Hey everyone, Deamond here~
We got a lot of comments and questions about 'Why did you deny my work?' 'Is my work that bad?' 'What are you guys doing?!' so I think it is the best to explain a couple of things here (This is NO RULE!! xD It is just a try to make you clear what we are doing when you submit art.)
I'm pretty sure you all have noticed already, that since the launch of the group-system and since we allow to submit art here in the gallery, our inboxes get flooded with deviations from the different groups we all are in. Partly there were days in which I got 5 new deviations from artists I watch and over 100 from the 3 groups I'm in.
Our group got a lot of notes that this was just too much and we noticed it ourselves as well. So we had two choices: Rising the limit of deviations per week or rising the submission-standards. As it is hard to keep track on who submitting something already this week and who not, the first one was no option.
So, what does this mean, we 'raise the standard of submissions'? It means that we want to see heart and effort put into it! It has nothing to do with skills, but we want to see that you really sat down and thought about what you were drawing.
I will give you some examples, so you understand better what I mean
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These examples are for MY case! It wouldn't use me anything to upload them as I know I didn't give my all. So if I actually want advice or critic, it will be useless on these.
It doesn't mean your pictures have to match a standard! Again: We are NOT judging upon skills!! Please remember this. We can't look into people's heads. We try to make it fair for anybody. (*added text: end...lol)
<- This would NOT be accepted. Why? Because of what I already stated in the artist-comment... it is a SPEED-paint. There is no details at all in it, almost no background, etc...
In contrary to this:
Fine shadings and even though there is not much background either, there was attention paid to every single detail.
NO:
YES:
It is hard to tell the difference soemetimes? Yes it is. That is why there is no clear line between 'Denied' and 'Not Denied'. Some of our mods might think that a certain work is allowed to be in the gallery while others say it could have more detail, effort, whatever.
To make it fair, a deviation needs 3 positive or negative votes to be either denied or accepted. Means, if 3 mods say it is okay, then it will appear in the groups gallery! But if 3 mods say 'Nya, I think it could be better' then it won't.
To submit sketches is probably the hardest as most of them get rejected, but of course if a sketch looks absolutely stunning, it will get through ^^
Another reason why we deny submissions is if you put it into the wrong category. A lineart belongs to LINEARTS, a sketch to SKETCHES and a tutorial to TUTORIALS. Same goes for colored linearts, homeworks, etc...
We don't have to handle that Screen-shot, art-theft, tracing-subject again. I think the previous journals made things for this clear
What we are doing is NOT judging your skills! We don't say 'Your work sucks, go home' or 'This isn't good enough for our standards!'. All we are saying is, that you could have put a little more effort into it It has absolutely nothing to do with your skills.
Remember, we are not a showcase but a community to help you improve your work. Your main-goal shouldn't be to get your stuff up into our gallery, but to gain from the experience others can offer to you.
It is hard to make anyone happy. The one side says they don't want their inbox flooded, the other side says they want their art submitted. We try to find a good way so both sides are happy but this means to sometimes accept, that we cannot submit a certain piece of work to our gallery.
Please understand this and don't be angry at our moderators (who are doing an awesome job in my opinion! Thanks for everything guys!) if one of your works gets rejected.
Regards,
Your MangaAcademy-Team
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