little support,:no: so I’m going to try to approach this from a different angle. I know that when I first started using blender, when I was a total newbie, (a catagory which I am kind-of still in) I wanted to post my pictures and animations online, but I was intimidated to see my pictures by the images created by the masters. I would like to start a gallery/forum which caters to more than one forum, and is meant specifically for newbies. It could be a relatively non-intimidating atmosephere where new Blender users can post their own pictures and models and comment on others work. More mature animators would be welcomed to add their own suggestions as well. I plan to place this post on a couple of other forums as well.

There is already this forum: http://blenderartists.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=10

Segregation is bad in my humble opinion. Posting stuff and getting crits is how we all get better. I can quite assuredly claim that my stuff is “newbie”, but playing with the big boys is how I am going to get up to snuff.

Ever wonder why you always see the Top two people doing any activity tend to be acquaintances? (Or more often friends). It’s because they are in the same pool, always pushing one another to the next level.
Tennis - The Williams Sisters
A Brother and Sister hold the record for holding their breath the longest
Top Martial Artists tend to always come from the same schools

It’s not that those people are “Better” by default. They are just held to higher standards by those around them, and then they buck up to the challenge.

I want to be in a pool with the masters. I may never hold a candle to them, but I’ll be better then those who only compare themselves to the new guys.

Good point, I think I’ll follow that philosophy when trying to build a site.