I have a question about posting art on here. If I want to post some of my own. Is there a quality minimum for the drawings on here? Not resolution, how good a person's art is. Their drawing skills etc. I want to know if there are some problems with that. (I would leave a link but I'm not sure if that's allowed or if it would seem bad.)

Kaijudragon567 said:
I have a question about posting art on here. If I want to post some of my own. Is there a quality minimum for the drawings on here? Not resolution, how good a person's art is. Their drawing skills etc. I want to know if there are some problems with that. (I would leave a link but I'm not sure if that's allowed or if it would seem bad.)

I've gone through what you're going through, and I know what it's like.
There is a minimum quality standard, however, I don't have the link to the help page that explains it.

Basically, it has to represent that you know basic anatomy, and that you didn't spend 100 hours in MS paint making it. I've been trying to get better, but I'm still not quite sure it hits that minimum quality standard.

If in doubt, dmail an admin.

Kaijudragon567 said:
I have a question about posting art on here. If I want to post some of my own. Is there a quality minimum for the drawings on here? Not resolution, how good a person's art is. Their drawing skills etc. I want to know if there are some problems with that. (I would leave a link but I'm not sure if that's allowed or if it would seem bad.)

Provide some links. It isn't bad to do, unless you're going to post up RL porn or etc...

Here's something from one of the help pages:

• Low quality submissions: Highly visible artifacts, scribbles, low-quality photographs of traditional media (invest into a scanner, people!), 1000h in MSPaint images, computer generated mosaics, cropped images, anatomical diagrams, bad edits, screenshots, etc. etc.

You can paste links if you like, that makes it much easier for us to give you a proper answer.

Past that I left some basic information at the bottom of this page.

Siral_Exan said:
Provide some links. It isn't bad to do, unless you're going to post up RL porn or etc...

http://kaijudragon567.tumblr.com/

You have a very design-oriented style, like stained glass. While I do find it interesting to look at, there are two things that IMO would prevent it from measuring up to e621's quality standards:

Scan/photo? quality. At minimum, learn some basic use of Levels tool (eg in GIMP) to make your whites white and your blacks black. I recommend this to everyone, it's pretty much an obligatory skill when you are digitizing traditional art, and isn't complex. An additional skill that you may eventually want to acquire is use of Bilateral Smoothing (eg in GIMP + G'MIC) to reduce the undesirable 'wavy' paper appearance to a relatively uniform color

(lack of) depth. I think you could stand to study this specifically. There are two aspects here:

a) your forms do not show a grasp of depth; they often appear mostly as filled-in silhouettes, usually in profile or straight front-on. Consider the godzilla pic and your rendition -- the buildings, which are very simple cube-like 3d forms, illustrate the basic issue. In your pic, they sort of wander through 3d space, whereas in the original, they travel always in straight lines through 3d space;

b) the way you fill everything with patterns tends to flatten things. If you use patterns, they need to conform to the surface of the object, becoming smaller and less distinct as they recede, and larger and more distinct as they protrude. Overall, the big relationships -- what the thing is doing and what space it occupies in 3d -- contribute more to the final impression than patterns, color, or even lighting.

At this point I'll make the obligatory recommendation : Nicolaïdes' The Natural Way to Draw . I would recommend this to pretty much anyone, confident that thoughtfully following it would help their art get better no matter what the issue is.

Just like... Don't send in stickmen like this one guy did a week or two ago. It was funny, but it didn't contribute to the site. I'm sure you'll do fine as long as you do what these guys tell you.

savageorange said:
At this point I'll make the obligatory recommendation : Nicolaïdes' The Natural Way to Draw . I would recommend this to pretty much anyone, confident that thoughtfully following it would help their art get better no matter what the issue is.

Ohh, nice book. Here's a pdf btw.