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Wraith Edgy: You just had to make me follow..! (moderator) Art Central Artist's Gallery Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core [PSP] since: Apr 2002	Jul 27, 07 at 8:37pm Fanart Submission Rules
	Welcome to the FanArt section to Neoseeker! This section is a separate part from the forum and is for fanart submissions. All the fanart you submit through this system will be tied to your profile like a contribution. So anyone who clicks on your profile can see the work you've submitted and comment on it if they wish to do so. From here you can start to submit your fanart. We do have rules and a quality standard (not as in how good you are to draw, but how clean and visible the scan is of your submissions), so please read the following rules and guides as it is mandetory. Currently there is 3 people manually approving your drawings, if you have any questions at all, do not hesitate at all to contact any of us! We are here to help and guide you. =) The Team Wraith - LanDi Sama - Daisy The "General Discussion" can be found here. You can post questions or comments of this feature there. This is a quality guide/help thread to help you make your drawing look more clean and pass the "quality inspection", To make sure it's not misunderstood, this does not mean how good you are to draw, but how visible and clean the scan of your drawing is. We don't only accept masterpieces, but all levels of skills as long we see there is some effort to make it. To understand the difference, you can either contact a member of the team or use this thread. The contents of the first post is added in the next post in this thread. Neos Fanart Submission Rules Don't steal art and claim it as yours! This is the most important rule. You're more then welcomed to post fan art and drawings you've used official art as reference. But you can not claim other works as your own when you haven't drawn it. That includes claiming you've created a new character inspired by the show/game, but in fact the design belongs to someone else. Maybe you've even drawn every line yourself, but then you're claiming someones design as your own, that is STEALING as well. If you find someone has stolen your art or you suspect someone has stolen art from a different site, report the picture, or PM Daisy, LanDi Sama or Wraith. We do not tolerate any kinds of stealing on this site, and we consider it as a very serious matter, so please don't post it in the forum, PM only. Tracing is not allowed You're more then welcomed to eyeball art, to draw it as you see it. Digital tracing and putting paper on paper to trace is the same as drawing someone elses line. You can not post your friends work. You can not post your brothers, sisters, dad, mum, friends etc work. They themselves need to come and post it. No EXPLICIT Hentai, Yuri or Yaoi allowed or revealing nudity This is a site is visited by 13 years of age and up, so we don't want any too revealing pictures. We do allow tasteful nudity. Hentai, Yuri and Yaoi is not allowed in a sexual manner, though we allow taste full shounen-ai and shoujo-ai. For those who doesn't know these expressions: Hentai = Guy on Girl sex. Yuri = Girl on girl sex. Yaoi = Guy on Guy sex. Shounen-ai and shoujo-ai, is Girl on Girl and Guy on Guy cuddling and kissing. Keep in mind to make it tasteful! If you're unsure if your picture is too mature, you could send a team member the picture and get personal opinion. No explicit violence, racism or strong cursing. There are no problems with posting a fight scene, but adding allot of blood, gore and strong cursing might be a problem depending on its magnitude. As for racism, it is not tolerated at all. Even if it's not in a violent or serious manner, it's not wanted. No banners, digital edited or photography. If it's all made freehand either with a pencil, mouse or tablet etc, it will be approved. Anything that has not been made this way will not be approved. Photos of a drawing will not be approved either. If you have a great picture that just has to be shown, and it is way to big for your scanner, for it to have chance of getting approved you will need to take a high quality photo and crop it to size so that it does not look like you took a photo of it. There is a probability that the new rules will be added or altered, you're obligated to look for updates in the thread when it happens. It will be notified in the thread title if it happens. This message was edited by Wraith on Mar 22 2008.
