I want to post drawings I made here, but the scan isn't exactly top quality. All I have is a shitty phone app that can just barely get something readable during the morning or afternoon.

I'm asking because I tried to upload one of pervynamek02/DNLtiger04's digital pieces here and it got deleted due to supposedly not meeting quality standards. I want to know where the threshold lies.

there's a comprehensive FAQ in forum #235851 for everything related to everything else being deleted.

If you have to, run touchup on your computer. It may not be as good as if you could scan, but it could still work out good enough.

A few examples of my drawings in various states.

Raw scan
Touched up scan
Hasty flat colors
Colored with PaintsChainer

tkongingi said:
A few examples of my drawings in various states.

Raw scan
Touched up scan
Hasty flat colors
Colored with PaintsChainer

First thing first. Dont use paintschainer on its own. Use it as a guideline maybe but really dont rely on it

The PaintsChainer version looks the worst of them all. I don't know anything about the program, but honestly looking at that result, at least for now, don't use it.

Work more on your fundamental anatomy before trying to do anything fancy with color. Try to draw different poses, get more of a feel for the structure of characters.

Clawdragons said:
The PaintsChainer version looks the worst of them all. I don't know anything about the program, but honestly looking at that result, at least for now, don't use it.

Work more on your fundamental anatomy before trying to do anything fancy with color. Try to draw different poses, get more of a feel for the structure of characters.

I'm not asking for art advice. I just want to know if my linearts need extra work (like a touch up on the computer to increase contrast or make lines more visible) to be acceptable here.

I'm not asking for art advice. I just want to know if my linearts need extra work (like a touch up on the computer to increase contrast or make lines more visible) to be acceptable here.

i dont think that changing contrast is going to help here. some basic anatomy skills, hand steadiness (the lines are wobbly ands sketchy) and tools (tiny details are drawn with way too thick lines) seem to be the bigger issue.

tkongingi said:
I'm not asking for art advice. I just want to know if my linearts need extra work (like a touch up on the computer to increase contrast or make lines more visible) to be acceptable here.

Poor scan quality is only one factor of many that are taken into account as to whether or not an image will be accepted to e621.

I'm not a janitor, or a mod, or whatever else, so I'm not someone who approves or rejects images. So... take that into consideration. But with that said, it is my opinion that no matter how you touched up your lines, the base linework is too flawed. I don't think it would meet the minimum quality standards.

You may not be directly looking for art advice, but you are looking for advice on how to get your work up to minimum quality standards, and in this case the answer to both inquiries is the same.

tkongingi said:

I'm not asking for art advice. I just want to know if my linearts need extra work

So.. You want art advice but you DON'T want art advice...

Clawdragons said:
But with that said, it is my opinion that no matter how you touched up your lines, the base linework is too flawed. I don't think it would meet the minimum quality standards.

I don't think my anatomy and cartooning are worse than some of the garbage allowed on this site, but hey, I don't need this place either.

tkongingi said:
I don't think my anatomy and cartooning are worse than some of the garbage allowed on this site, but hey, I don't need this place either.

the anatomy is not the biggest issue either. the lines are wobbly, smudged and way too thick in wrong places. this combined with flawed anatomy makes it look bad as whole. draw in bigger size, invest in better tools (because this looks like that you are either drawing with too hard pencils for defined outlines or you are drawing with markers on paper not suitable for markers), train your hand steadiness, learn about line weighting and lastly, get a better scanner.

tkongingi said:
I don't think my anatomy and cartooning are worse than some of the garbage allowed on this site, but hey, I don't need this place either.

Okay. Bye then.

If you ever feel like getting advice on improving your art, we'll be around.

Honestly I think having a page with visual examples of what is and isn't to standard would help.

We have some old images that are well below our quality standard. We could go fetch a few of those for examples.