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Rules Art Gallery Rules (Updated October 30th, 2023)

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Welcome to the Art Gallery!

Here you can post your creative works, like drawings (both traditional and digital), graphic art (sprites, signature banners, image manipulations, etc.), and multimedia creations (songs, music videos, etc).

If you would like to offer your creative services to other users, you can create an Art Shop thread in the Art Shops sub-section. Be sure to read the Art Shop relevant rules before opening a shop though.

Rules

1. Please follow all forumwide Bulbagarden Rules
  • This includes the flaming rule, which applies when commenting on other people's art.
  • This also includes not posting porn or other inappropriate content.
  • Art containing gore/blood/other shocking content is allowed within spoiler tags.
2. Only make one thread for your artwork.
  • Just make a new post in it if you have new artwork to show.
  • You can make a separate thread if you do various different forms of art (e.g. drawing and making videos), OR if you have a large ongoing project you want to keep separate from your general art. (such as but not limited to: fakemon pokedex, comic series, themed series set, etc)
3. Put large images within spoiler tags.
  • This goes for images larger than 500px in either height or length.
  • Select the image > select the + button in the editing menu > select Spoiler > insert the title for your work > select Continue.
4. Don't use misleading spoiler tags or links.
- Be honest about what users can find in a spoiler tag or link, especially if the content contains shocking/gory/etc. material.

5. Don’t steal other people’s art (plagiarism).
- This includes tracing/editing someone else’s art.

6. Don’t hijack someone else’s thread.
- Post your art in your own art thread and not in someone else's.

7. Don't offer your artwork for payment.
- It is allowed to draw free requests or do art trades.

8. Your Art Thread should only contain your own artwork.
- Even if you receive permission to post another user’s or off-site friend’s artwork, please do so in a fanworks/gifts thread in our Blogs section that is relevant to your works.

Note: The Art Gallery and Writers Workshop have different rules for mature themes. This is because writing is easier to tag and avoid for those that don't want to see it.

Art Gallery Archive
The Art Gallery Archive is for threads that have been inactive for more than a year. If your thread ends up in here and you want to continue using it, just ask a Moderator to unarchive the thread for you.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask one of the moderators of the section: @DawningWinds or @Blanc
 
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Oops, I just realized almost all of my fanart would possibly contravene Article #5 of the above regulations - being tracings of official artworks. I guess it's too late to ask, but are we still allowed to say, recreate official (or even other people's) artworks with our own pens/paint? Of course, this is assuming we clearly cite the original author.

To put it another way: If Van Gogh was alive today and was a member here, would his Japonaiserie series be okay here?
 
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Oops, I just realized almost all of my fanart would possibly contravene Article #5 of the above regulations - being tracings of official artworks. I guess it's too late to ask, but are we still allowed to say, recreate official (or even other people's) artworks with our own pens/paint? Of course, this is assuming we clearly cite the original author.

To put it another way: If Van Gogh was alive today and was a member here, would his Japonaiserie series be okay here?
This is a rather complex question. We have this rule to protect other peoples art, so it gets kinda tricky dragging famous artwork into this.

The Copyright law states that art is protected by the law up until 50-100 years after the artist passes (although this varies from country to country). Van Gogh died in 1890, which means that using his art would be fine, as long as you don't take the credits, of course.
 
A piece of artwork I submitted was recently removed on grounds of being inappropriate. I don't see a section here that specifically denotes what content is acceptable to post, and what is not. Other than "don't post porn" I don't know where to draw the line. Gore is allowed in spoiler tags, which itself is explicit, so can anyone give me more details?

The literature section allows you to rate content as high as adult. Can visual works be rated this way? I'd like to know ahead of time so I don't make any mistakes.

Thank you! <3
 
A piece of artwork I submitted was recently removed on grounds of being inappropriate. I don't see a section here that specifically denotes what content is acceptable to post, and what is not. Other than "don't post porn" I don't know where to draw the line. Gore is allowed in spoiler tags, which itself is explicit, so can anyone give me more details?

The literature section allows you to rate content as high as adult. Can visual works be rated this way? I'd like to know ahead of time so I don't make any mistakes.

Thank you! <3

Hey, Incinerawr! :D

Regarding the artwork you had posted, I've got the chance to look at it before it got removed. While there isn't any mention of that kind of content in this specific thread, the OP redirects to the forumwide rules as well, which cite as follows:

12. Don't post offensive or oversexualized images (Inappropriate Content) [10 points, 4 months]
- Don't use pictures that focus on or draw attention to breasts, buttocks and/or crotches (even clothed) as avatars or in your signature.
- Don't use images of partially nude people (in lingerie, in underwear, etc.) as your avatar or signature.
- Don't use imagery associated with hate movements, ideologies or groups (Confederate States, Alt-Right, etc.) as avatars or in your signature.
- Outside of avatars and signatures, excessive or disrespectful use of such images may be considered Inappropriate Content or Abuse and Harassment.

