Don’t be disheartened! As much as most of the ZB community here rocks, this is still the internet, so you have to deal with the occasional bad apple. For some people, giving someone 1 or 2 stars for no reason is the highlight of their day.
For others, it’s about striving to become a better artist or actually sharing with the community by providing thoughtful feedback, offering advice, or creating mind-blowing work that inspires all of us.
I think you’re work is good. Better than average, so don’t let a silly star rating get you down. It’ doesn’t represent what the majority of people think and it’s not statistically significant anyway.
You can kinda tell when a star rating means something… and that’s when the ZBrush gods produce mind blowing work and everyone and their uncle gets in line to give 'em 5 stars.
In any case, it’s not at all about stars. It’s about creating cool stuff. Learning, striving to get better, sharing, and doing the best you can.
The other problem with ZBCentral is that I think many people are intimidated to post work because so much of what is posted in mind-blowing. Much of it by professionals. And when that happens, you’re looking at work that is way better than average and it’s easy to get caught up in the “damn, will I ever be that good?” mentality. At least, that’s what I think.
Otherwise, just keep on doing what you’re doing!
As for feedback… I think there are so many posts that go by on a daily basis here that many folks just don’t have the time to leave much feedback. I read a lot of posts and view a lot of work regularly, but I only leave feedback on about 10% of it…that’s all I have time for.
And the really good advice/feedback, that takes a lot longer to write than it does to say, “WOW”, or “Your work rocks”, etc.
In any case, bottom line, this is the internet! You have to take everything with a grain of salt. Stars included.