/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I've been taking art seriously for 3 years, and a year ago somebody said that I was good at drawing because I made this figure drawing without reference during math class. At the time, I believed him because I actually thought what I drew was good. 6 months before that, one of the hottest girl in my class told me that she was impressed by my drawing skills despite me not asking for her opinion. You can imagine the amount of self-esteem I get from these compliments.

Fast forward today. I still have those drawings and I can only look at them in disgust. The proportions are wrong, the rhythm is crap, the anatomy is awful, and I couldn't shade properly. All of these is obvious to me now, what I don't understand is how normies could be so impressed with awful art.

Is there a ceiling to how much you can improve until normies can't tell the difference between good art and mediocre art?

Not my work.