Ooo, a rare public whine!
Certain things reminded me of this again, partly my new intern job, mainly because I have trouble understanding what our/my (not really) boss (but the guy who usually does the art and thus provides the qualitycheck on my art) is wanting from me. Except from okay art of course. He's either trying to be friendly and encourage me to get better at doing pixels (which is pretty hard since the amount of pixelart I've done before this is so small it wouldn't satisfy a fly so I'm in the state that I can't even see what's wrong in my pixels, let alone satisfy any gods of pixel with my 16 colours) or then he's trying to piss me off. I'm microscopically veering to the "encourage" side, but I'm not sure yet.

I'm also having trouble understanding the concept of "vent art" (How do you do it? Why? Aside from releasing steam obviously) and having emotion in your art. Can you put emotion in to your art if you don't feel any while drawing?