Unless the person in question is an attention whore, and known to not take constructive criticism well, I would encourage you to give it a shot and give genuine feedback. Artists can't progress if they keep making the same mistakes, and many (if not most) things could be improved or fixed by getting that sort of acknowledgement. Also, artists in any area love a little ego stroking if they're proud of a creation. So long as you're pointing out the things that could be improved as well as things they did well, few would be upset about it.

Oh, I know this all very well for myself (I've written two novels, made several paintings), and I live for compliments, and can take genuinely constructive critiques fairly well. I just don't like hurting people's feelings. There are few exceptions to my rule of "don't watch/listen to/read a friend's works", and they're all people relatively close enough, or relatively famous enough that I have a fair idea of how well they might take an unfavouable opinion, and how best to word it for them.

Based on my previous balance of +8...

+1 bought a black dressing gown, even went to the boy's kids section coz there was only pink in womens
+1 Currently wearing said dressing gown with black pyjamas
-1 Went on near-beach picnic rather than cemetery (because the cemetery was too far to walk)
-1 Hair is disgustingly faded and grown out
+1 Bought a massive black umbrella
+1 Drew a skeletal flower and bats
-1 Elmo slippers... XD
+1 played Fallout 3 with an even paler character and I continually change her hair to various unnatural colours and styles

So now I'm at +10... I could have done better :/

Got a whole bunch of stuff in the mail today...
...silent film, Different From the Others --Germany, 1919, oldest surviving (and possibly first ever known) film to give a frank but sympathetic depiction of homosexuality: +1
...did I mention it's starring Conrad Veidt (Caesare from das Kabinett des Dr Kaligari, Gwynplaine from The Man Who Laughs --and thus an aesthetic influence on The Joker from the Batman properties): +3
...oh, and not a single film historian is sure how that film escaped being completely destroyed by the Nazis (still an incomplete print, though) --spooky!: +1
...knew all the above trivia without reading the back of the clamshell or Wikipedia: +1
...I also got a book --a poetry anthology by one of my friends I've been meaning to pick up for a while: +1
...and will probably never read cos of my own neuroses regarding friends' works[1]: -1
Got this in the post a week or so ago: The Quintessinal Guy Maddin box set --set includes Cowards Bend the Knee, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Careful, Archangel (same disc features the silent deiselpunk short Heart of the World), Cowards Bend the Knee, and Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (effectively silent; it's a ballet re-telling choreographed specifically for film): +5
This month's Tarr-jay haul included...
...new cell phone, after the charger on the last one rusted out somehow I don't even know: -1 (clearly I'm not a techie)
...new toner, facial wash, and make-up wipes, all sensitive skin formula: +1
...six months' worth of generic OTC allergy medication: pollens, grass, ragweed --fair enough, so 0; dust (this means cobwebs) and basement moulds -1
...a new three-pack of Orbit gum, which I buy for the Op Art packaging, which is worth Mod points, not Goth points: -1
And at Sally...
...L'Oreal Professional Onyx Sheen (bluest black): +1
...a couple little sachets of that "Bio-Kur" stuff to add to the dye and highlight bleach so as not to aggravate my psoriasis: +1 (gotta keep my black clothes black, and this includes shoulders)
...a super dark purple nail varnish: +1
...and a random impulse buy of a shiny thing: +1
...and somehow have misplaced one of my favourite shiny things[2]: -1

Current adjustment: +12

current Goth Card balance: +100


[1] serious, every time a friend of mine writes or makes music, even if they did it long before they were my friend, *with the exception of those I've made friends with because of their writing or music*, I find myself reluctant to check it out, due to being afraid I'll hate it and hurt their feelings.
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