Topic: New here, asked to post my art here by a friend on recommendation

Posted under Art Talk

Title reads, although I have a pair of questions about what I should post:

a. Is any of my art allowed to be posted by my hand?

b. Should I post from old to new, or almost always new?

My personal recommendation is to take it slowly. You don't want to push so much only for it to backfire--E621 has strict requirements and it's best to test the waters. A new one and an old one could be uploaded together, if it works, close that net towards the median. Let folk catch up from the start and the end together. If you're curious if particular pieces meet quality standards, you can message the staff, or risk contacting other users you feel are trustworthy enough (though, do note, even a trustworthy user who won't "steal the upload" might give incorrect advice. It is still based on the approvers' whims).

Probably read this, to give some idea what we look for when approving or deleting uploads, here is our uploading guidelines page: https://e621.net/wiki_pages/11143

Also, you can look at just the posts which have been approved using this search: https://e621.net/posts?tags=status%3Aapproved
By looking at only the images that were approved, you can get some feel for what is commonly approved. In the long term, if you see a post was pending and then later see it was approved or that it got deleted, then that will give you some idea of what we look for as well.

It is harder to see which ones are deleted, because a deleted post won't show you the image after it is deleted. But you could look at https://e621.net/posts?tags=status%3Adeleted+hassource%3Atrue and then see what the reason was and then check the source link to see what it looked like. Some of the most common deletion reasons are: 1, technical quality reasons (blurryness, artifacts, compression, low quality file, bad photo, etc), 2, or leaked paysite or forbidden artists Do Not Post reasons, 3, or irrelevant to our furry/non-human-focus/anthropomorphic theme here on e621 types of reasons, 4, or it could have artistic quality issues (anatomy, proportions, etc that is maybe too rough to be just artistic style)... Although most of these guidelines are in that uploading guidelines page that I linked first.

i see you already uploaded some

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overall your anatomy is pretty on-point and i'd say that's the 1 big thing when it comes to what makes for quality art!
elliot seems to have a bit of a neck and i can tell that it was from a while ago, but given your newer stuff should pretty easily pass QA on this site, and i'm looking forward to the approaches you take in another 5 years

i will give this advice when tagging your work: please please PLEASE post the year that you made your art in the tag feild. ideally every post on this site would be tagged with the date it was made, but i guess it's something that slips some people's minds and disregarded as usless

dripen_arn said:
i will give this advice when tagging your work: please please PLEASE post the year that you made your art in the tag feild. ideally every post on this site would be tagged with the date it was made, but i guess it's something that slips some people's minds and disregarded as usless

In addition to this, and perhaps more importantly, tag the artist. Yes, that means you tag yourself on pictures you've uploaded. You do want people to know who did it, right?

Further, when possible, add sources.

dripen_arn said:
i see you already uploaded some

post #4014952 post #4014933 post #4014729

overall your anatomy is pretty on-point and i'd say that's the 1 big thing when it comes to what makes for quality art!
elliot seems to have a bit of a neck and i can tell that it was from a while ago, but given your newer stuff should pretty easily pass QA on this site, and i'm looking forward to the approaches you take in another 5 years

i will give this advice when tagging your work: please please PLEASE post the year that you made your art in the tag feild. ideally every post on this site would be tagged with the date it was made, but i guess it's something that slips some people's minds and disregarded as usless

Thank you! I'll take it into consideration, to be honest.

clawstripe said:
In addition to this, and perhaps more importantly, tag the artist. Yes, that means you tag yourself on pictures you've uploaded. You do want people to know who did it, right?

Further, when possible, add sources.

In fact, it goes out of way to 'encourage' us to post the artist name. XD

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