EDIT: Quick service note: due to my thesis, I will be on hiatus from moderating for the foreseeable months. I will still be around but I will not be a moderator. As such, active moderators will answer you and use this thread. Sorry for the inconvenience
This is the introduction thread to the sandbox forum. Here you will be given the guidelines for this forum. Of course, it is always a work in progress so new ones may be added from time to time.
This forum was created with the idea that artist need to improve themselves and often seeing the work-in-progress is the
only way to give useful suggestions. Also, the Minitokyo main gallery is for wallpapers with a certain degree of
quality; so use this forum if you're not sure about your wallpapers.
This forum is completely separated from the art forum. The art forum is for tutorials, techniques and programs. This
forum is for getting feedback on specific work-in-progress.
These are the guidelines you'll have to follow:
- You will not submit these wallpapers in the main gallery of Minitokyo in order to show us. You will submit them
elsewhere, either on some personal web space or on a free image web hosting site. Some examples are
~ http://www.photobucket.com/
~ http://www.imageshack.us/
- You will post one thread per wallpaper. Such thread must contain, in the title, as much useful information as
possible. For example if you're doing a grunge wallpaper, say so in the title. This will ensure that the right
members will find your thread and give you useful suggestions
- You will provide a FULL SIZE image. Not much can be said about resized images...
- Every comment posted in said threads will be useful. Comments like "I love this honey" will be reported and
deleted on the spot. This will be enforced mercilessly in order to maintain a minimum level of comment quality
- Every comment will be polite. You are supposed to be honest, NOT to harass aspiring artists
- This section has low minimum standards, but still you are not to post extremely simplistic or low quality work, or
unfinished work. They are supposed to be work-in-progress, not barely started wallpapers
- If you work on your wallpaper and improve it, be sure to update the linked image and show us before (eventually)
posting it in the main gallery
- Any suggestion here is just that. Of course if, say, a moderator suggest you to clean the scan, you should listen if
you want to post it in the main gallery. But as a rule of thumb, keep in mind that these are suggestions.
- You will ask for thread closure after your wallpaper has been posted and accepted in the main gallery or after you
don't want feedback anymore. This is to avoid people reviving old, now useless threads.
P.S. if you know a GOOD, reliable free image web hosting site, please let me now and I'll add it to the list.
