If you are a very temperamental person, chances are you can not accept fair judgment if someone says your art work sucks big time. So to be able to prevent you form having any tantrums, you might as well see your work in the point of view of the judges or of any other art critiques. These are the following things that people consider when evaluating your work.

Judges at art shows usually look at these factors:
1. Completeness – makes sure that the painting is coherent and all aspects are closely worked in.
2. Integrity – the work really comes from within the artist’s beliefs and his passion. What he truly believes and feels is expressed in his art work.
3. Originality – have some uniqueness in his creation.
4. Vitality – being bale to put risks and is deep in emotion
5. Depth – even if viewed a hundred times, the painting is still unique and fun to look at.
6. Intriguing –leaves something to be imagined for the viewer
7. Significance – the work contributes some values and teaching to the viewers about the world’s values, etc.
8. Quality – the design and execution of the painting is great.
9. Innovative – possesses something different for his type of genre.

Those are the criteria that judges based your work on, but to be successful, you must be able to see and critique your own work. Try basing the critique of your work on this list.
 
1. lines
a. Are the lines able to articulate the form of your object properly or entirely?
b. Are the lines organized and they are put properly where they really belong?
c. The lines must also show that the brush was under your complete control, this may be seen by lines that are not crooked.
d. In abstract arts the lines the lines should evoke a powerful and integrated rhythm.
e. The lines should create a pleasing design

2. Form
a. Is the 3-d position of every picture clear?
b. Are the forms pleasing and coherent in the third dimension?
c. Are the objects that are depicted look solidly enough even when they stand alone?
d. The texture, individual characteristics and density of each object should try to be captured.

3. Tone
a. The ranges of the light and dark should be pleasing
b. Given the implied lighting conditions is everything depicted still seem correct
c. The tone is used to create mood and it should be believable and acceptably varies

4. Composition
a. Are the elements of the painting such as being measured, being dynamic, etc. appropriate and considered only as composition?
b. Based on the design and expression of content, is it consistent?
c. The compositional elements should be closely integrated

If you can’t accept that your painting has gotten an “x” among all of these in the checklist. Maybe you should just try to be a judge rather than an artist, and you can take out your frustrations on artist that are good by telling them their paintings really suck too.