Gallery Folders and Submission Guidelines

<sub>Please read the following information carefully and thoroughly so that we can avoid misunderstandings. Admins will screen all incoming submissions and and have the right to decline as they see fit. Whilst we do accept discussions on the subject matter in this blog we do not accept arguments.

We are currently developing our gallery folders and layout and are open to suggestions for new folders or edits on folders. Most folders are based on the groupings found here</sub>

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Gallery Folders

SHORT VERSION:
If a piece is just PokeRealism with no scientific analysis in the piece itself or the Artist's comments, it goes in Featured. If it's PokeScience (read: Discusses an aspect of the Pokemon World in a scientific style), then it goes in one of the folders.

To better understand what goes in the Science folders, please refer to this page. If you want a sub folder added, to be later put inside another folder for when we're a super group, please comment here.

"Featured Folder" - _{For general pokemon art. These artworks must be of moderate to fine quality and contain only pokemon realism. A marker of whether a pokemon is realistic or styled is the eyes though this is not the only marker. If the eyes do not appear realistic, the deviation will be declined. This is not the only case of declination but it is the most common one.}

Pokemon Teams - _{Technically a subfolder of Featured, this one is specifically for artwork of a team of pokemon where all art is again, general realism.}

Literature - _{For general literature deviations that are categorised as "art".}

PP Applications - _{For OC references that used this template. Visual references can be attached to the application as the preview image, with additional ones linked in the description if applicable}

Pokemon Reports - _{Only for Pokemon reports written for the Pokemon report project. See here for more information. [need to add link]}

The Pokemon Evolutionary Genome Project - _{More information yet to come on this}

Natural Sciences

Biology Anatomy Bellumology (Pokemon Attacks) Facultology (Pokemon Types) Evolution Genetics Geosciences Botany

Social and Behavioural Sciences

History Culinary Geography Mythology

Applied Sciences

Pokeitems Engineering

Care Guides - _{For reports and journals regarding Pokemon raising, specific care information and captive breeding techniques.}

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Submission Guidelines

General

1. Gallery Submissions are Open everyday.
2. You may submit any number of Submissions per week.
3. You must be a member of the group to send us a submission. To become a member, click the "Join Our Group" Button. You will be notified when your membership is approved.
4. To Submit, click on the "Contribute Art" button found at the top of the front page in the Blue menu Groups bar, and on the left side of the front page in the Side Bar. You can also go straight to a specific folder and click on the "Submit to this Folder" button on the top right of each folder.
5. Folders are accessible from the drop down menu after you have clicked on "Contribute Art". Please submit to the appropriate section, contributions to the incorrect section will be declined/removed.

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Deviation Requirements

1. A variety of deviation mediums and medias will be accepted into the gallery.
2. Literature deviations must relate to the pokemon world in a realistic sense. We accept any literature (reports, studies, fanfiction, etc) but it must contain a reasonable amount of realistic detail, at least 50%, that depicts the pokemon world in a "scientific" way.
   
3. Non-literature deviations must be "scientific" or realistic. We do not accept cartoons and semi-realism pieces will be considered individually.
   
4. Non-literature deviations that may be accepted if they do not follow the above guideline are those that contribute to our understanding of the pokemon world in a "scientific" sense.
   
5. We will not accept any works containing 'Fakémon', including but not limited to fan-made evolutions, fan-made pre-evolutions, fan-made mega evolutions and fan-made primal reversions.
   
6. Please do not submit the same submission twice. Alts or Variants of Poke-realism are welcome in our Featured folders [given they meet the above], though we encourage you to use the chance to discuss the changes, amendments and so on, particularly if the art is only a recolour.

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Other

1. Submissions must be of your own work. Please do not post work that you have found online or that contains material or Stock without the original creators permission and consent, along with proper credit on your original piece. Failure to do so is considered Copyright Infringement, and we will remove any pieces immediately without question if it is found to contain such material.
   • If you have used stock please give credit with links on your piece and follow their usage terms, stock artists work hard so give them the credit they deserve.
2. No explicit submissions, but mild artistic nudity is acceptable at the staff's discretion.
3. No excessive blood/gore, sexual explicit material or implied sexual innuendos.
4. No depictions of any other inappropriate subject matter, whether implied or obvious.
5. No vulgarity whether through text or pose. [This club is intended to be viewed by a general audience with a wide age demographic. Please keep that in mind when submitting your work.]
6. Must adhere to all deviantArt submission guidelines and TOS at all times.
7. In general, we will decline WIP submissions as we would rather wait for the finished product.
8. If a piece is submitted to the wrong folder, we will decline it and instruct you where it best be presented.
9. Non-Literature deviations will not be declined if presented in a language other than English, though we will request an English translation of any important notes/commentary OR a summary of them in the artist's comments, written in English.
10. Literature deviations may contain languages other than English as appropriate (e.g. a character reads a book in Latin, or talks to someone in Spanish), however the primary language used must be English.

Admins will screen entries before they are submitted. We retain the right to decline or remove submissions at any time. If you keep submitting art that doesn't meet our standards, you may earn a warning. After that moderators will act as they see best for everyone. Please don't spam us!