I posted some traditional art that was done pretty well, with skillful traditional coloring, anatomy, and that stuff. It didn't 'meet quality standards'. So I wish to know what quality standards are. Is it a rule that disallows traditional coloring? Is it a rule that puts a much higher standard on traditional art than poorly-done digital art?

Agreed i posted some drwan stuff too, but they were not too good bit better than some tigital stuff here, but it got taken down wich is quite undersandable, i've seen worst stuff on this site wich wasn't taken down for some reason, but i don't know why did yours got taken down.

Traditional art is allowed. While I have not been involved in the deletion of those, my guess would be that with the first one the photo was taken badly. Take sharp photos of just the art and nothing more with a digital camera when you plan to upload it here. The second one lacked detail, as in it was too "simple" so to say. It wasn't a bad drawing, it was just a bit too simple.

Hudson said:
Traditional art is allowed. While I have not been involved in the deletion of those, my guess would be that with the first one the photo was taken badly. Take sharp photos of just the art and nothing more with a digital camera when you plan to upload it here. The second one lacked detail, as in it was too "simple" so to say. It wasn't a bad drawing, it was just a bit too simple.

Rather than a camera, if you've got a scanner that's guaranteed to get a stable, high quality digitalization of the image.

Too hard to say anything when there's no way to see the deleted post anywhere. Guessing either post #946161 or post #946193, neither has any sources to look for the image either.

Hudson said:
While I have not been involved in the deletion of those, my guess would be that with the first one the photo was taken badly. Take sharp photos of just the art and nothing more with a digital camera when you plan to upload it here.

What is it these days and people using camera for everything these days.

Protip: get or borrow a scanner. It's impossible to post physical media to internet, which means you have to make it digital somehow and scanner is the dedicated tool for that. Unless you have some professional level camera, scanner will always win in quality.

Mario69 said:
Too hard to say anything when there's no way to see the deleted post anywhere. Guessing either post #946161 or post #946193, neither has any sources to look for the image either.

What is it these days and people using camera for everything these days.

Protip: get or borrow a scanner. It's impossible to post physical media to internet, which means you have to make it digital somehow and scanner is the dedicated tool for that. Unless you have some professional level camera, scanner will always win in quality.

I dunno, the camera I had on my phone that I lost a few days ago was pretty damn decent. I guess it's kind of hit-or-run with manufacturers.

Furrin_Gok said:
Rather than a camera, if you've got a scanner that's guaranteed to get a stable, high quality digitalization of the image.

Scanners are nice, but not obligatory. Good quality photographs will suffice (taken the photo contains content we would approve).

Mario69 said:
What is it these days and people using camera for everything these days.

Protip: get or borrow a scanner. It's impossible to post physical media to internet, which means you have to make it digital somehow and scanner is the dedicated tool for that. Unless you have some professional level camera, scanner will always win in quality.

While that's true, scanners will never win from cameras on the aspect of versatility. I'd rather have a (smartphone with) camera that can perform multiple tasks than a scanner limited to just a few, even if that means a (slight) drop in photo quality.

Too hard to say anything when there's no way to see the deleted post anywhere. Guessing either post #946161 or post #946193, neither has any sources to look for the image either.

The first one shows the rings of the binder and the paper is somewhat tilted, not to mention a small shadow is visible. The second one has to do with the quality of the art itself.

Nikolaithefur said:
I dunno, the camera I had on my phone that I lost a few days ago was pretty damn decent. I guess it's kind of hit-or-run with manufacturers.

Hudson said:
While that's true, scanners will never win from cameras on the aspect of versatility. I'd rather have a (smartphone with) camera that can perform multiple tasks than a scanner limited to just a few.

If I would like to print myself a poster, I could do it with regular printer, because it's versatile as I can use it to print my documents and small photos as well.
Alternatively I can take the image of poster and go to local photo shop and let them professionally print them for pocket money, even better just upload it to online store and they send it to me in mail. Then it will be in quality paper, printed higher quality than my printer ever could and much larger than A4 is.

That's where I'm getting at. Yes, many cameras these days do take surprisingly good images and if you literally can't use anything else they do suffice, especially if you touch it up with image manipulation software. But when you are storing and sharing stuff, you really want to have it as high quality as possible and I have never been able to take even near as high quality photos of stuff (and I am amazed of my phones camera quality) that my scanner can scan.

To me this feels similar as saving as jpg instead of png or screenshotting by taking photo of screen, just nope. And I sometimes do get really OCD about this kind of trivial matters.

The only thing that really matters (except the art quality iteself) is that you do proper post-production editing, like @Mario69 touched. Even scanned images can benefit greatly from that, but for photos it's almost necessary. It's not very hard to do if doing simple stuff (which still go a long way) and there are many resources on the web for how to transfer physical art to digital.

Proper lighting, angle, and post-editing is more important to a good photo of art than the camera itself is (though you obviously want a decent camera too). Scanners will always be better than a photo though, hands-down.

https://www.freecycle.org/
https://www.craigslist.org/

You might be able to get a scanner for free instead of using one at the public library.