Topic: about quality standards

Posted under General

i made a draw where i made old camera effect on it because it is part of the characters story... because my sona (basically me) uses old cameras to take pictures of empty places and abandoned buildings just like i do irl... wathever... the effect on the image is part of the plot of the characters and my style so what should i do if a moderator says it isnt on the quality standards?

The deletion message states that the post has already been reviewed once. It doesn't meet the quality standards. That sucks, but it's nothing personal. This is one of the reasons why it 's not recommended that people upload their own art to e621: moderation gets too personal. So make an account on a gallery site, for example Inkbunny or Furafinnity, and put your art there while you practice. Then when you feel that you have improved, you (or even better, a fan of your art) can try again with e6!

Don't let it get to you, keep practicing :)

You can also try asking the deleting moderator what exactly they felt the problem was so you know what you need to focus on to get it. Be sure to be courteous and appreciative about it (without making a case for undeletion), and they'll probably be open to giving you a critique.

I haven't handled or seen that post previously, but I'm willing to say that the post processing done to the image has almost nothing to do with the deletion, but rather the artwork itself.
Additionally the post has note that at least one other staff member saw the post as well and didn't deem it to be passable quality either.

Generally, compression artifacts are taboo as they tend to make a picture look low quality. I ran across that myself when I posted this picture by Cryptid-Creations. The specific reason for deletion was ''Does not meet minimum quality standards. (Compression, even if it's meant as joke)'' , despite Cryptid-Creations being an excellent artist.

Unfortunately, the fact that the picture is drawn and not photographed is working against you. The two are very different mediums, and making it obvious that the artifacting is supposed to be there and thus a valid artistic choice instead of a screw up is handled differently in each one. In photography, the artifacting has to be compensated for with excellent framing and composition to make it obvious it's part of the effect the artist wants to get across. In a drawn picture, artifacting on a picture meant to emulate a photograph has to be compensated for differently, either by making the base image highly photorealistic or by deliberately screwing up the shot. That latter will require you to break the very rules you would use as a photographer. In a photograph, the better you've set up the picture, the better. In a drawn picture, the worse you've set it up, the better.

This has nothing to do with how well drawn the picture is. As Mairo points out, the base image could use further refinement with anatomy, posing, and shading. (To be fair, that's true even for the masters; there's always something that can be improved.) Deliberately "screwing up" the shot requires better drawing skills to pull off than a perfect composition would.

well.. i will start to post the edited images on furaffinity and inkbunny and keep e621 with the normal versions