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Aug. 9th, 2004 01:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraI'm pondering getting a DeviantArt gallery and would like to hear some opinions on the idea.
I haven't updated my Elfwood gallery since the merger of the Sci-fi and Fantasy galleries went through, largely because I'm uncertain about the (new) guidelines. I've always had to ponder how well any particular drawing fit into the guidelines for Fantasy there (basically if it was pre-Elizabethan it fit) and I've seen some great fantasy art get tossed off because of small details such as the characters having eyeglasses that were "too modern". While eyeglasses don't have the obvious history of bikinis or berets (items that have been successfully argued for in the past) they did exist prior to the Elizabethan period, at least reading glasses did. I'm not going to get rid of my Elfwood gallery, but I'm not going to change what I draw to fit there. I feel safe enough putting my nude furries there (the assorted "put some clothes on them!" comments are amusing, and then there's the whole "are you a lesbian?" thing) and the few pieces that actually have 'fantasy' clothing, and the dragons that hardly get any comments....
And I'm certainly not going to get rid of my own art pages, I like having my own site even if I don't have a commenting system there.
The commenting system is why I have an Elfwood gallery, that and it gets me more exposure. And that's pretty much why I'm considering a DeviantArt site, more exposure and a commenting system.
I haven't updated my Elfwood gallery since the merger of the Sci-fi and Fantasy galleries went through, largely because I'm uncertain about the (new) guidelines. I've always had to ponder how well any particular drawing fit into the guidelines for Fantasy there (basically if it was pre-Elizabethan it fit) and I've seen some great fantasy art get tossed off because of small details such as the characters having eyeglasses that were "too modern". While eyeglasses don't have the obvious history of bikinis or berets (items that have been successfully argued for in the past) they did exist prior to the Elizabethan period, at least reading glasses did. I'm not going to get rid of my Elfwood gallery, but I'm not going to change what I draw to fit there. I feel safe enough putting my nude furries there (the assorted "put some clothes on them!" comments are amusing, and then there's the whole "are you a lesbian?" thing) and the few pieces that actually have 'fantasy' clothing, and the dragons that hardly get any comments....
And I'm certainly not going to get rid of my own art pages, I like having my own site even if I don't have a commenting system there.
The commenting system is why I have an Elfwood gallery, that and it gets me more exposure. And that's pretty much why I'm considering a DeviantArt site, more exposure and a commenting system.