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Wraith Edgy: You just had to make me follow..! (moderator) Art Central Artist's Gallery Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core [PSP] since: Apr 2002	Aug 02, 07 at 11:10pm re: Fanart Submission Rules
	As mentioned in the above post, this is whats been added in the qualification guide for quality images. ^^ (This might get updated with more guides from other members, keep an eye out if you're interested.) The reason we have this quality rule is because when others go to sites to look at fanart, it's always fun to look at something that is not pulled out of... who knows where. XD So to get down to business! =3 First thing to check is if your picture was properly scanned. These examples would not get approved: Here the picture was put on the scanner crooked,Naughty LanDi! By doing this firstly the subject become crooked and you see the scanner lid which is extremely distracting and not nice to look at. The right way to scan a picture is to have the paper straight on the scanner! ;D Another scanning problem is the shades that can come from scanning: The shade on the top and left side can easily avoided by either tearing the sheet of paper off the pad, or the paper might be quite thick, and if it doesn't quite fit the scanner in size. Theres 2 solutions for the 2nd problem. You can either cut it making the paper fit the scanner, or you can simply put some pressure (not to hard, mind the scanner) on where the shade develops, with a book or your hand. I recommend a book, since you might shake your hand while the scanner is scanning. That will make blurred lines if the drawing is even the sligthest shaken during scanning. But if you have a steady hand, go for it. ^^ The most common things to check before you submit a picture is to check if the subject is centered in the picture.This is a common mistake, but such a easy fix! ^^ You see how the subject is not centered. The way to get it right is to crop/cut away from the bottom and on the right side. If needed, you could change the canvas size (not the image size) and make it broader, so that you might get some more space on the left side if it's needed.After you have cropped it, it will look like this and be approved: Now he has a reason to smile! =D Another big issue is contrast and brigthness of a picture! ^^ Here you can see it is way to dark. Since this is done in ink, you probably don't need to touch the contrast at all, but with pencil it's common to use contrast to make it look sharper (example will come later with pencil). But this is too dark, so we will need to tweak the brigthness and maybe the contrast. After changing the brigthness, and a bit of the contrast, we will get this: Much nicer to look at! =D But, there is such a thing as too much brigthness and contrast! Here you see the lines have gotten way to thick because of the overuse of the contrast. this is not nice too look at even though it eliminates the soft shades that might come in a picture. Experiment a bit to find the perfect balance between brigthnes and contrast. ^^ you must use different methods between mediums like ink and pencil. ;D Here is to show a varaiety of faults. 1) Eraser leftovers or eraser poo I eloquently like to call it. There are several ways to get rid of it. Before you scan it, you can brush it away with a clean and stiff haired brush. You can try and wipe it away with your hand, but that will much easier smudge your drawing. If you've brushed everything off your picture, and it still shows, it might be on your scanner. clean it every once in a while to keep it form popping up. ^^ If you have done this, and it still pops up, it might be stuck to the paper. If it's not to much, you can always colour over it using paint shop (or similar). That is not considered a no no ;D 2) Finger prints... They are awful to look at and awful to get rid off. If you've erased the hardest you can (without crinkling the paper) and it still doesn't go away, do the same you did with the eraser poo, just draw over it in photo shop! ^^ 3) Smudges in a drawn area... The best way to get rid of it is to never made it at all. Think of drawing with pencil like painting the floor, always shade the areas furthest away from where your hand (the exit) touches the paper. Smudges like these can also come when you try to dust away the eraser poo, if your hands are clammy (which is easy to get if you've been clutching your pencil after a while), and you have no brush, and blowing it away (without spitting XD) dry your hands, and use the side of your hand (where your pinky finger is, not thumb side) and barely touching the paper, clear it away. ^^ Tricky but nice if it's done right. ^^ 4) Half assed sketches. In these areas where the number 4 is, you see it's pretty shadily drawn. we do accept sketches, but something as fast done as the right side of the picture is on the fence area if it does accepted or not. if the entire picture was like the left side, sketchy but yet somewhat whole, it will get approved. Quality of the art may have a factor in it as well when it comes to sketches. 5) This is just to show the difference when a picture gets edited with contrast and brightness of the 2 sides. Another thing to keep an eye out on is when erasing your picture, it's easy to crinkle the paper. Like Cloud illustrates here: Amy took a bit high contrast on this image so that the crinkles shows more, so you shouldn't do this. XD It's not easy to fix this with contrast, but if it does, thats great, but again, use that handy paint tool to colour over where it is possible without ruining, your picture. Digital work There are few things we just don't approve. First is sprites, and edited sprites like this: Even though you've added items to the sprite, or changed the colour of the fur in this case, it is not considered as freehand drawings. While on the subject of freehand drawing... This is NOT one of them: These are tools used through paint shop, not considered computer drawn even if you used a tablet to make it. Lined paper is a huge no no. The lines are too overpowering and distracts the image. You must be highly skilled or managed to overpower the lines very well to get it approved by us. If you ever have the choice of the 2, throw the lined paper in the trash! Bad LanDi, this will not be approved! LanDi: T.T Going back to the topic of digital images. Finding an official screenshot or artwork, and adding lots of effects to it through photoshop is not considered art made by you, first, the image you edit is not made by you, and the effects are amde by the computer, there's not nothing freehand about it ;D As for a last clarification when it comes to nudity. Tasteful nudity is a hint of something something, not a full view of something something. Sephy Will demonstrate, and Vegeta will clarify. XD Such a shame \|D.. I mean... Move along, move along, nothing to see here!! (Pictures Made by LanDi Sama and myself)
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