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I strongly suggest that anybody wanting a serious critique should do some private emailing to an artist whose work you admire, or whose comments are sensitive, accurate and insightful.
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Linda,
I can appreciate your thoughts and feelings on this. However, we tend to discourage too many private emailings.
First of all, one of the main reaons for having a Critiques section is so all artists can learn from the critique. To have the critique occur privately defeats that purpose.
The other issue is that there are many more members who want critiques than professionals who are qualified to give a critique. We have had the situation where these pros have become very overloaded with requests of various types from the Forum members. Usually when a pro feels they have something worthwhile to contribute and feel they can be helpful to a request for critique, they will do so.
I'm thinking the better approach is to allow a pro to contact an artist privately if they'd like to do so. I'm not saying no one can contact a pro, so for those reading, please don't interpret in this way. But, I don't want to encourage private critiques as a standard thing. If anything, it should be the exception or after a member has been here for a while and developed some kind of relationship with one or more of the pros.