Some people have noticed a trend when it comes to art, particularly drawings and digital paintings, that's published and spread online: Art by left-wingers tends to be dominated by very poor, childish, badly drawn and hideous pieces of garbage, while art by more centrist and right-wing people tends to be dominated by quite decent quality.
That's not to say that there are no far-leftists who draw extraordinarily good pictures, or that there are no right-wing artists that draw complete garbage. It's the proportion: Art by leftists appears to be overwhelmingly dominated by trash, while art by centrists and rightists have a significantly higher proportion of good-quality and excellent-quality work.
The explanation for this can be summarized with two words: Toxic positivity.
"Toxic positivity" is a neologism coined relatively recently to describe the kind of principle that most groups dominated by far-leftists operate under: Negativity and criticism is absolutely forbidden, at least when it comes to people on their own side (obviously). You are not allowed to hurt anybody's feelings by saying anything negative about them or what they have done.
It's not just that it's not recommended, that it's recommended to be "nice", and that "if you don't have anything positive to say, better not say anything." Saying something negative about someone's work is outright banned!
The "toxic positivity" culture can be seen in many companies that have been invaded and taken over by far-leftist activists, as attested by former employees. One of the most infamous cases is that of Firewalk Studios, the video game studio that developed the game Concord, which was an absolute disaster and the biggest failure in video game history. Indeed, insiders and former employees attested to the fact that "toxic positivity" was strongly enforced in the company, which caused an extreme amount of inefficiency and wasted work and resources, as well as an oppressive working environment because everybody had to be constantly walking on eggshells in order to avoid even accidentally offending someone.
Rather obviously this culture isn't restricted to just companies and corporations. It permeates all far-leftist groups and forums.
Which, of course, means that if you draw a picture and publish it in one of these groups or forums, you will only ever get positive feedback, zero criticism.
Nobody will ever give you critical feedback, constructive or otherwise. Nobody will ever tell you where you could improve or what you did wrong, and what you could do better. Nobody will ever compare your work to someone else's and give you tips and tricks to improve your drawing skills and knowledge. And nobody will ever, ever, ever tell you that your drawing sucks.
This, of course, means that these people never get any motivation to improve. On the contrary, they always get a flood of positive feedback no matter what they draw, and thus they feel content in their current skill level, having no need nor motivation to become better.
The concept of total relativism also plays a role here: The concept that there is no "good" nor "bad" art because it's all relative and subjective. What is one's person "bad" art is another's "good". Never let anybody tell you that your art is "bad"! They have no basis for that assessment and comparison! All art is equally good! It's all subjective, it's all relative, it's all a spectrum. There may be differences in styles, but one style is not automatically better than another.
Thus, this only reinforces the feeling that one doesn't need to improve. "My drawing skills are good as they are. This is my style, and I don't need to change it. Other styles are not better than mine. Everybody likes my style, and I'm sticking to it! They love it!"
In contrast, in the non-far-leftist part of society people can judge their own art, and other people's art, more objectively. They can see and admit that one drawing (eg. their own) is significantly worse than another. They can see and admit when a crudely drawn picture that shows absolutely no skill and looks very bad even as a cartoon is bad, and could be greatly improved. Some might not like it when people laugh at their drawings and consider them simplistic, childish and outright bad, but they don't throw a hissy-fit about it either. They know that those people are right, even if they aren't being very nice about it.
Thus, they get more motivation to improve, to study what makes a drawing good or bad, to practice the proper techniques. Some of them might eventually abandon the whole thing because they don't have the talent or motivation to improve enough, but others will genuinely improve and start making actually good art.
In other words, they don't live in a "toxic positivity" environment, and become better as a consequence.
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