Are you English? (I suspect so with the name, but I just wanted to check).
Ya - you're right. When someone can't do well for their own, they go for the next best thing: defamation of those who do better than they do. Cowardly. At least they could put up a comment as to why they don't like it.
I'm honestly not bothered about the rating, it means nothing really. What gets on my tits is these gutless anonymous bastards that that sneek around giving peoples work a low score. I've put links to the images I used, if any of you experts that gave me a low score want to show me how to do it properly then feel free to post your results here. Somehow I dont think there will be many takers.haha
Some people dont like the truth. As for the low votes - well its schoolboy stuff isn't it, they cant put my artwork in the shade with theirs so low votes are the next best thing. They'll grow up eventually but the art they produce never will.