art galleries

[egypturnash]

I found an online gallery devoted solely to vector art. It looks like the underlying database is the same as Epilogue. I joined, but haven't put any of my crap up on it yet. I must decide if I will put any of my animal-head people stuff on it or not.

Warning: the server makes DeviantArt look positively speedy.

Meanwhile, in the world of the realists, Epilogue rejected that self-portrait, citing their 'no rough/unfinished stuff' rule. Which has the noted exception that 'of course, this does not exclude stylistic or painterly techniques'. I re-submitted it with a description that explicitly says that 'the subject seemed more suitable to a chaotic, painterly handling than my usual crisp Illustrator treatment.'

Comments

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I've had some of my stuff rejected by Epilogue. Apparently being published doesn't matter either, since the piece that was rejected for being unfinished was in Unknown Armies' Postmodern Magick. :D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think it depends on the mood of whoever happens to review it in the case of something that's not the standard third-hand Frazetta (by way of second-hand Boris) or second-hand Froud that's the default there. I might put it up on their 'Works in Progress' forum, which is where one is directed for asking 'whyfor evil admins bounce my aaaart??!?!'. Deliberate roughness does not rub them the right way.

I have to wonder what would happen if I did a <http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/>Richard Powers style swipe.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

What's great is half the stuff in Rick Berry and Phil Hale's Double Memory book would likely be invalid for inclusion. Unfortuantely, that's my favorite art book, so oh well. :D

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

...adding 'You are fucking morons' at the end.

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

How you manage to maintain several galleries simultaneously is beyond me. Drawing enough art of a sufficiently superior nature to maintain a certain level of snobbish credibility in one gallery is almost beyond me...and it's not like I'm really pushing any boundaries there.
It is just a fact that I am truly bone-lazy.
A tip of my hat to your enviable tenacity to be seen and heard.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The main hassle, aside from deciding which galleries a piece belongs in, is sizing the damn things to fit within each site's size and file format restrictions. GfxArtist: Mo more than 640px wide, and you have to provide two specifically-sized thumbnails. Epilogue: 700px wide at most, must be JPEG. IllustratorWorld, Deviant: No restriction that I can find. VCL: 800px in either dimension, but only a suggestion, not a hard rule. And each site has its own unique set of ways to describe and categorize the images.

The most annoying part is probably wondering about the category restrictions on themed galleries. I don't fit in on a fantasy gallery, I don't fit in on a furry gallery, I probably won't quite fit in on this vector gallery either - though a random browsing does reveal some people who're actually working in a similar idiom to me.

I have toyed with the idea writing a tool to let me just generate one huge rendering, then submit to every archive simultaneousy, with what I enter in one common field copied to all. This is hackish laziness: exerting immense amounts of efforts to automate a simple, but tedious task. I haven't done anything more than some interface design thoughts, and probably never will.

god bwess you, peggy.. every one

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

there, that wasn't so hard :^) i knew some place like that must exist. i just joined and already tossed some stuff at them. we'll see how it goes. why avoid putting up animal headed people? there's plenty of genre art there already, and nothing's to prevent you from uploading non-furry work later, etc. go for it! i'll leave you positive comments if you leave me positive comments! >_

Re: god bwess you, peggy.. every one

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I've just gotten so tired of my furry art. While I learned things doing it, I look back at it and mostly feel like I was using it as an excuse to not progress for about twenty whole years. Building my own little set of stylistic cliches, distinct from but related to the standard furry cliches, and rolling them out endlessly.

Re: god bwess you, peggy.. every one

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

so i submitted four images and they all were summarily introduced into my directory by the editor. however two of those four images were corrupted files and looked mangled for some strange reason. yet they were passed by the editor, so i'm not so sure how keenly observed uploads tend to be. i've since reuploaded the two images and sent email to their feedback address. it might be an issue on my end, or something to do with their end. buuuuut... 50% quality control isn't so reassuring. perhaps, they thought the "garbled look" was intentional and let it slide? hmm...

[milkpanzer.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for Epilogue to initiate the "No more generic naked fantasy femmes....especially with asses so round they appear drawn with a compass" rule.

Hey, I like looking at seksey girls but *geez* like every other image involves some scantily-clad heroine.

Aaaanyway... I'm cynical enough to realize before I even joined that Epilogue ran mainly on schmooze. I'm cynical enough to accept that and only be mildly irritated when I had something rejected. I just rolled my eyes. I also figured that if I ran a art archive I'd probably end up being pretty picky and snotty myself. ;D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think that would be otherwise known as the 'we are shutting down' rule!