Hence why your picture had to be removed, I'm afraid. :/ Though, don't let that deter you from posting more art. Just try to keep the rules in mind in the future for when you will want to post new content, alright? ^^

Hope to have clarified this detail for you.
 
Hey, Incinerawr! :D

Regarding the artwork you had posted, I've got the chance to look at it before it got removed. While there isn't any mention of that kind of content in this specific thread, the OP redirects to the forumwide rules as well, which cite as follows:



Hence why your picture had to be removed, I'm afraid. :/ Though, don't let that deter you from posting more art. Just try to keep the rules in mind in the future for when you will want to post new content, alright? ^^

Hope to have clarified this detail for you.

Aah, thank you! That clears up a lot. ^w^ I'll be more careful in the future!
 
Do color edits of shiny forms go in this section? I'm fixing to share some shiny edits I made and let others post their own in the same thread, but I'm not sure which section of the forum is most appropriate for such a thread.
 
Hiya! I've got a question I really want to get cleared up before I continue with my Art Challenge thread. In order to do some proper figure studies, I was wondering if it were possible to use 'artistic nudity' or more specifically, nude shots taken specifically for figure study/lighting practice and so on, so forth. I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask or this was already answered somewhere else!

I was curious since I had to do such studies in my art class in university, and have considered bringing them here, but I am unsure what is allowed in this regard-- or how intense it is allowed to be.

Whatever answer I receive, clarification would be great, so thank you so much in advance!
 
Hiya! I've got a question I really want to get cleared up before I continue with my Art Challenge thread. In order to do some proper figure studies, I was wondering if it were possible to use 'artistic nudity' or more specifically, nude shots taken specifically for figure study/lighting practice and so on, so forth. I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask or this was already answered somewhere else!

I was curious since I had to do such studies in my art class in university, and have considered bringing them here, but I am unsure what is allowed in this regard-- or how intense it is allowed to be.

Whatever answer I receive, clarification would be great, so thank you so much in advance!
Thanks for the question but think it's best to avoid any kind of nudity and would say no.

There is an exception in the inappropriate content rules about "historical or non-sexualised art" being allowed but although some of the Art Challenge prompts could potentially fall under the latter of those exceptions replies to the prompts could drift into rule breaking territory.
 
Thanks for the question but think it's best to avoid any kind of nudity and would say no.

There is an exception in the inappropriate content rules about "historical or non-sexualised art" being allowed but although some of the Art Challenge prompts could potentially fall under the latter of those exceptions replies to the prompts could drift into rule breaking territory.
This is entirely understandable, thank you! I will do my best to use the safest figure references I can.
 
I have a question - would stuff created in video games count as 'art' and be allowed to be posted in this subforum?

To be clear, I'm not talking about posting like bog standard screenshots taken while playing a game, that's obviously not art, but stuff like this, where I create 'scenes' using mods and custom content with this game and have to place and position all the assets I use, position and adjust the camera, time of day, etc. to create the scene I want to make exactly how I want it.

Thanks.
 
I have a question - would stuff created in video games count as 'art' and be allowed to be posted in this subforum?

To be clear, I'm not talking about posting like bog standard screenshots taken while playing a game, that's obviously not art, but stuff like this, where I create 'scenes' using mods and custom content with this game and have to place and position all the assets I use, position and adjust the camera, time of day, etc. to create the scene I want to make exactly how I want it.

Thanks.
Sorry for the wait! Took us a bit to figure out where this was gonna go.

Yes, it’s fine to make an art thread of screenshots like this because they are your own derivative works and it would be best to keep them all in one place! If you do any other art mediums though, feel free to make a separate thread for those.
 
Sorry for the wait! Took us a bit to figure out where this was gonna go.

Yes, it’s fine to make an art thread of screenshots like this because they are your own derivative works and it would be best to keep them all in one place! If you do any other art mediums though, feel free to make a separate thread for those.
Hey good to know, thanks!
 
Would I be able to post an artwork in multiple places?

For example: if I posed a drawing on the art trade thread, would I also be able to post it to my art blog?
Yep! You're perfectly okay to post your stuff from other threads here to your main art thread as well.
 
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