Topic: Posting (RESOLVED)

Posted under Art Talk

LambdaProtoArts

Member

Hey so I'm new to uploading art and every time I try to upload it it gets deleted and the cause says something like "doesn't meet the minimum quality requirements". Can someone help me or elaborate atleast on what this means and what to do? Because my art is shit but not that bad and it has good image quality as well.

Edit: Thank you all for the help! The janitor and someone from the community helped me find where I messed up and I do realize that I need to improve on digital art in General.

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popoto

Member

Since you don't have any source links on the uploads that were deleted, no one but the deleting Janitor can tell you the specific reasons. So you'd need to message them and ask for more information. You can see a more specific reason under the "deleted" tab on your profile though. One of them was a bad digitisation of traditional media, two of them didn't meet minimum artistic quality standards.

You might want review this https://e621.net/help/uploading_guidelines#quality

TheGreatWolfgang

Privileged

lambdaprotoarts said:
Hey so I'm new to uploading art and every time I try to upload it it gets deleted and the cause says something like "doesn't meet the minimum quality requirements". Can someone help me or elaborate atleast on what this means and what to do?

Please refer to the pinned topic #23578 for meanings to the various deletion reasons, including specifically "Does not meet minimum quality standards" which are further broken down into Artistic Quality and File Quality.

If you have checked your deletion reasons, you can see that one was deleted due to File Quality (i.e., "Bad digitization of traditional media") and the other two due to Artistic Quality.
You may respectfully message the janitors who deleted your posts and ask specifically what is wrong with your artwork.
If you are not satisfied with their reasoning, you may approach the head admin to escalate the issue. However, chances are very slim for them to have a different opinion.

Because my art is shit but not that bad and it has good image quality as well.

Image quality only plays part of the quality requirements and saying "my art is shit but not that bad" is not really a good counterargument. It is subjective and any starter artists can make the same claim in a bid to get their art approved.

The truth is we are a curated imageboard with very strict quality control, rather than a personal art gallery where anybody can freely post whatever they want.
If you want my take, don't post anything personal here until you are at least on par with or better than most of the already-approved artworks here (see status:active).
Otherwise, you will have to tango with the quality standards until you either run out of your upload limit due to too many deletions or get upset about your skills since nothing is getting through.

Nin10dope

Member

lambdaprotoarts said:
Hey so I'm new to uploading art and every time I try to upload it it gets deleted and the cause says something like "doesn't meet the minimum quality requirements". Can someone help me or elaborate atleast on what this means and what to do? Because my art is shit but not that bad and it has good image quality as well.

Next to the deletion reason, you'll see which staff member deleted it. Click on that name to go to their account and send them a message to ask for clarification

Clawstripe

Janitor

lambdaprotoarts said:
Hey so I'm new to uploading art and every time I try to upload it it gets deleted and the cause says something like "doesn't meet the minimum quality requirements". Can someone help me or elaborate atleast on what this means and what to do? Because my art is shit but not that bad and it has good image quality as well.

Oh, dear. I'm not the deleting Janitor, but I can see why they were deleted. The first has a shadow falling on it. Be it scanned (preferable) or photographed (less preferable), we want the art posted here to be as clean as possible, so that shadow is a no-go.

Even if you'd managed to keep the shadow off of there, that post would have been deleted for not being up to e621's artistic standards, just as the other two posts were. As those two are marginally better, although still not to spec, I'll focus on them now.

This will likely sting quite a bit.

First off, it's imaginative and not a bad idea. Definitely some bold colors. The basic structure of the main body is actually fairly decent and good to build upon. The head and genitals look decently formed.
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Unfortunately, the building upon needs a lot of practice.

The lines are too choppy to really work. They ought to be smoother.

There's signs bucket-fill was used with the colors, with obvious gaps of white and background colors along the lines (which the line choppiness makes worse). I'm guessing the background was made first and you drew over it. Instead, use different layers in your graphic program for the background, the colors of your character, and the lines of your characters.

The hair tips are clearly hard scribbles. They don't really work to convey the appearance of hair strands.

That's a bad smudge on the symbol on the left thigh.

There's a faint line along the bottom of the background on the full body picture where the bucket-fill ran into what appears to have been a thick color line outlining the edge of the red background. The faint line is because the bucket-fill couldn't fill in the pixels along the edge of the outlining line.

The circles around the symbol on the right thigh are very wobbly. While that could be attributed to the fur not being well groomed, the choppy lines overall and bucket-fill gaps elsewhere don't help it look good.

The hands and tail need work to make them look better instead of stubby blocks (the paws) or a fluffy banner flapping in the breeze instead of being the end of the spine (the tail). Feel free to use references (no tracing, though) to help you visualize how they might look.

About the only thing I can advise is to practice, practice, practice. No artist started off masters of their craft. We all passed through the stage you're in right now, which means that, yes, you can indeed reach levels akin to Huiro, Kirena-Kaya, and Caroxmaster.