I’m not sure it’s possible to be genuinely honest and ‘kind’ at the same time. If you’re being kind, then you’re holding something back, you’re not giving a true insight into your actual reaction.
I’d also add that unless you’re actually an artist, it’s also difficult to be constructive…
The best sone of us might come up with is “urgh that’s crap”, but we’d have no real idea as to why it wasn’t appealing to us, just that it wasn’t.
It’s bound to be a topic of conversation and let’s face it, the initial face was an absolute dogs dinner… and clearly he recognised that himself.
We were led to believe that the revised image that was on display at the weekend was the finished article … The artist said that himself… To be honest, I thought it was a massive improvement and hadn’t noticed the issue with the eyes at all, until pointed out… (it’s almost like the concave face illusion, that once you see it a different way you get it).
We can talk about being nice, we can talk about hurting feelings etc.. and that’s all important stuff, but ultimately it boils down to someone contracting to do a job… Unfortunately instead of just having to please one or two people, this bloke has to please several thousand…
Funnily enough I rationalised the whole thing as being in the style of old postcards or football cards…