Hi guys! Eluuza here! But you shall all call me Mid, because its shorter and sounds cool. XDD
Okay, there have been some confusion over the gallery folders. A lot of things have been submitted wrongly, especially to the digital folder.
So to help stop any further confusion, let me explain what we classify each category as:
EDIT:/// Thanks to the amazing Canon2010, the photography folder has a much more detailed description which i hope will prevent any future confusion. Cookies for you Canon2010!!!!!
Yes guys I do understand it is very long, but it is necessary since cleaning out folders can become a very tiring task for your poor admins.
Featured: Featured can be for ANY type of art.
Featured is for you to submit your very best art to! If you've been working on a graphite of the queen for 3 days, submit it to featured! We want to see the groups best
Photography: Anything submitted to photography should either be straight out of camera, or have been edited in such a way as you may have taken away some elements but you have not added elements from an outside source. For example, the removal of power lines, trash, and other things that take away from the overall impact of the piece are still considered photography. Only in the photojournalism world would things be deemed unethical and as this is not a newspaper or magazine, then such things would not be unethical if done here. The changing of lighting using the lighting that is all ready present in the RAW file. For example, a lightened room made to look dark and sinister through the use of burning, or multiple exposures of the same exact scene, it is not a manipulation because you have not added anything that wasn't all ready there, one has simply taken away from and used available information to represent the image in such a way that could have been done without the use of multiple exposures.
Major dodging and burning, removal of power lines or objects of this nature, removal of blemishes, cropping, changing from colour to b/w, and things of this nature do not constitute a photo-manipulation.
If the following or anything close to it has been done then it would be considered a photo-manipulation:
The changing of body type to the point that it is not believable or it can plainly be seen that it has been manipulated with the liquify tool. The use of filters to the point where it no longer appears as a photograph, adding elements that were not in the original photograph, into the photograph. Any type of morphing, as in vampire fangs (done with liquify) facial elongation, things that make an otherwise normal portrait seem more fantasy related. Unless it has been stated that the effects have been done through physical FX. If it is software enhanced it is a manipulation.
Photo Manipulation: Photo manipulation is for any photo/image that has been largely edited or containing stocks.
Literature: Literature is for anything you have typed in front of your computer screen. It can be a story, a poem, song lyrics, just about anything. Its quite self-explanatory really.
Anime/Manga: Anime/Manga is for any art drawn in that particular style. If you don't know the style, then you obviously wont be submitting here then! This folder is only for original artwork though.
Artistic doodles: Artistic doodles is just for any quick sketch or piece of art that maybe you don't think you've done a good job on. Can be traditional or digital.
Digital: The digital folder is where most of the confusion is at.
Digital is something that has been drawn, coloured, ect, from scratch. Refs can be used for digital art, but can not be part of the image. Bases are permitted but please ask for permission and credit the artist. NO TRACING.
Traditional Art: Traditional art is for anything you have drawn using materials you have at home. Graphite, coloured pencils, felts, ect. NO TRACING. Refs are permitted.
GIFS and Stamps: GIFS and Stamps is for any stamp you have made, or anything animated.
Mature Content: Is for anything that requires a mature content filter. I really mean ANYTHING. Some people try to be sneaky and get past the voting by submitting their mature content deviations to other folders. Do not let me catch you doing it. More info here
Fan Art: Any fan art you have done. Can be done in any style, using any tools. Digital, traditional, ANYTHING!
Crafts and Handmade: Anything you have made by hand. ( Maybe its jewelery, a cute plushie, a key chain, or just a little cut out drawing sitting on your kitchen table.
Then we can all see or read what your talking about. Fan art when done right is basically free advertising and celebrating of the ideas artists or writers and even directors have done, but it can also be a place to imagine our own concepts in this as well, such as in fan fiction(hence why fan fictions themselves get a lot of fan art:some of them are so wonderfully done that if the writter took out all the characters they wrote it using and inserted their own originals it would be its own really really good novel-I dare say better than she who wrote twilight though i have nothing negative to say about her story, it was about an unhealthy obsessive relationship but thats relatively normal for that age group and for the situations the two characters were in... people complain a lot about her grammar though. As a writer myself i defend her in the story and character development aspects. Psychologically speaking, its all very appropriate and how many teen relationships go minus the vampires and werewolves... also why parents and guardians aren't exactly thrilled when their teen children 'fall in love', many are different but many are also not. The writer was originally a fan fiction writer with a large fan base though as far as i know the entire story itself is her entire original idea even away from her fan fictions, and no i don't know which fan fiction writer she is, i just belong to a vast community of fan fiction writers and know she is one, have heard of her but never asked which one was her speaking as everyone has a special fan fiction penname that doesn't give away who they are if you find them through their fanfiction and not through some other way-ie if they post about their fanfiction account though me personally i keep it separate for the most part and rarely bring mine up). Anyway, if its not yours, its fan fiction or fan art, both are considered to be fan art though using different genres(though if its inspired by and not actually using those ideas its still good policy to say 'inspired by' and what inspired you if it was someone elses work though in that case its considered a grey area, if you say inspired by and it still used their ideas and is more a fanfiction or fan art... they can still argue with you that it infringes their writes so i do advocate going over it afterwards and making sure its not an inspired by that looks like the original though in the event its one fan art inspired by another fan art this usually isn't an issue to worry about anyway unless it looks exactly like it, though some original creators are just dicks that will go after everyone and everything so as you may have noticed as an example NOTHING says 'inspired by harry potter' as the writer even went after children playing hop scotch with '2 3/4' as one of their boxes to jump on-though in true hypocrite fashion she admits to looking to fanfiction for ideas during the course of the series and interviews yet never once does she credit which fan fictions inspire her or that she used the ideas from, which is a courtesy all writers should give even if the law would grant them no rights because it was a fan fiction of her work to begin with-its just a courtesy we generally afford one another if we are considered ethical by the rest of the fan fiction community and her doing that was both an honor to the fan fiction writers and an insult after how she went all 'my idea' nazi on people for so even a children's game of hop scotch: however even if nobody has ever heard of what it is because your sister came up with a story and never published it. If its fan art, its fan art. Also, for writers who feel insecure and don't want to publish their works scared it won't be liked fan art and the like actually helps them while letting others know by posting it or sharing it, that you find their work warranting a fan art.