compo2 week5 why can’t I accept I’m improving?

        Silly, ain’t it?
        Regularly I go through “raaah I cant draw anymore and I am getting worse” phases, and of course each time it’s a normal pause before level up and each time I forget it and fall for it and go “raaah I’m no good, my art is trash”.
        We all know that, it a good thing to have: it proves you are levelling up!
        What is more ridiculous and tough to deal with is positive or very positive critics especially coming from a real master (as opposed to from your mom!”
        This week I sent my two submisions, a redone dragon and book, and a redone fight of the century.
        Dragon first: here is the new version.

        Made it into a book cover, makes more sense.
Glenn thought it was much better, except my character head at the top level are all equal distance apart which of course kills the composition (no I did not see it, I knew of that danger but was blind to it happening here).
        The dragon, now of the wyrm type (no wings or legs/arms) could show more of the depth of the image, just by being larger when closest to us, and thinner when far away, I should have exaggerated far more.
        OK not too bad for the Wyrm. But why my problem with accepting success, because of this:

Glenn loved it: nothing to say about the composition: it’s an explosion, every violent duo leading to the next (and apparently it’s funny too).
        I confess I was not prepared to hear an “ok it’s good, nothing to say, next”, I was still feeling very unsure about character placement (by duo obviously). I’m beginning to suspect I might be beginning to understand what composition is.
        I just received this from the vilppuacademy.com:

“The next session of online classes starts Nov. 10.
Classes offered are Drawing Essentials, Figure Drawing 1 & 2, Head Drawing, Composition and a brand new class on Sketching.Each week has 1 and a half – 2 hours of video instruction including an assignment which I will critique and a live online video chat weekly.Payment plans available. vilppuacademy.com”
I’m going to redo compo 1! anybody with me? Blog goes on of course – I’m curious to see what will happen to my art, and putting it into words here helps me see that more clearly.
I’m blessed to have the possibility to work with Glenn Vilppu, I’m in Paris, he’s in Los Angeles, and I know from friends who have moved to Los Angeles recently that I have more of his time than his onsite students. Online studying works wonderfully well: listen as many times to the lecture as you want, same for the critics, send questions, ask some more during the weekly video drawing talking chat, it’s all amazing.
        See you next week with something completely different as far as my submission goes!