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• Submission Guidelines
• Unacceptable Submissions
• Reproductions Policy
• Terminology
• Against Rudeness Policy
• Blocking Policies and System

Submission Guidelines

Submission Limit

Once per week; one submission every 7 days

Quality Control

We will only accept works that are display intermediate skill or higher.

Incorrect Gallery Submissions

Any submissions sent to the incorrect gallery risks being declined.  Please always double check which gallery you are submitting to!
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Expired Submissions

These rarely occur.  If your submission does expire please feel free to resubmit it.  Sometimes the group system simply does not display all open submissions.

Resubmissions

If your submission is declined please do not submit it to the group again.

Exploitations

Do not remove your accepted deviation from the group and resubmit it in order to have it reappear in our watcher's inboxes.

If you did not draw it do NOT submit it!

We will only accept submissions from the original artist that created the illustration.

Submissions must be attached to the original artist's account!

This means that we will not accept; submissions from shop accounts, submissions from anyone other than the original artist, submissions from those who have commissioned the artwork, or submissions from the concept/creator of an illustration.

Reproductions

We will not accept any submissions believed to be a reproduction of an already existing original work.

Art Theft

We will never, ever accept any submission believed to have been stolen from another artist.

Unacceptable Submissions

WIP/Works In Progress/Incomplete Works

WIPs are illustrations that are currently in progress or incomplete.

Sketch Dumps

Sketch dumps are multiple sketches of usually incomplete works contained in a single deviation.

Memes

Artwork memes are difficult to define.  Some are art surveys others are types of parodies of an existing work.  It's simply something that has been taken, used, and spread by multiple users.

Reproductions

A reproduction is when a person intentionally tries to mimic or reproduce an already existing original work.  We suggest you review these deviantART policies:

FAQ #304: Do you remove copies and trace-over art?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?

Art Theft

Art theft is when a person plagiarizes another artist's work.  We suggest you review these deviantART policies:

FAQ #8: What are violations of the DeviantArt copyright policy?
FAQ #257: What sort of permission do I need to use someone else's work?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?

Uncredited Resources

Uncredited resources occur when a person uses a (valid) stock or resource and not not properly credit the owner/creator.  We suggest you review these deviantART policies:

FAQ #157: Can I use things created by other people in my submissions?
FAQ #193: How do I prove that I had permission to use someone's work?
FAQ #257: What sort of permission do I need to use someone else's work?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?

Colored Manga Scans

Colored manga scans are when a person takes a scanned page from a copyrighted manga and colors it.  This is a copyright violation.

Non-Collaborative Colored Line Art

Non-Collaborative Colored Line Art is when a person uses free line art that has been provided for others to color.

Bases/Dolls

A base is usually a premade drawing where a person can color and draw over.  There are many varieties in base types that can be used for many different types of projects (one of which is called a Doll).  Unfortunately many bases are traced from existing artwork which is something we do not accept.

Image Splicing/Photomanipulations

Image Splicing/Photomanipulation is when a person takes images from multiple resources and patches them together.

Photographs

A photograph is a picture that has been taken with a camera.  Photographed illustrations - that are good quality - that meet the group's quality control are an exemption as of Sept, 14, 2016.

Cosplay

Cosplay is when a person dresses as a character from a film, series, book, or comic.

Non-Drawn Works

Non-drawn works cover everything that basically has been created through any process other than creating an illustration through traditional or digital means.  Crafts, photographs, image splicing, and photomanipulations fall under this category.

100% Realism

Realism styled works attempt to represent things as they appear.  This means there are no obvious anime or manga styles within the illustration.

Sexually Explicit Artwork

Any artwork that is viewed as sexually themed or sexually explicit will not be accepted.  Tasteful artistic nudity is acceptable (with the mature tag)!

Excessive Gore

Excessive gore is anything that goes beyond tasteful and makes others uncomfortable.

Illustrations that are not Anime/Manga

Any artwork that does not show any anime or manga styles will not be accepted as this is an anime/manga group.

Violations of deviantART Policies

Any submissions found to violate deviantART policies will not be accepted.

Reproductions Policy

This group will not accept any type of reproduction of original works.

We use the term reproduction as a broad term to cover copies and traces.  A reproduction is basically to make a copy or duplicate an already existing work.  This does not apply to fan art.  Fan art is creating original illustrations based on an already existing character or universe (sometimes in the same style as the original) but does not attempt to replicate or duplicate an already existing illustration.

The reason we do not accept any reproductions is that there in an unfortunate association with plagiarism with most reproductions.

Terminology

Our group strives to combat copyright violations, plagiarism, and theft through education.  One of the most common issues we encounter is a lack of understanding the true definition of art related terminology.  Defining these terms also helps our communication between our staff and members.

Reproduction

A reproduction is an illustration that attempts to copy, replicate, or duplicate an already existing original work.  Reproductions can be produced by tracing over an original illustration, eye-ball copying, or using vectors.  Reproductions may have the colors changed from the original but still keep to the original as close as possible.

Trace

Tracing is when a person uses layers (digital medium), tracing paper (traditional medium), or a light table (traditional medium) to reproduce an existing illustration as exact as possible.

Copy

Copying is when a person attempts to make a similar or identical version of an original illustration.  This is usually achieved with "eye-balling" the original.

Eye-balling

Eye-balling is when a person freehand copies an original illustration by viewing the original and attempts to make a similar or identical copy.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when a person tries to claim another person's work or idea as their own.  This is connected with reproductions and art theft.  Art theft takes the original illustration and simply claims it as their own whereas reproductions create a copy of an original work where the person then claims it as their own.

Art Theft

Art theft occurs when a person takes an original illustration and tries to pass it off as their own original work when they had no involvement in the production of the illustration.

Reference

A reference is not a reproduction.  In art a reference is when an artist uses resources to help them in creating an original illustration such (i.e. a pose reference).

Resource

A resource is something available for artists to use to enhance their originals works such as; stock images, brushes, patterns, music, etc.  Resources should always be properly credited and should be defined as a resource that is available for use.  An example of something that is not a resource is taking and using an image found through Google Images.

Fan Art

Fan Art are original illustrations that use existing characters from existing universes (from films, series', comics, books) that may attempt to emulate an art style but do not reproduce any official artwork or other fan arts from that same fandom.

Against Rudeness Policy

We will not tolerate any form of disrespect towards our staff members or group members.

This group will not tolerate any form of harassment, flaming, trolling, threats, violence, intimidation, or internet stalking.  Any user found in violation of this policy will be blocked without warning.  Continual harassment and block evading will be reported to the deviantART staff.  This also includes going to the group staff member's personal profile pages after being blocked from the group to attempt to continue harassment.

Blocking Policies and System

Any submission that violate our group policies or deviantART policies will not be accepted.

If a submission is found to be in violation of these policies it will be declined and the user will be given a warning.  Each violation has its severity ranked with a specific point amount.  Members are only permitted a specific maximum amount of points before they are blocked from the group.