Yeah, it's that time of year again, I have to rewrite my DD guidelines journal. Same old crap, based on common sense. These are my personal rules, they aren't universal, but please keep them in mind when sending me suggestions or I will ignore your note. I get so many god awful suggestions, it's just getting out of hand.
1) The piece has to be good. I mean, really good. I don't care how lovely the artist is or how hard they've been working, the piece needs to be top notch stuff. Look at the art I see every day running my collective (
[link]. If the piece isn't as good as the stuff on there, there's no chance I'm giving it a feature here.
2) The DD is a feature, not an award. I get dozens of notes from people suggesting pieces with tens of thousands of views, and several thousand favourites. Honestly, you think that piece needs more attention? 100 favs is the ceiling - anything above that doesn't need a DD.
3) Perhaps should be the first one, I only feature digital art. No photos.
4) Don't suggest yourself. Two reasons for this; you're going to take it personally if I knock it back (which happened on one occassion recently and really annoyed me - this guy suggested his own work, I said it wasn't DD standard, then he got incredibly pissy told me I shouldn't be so quick to judge other peoples work. What the fuck? That's exactly what he had written to ask me to do). Two, it's just a bit of a wank. If you're that desperate, ask a friend to do it.
That's pretty much it. I'm getting a ridiculous amount of notes these days, and so far this year have actually featured two suggestions. I read everything and look at all the pieces, but henceforth notes that don't pay attention to these pretty logical and simple rules aren't getting a note back.
New dC coming soon, and even a small update on my folio (
[link] - yes, already! It's amazing! Wow! Follow me on twitter (
[link] for updates.
`anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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But of course there are always the rules......
Please please please fave the journal!
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Should be about School Times!
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can't wait for the new dC pack, good luck.
I've gotten backlash from critiquing people's work several times, mainly from fans of the deviant. Ridiculous.
Not me, of course.
Pretty solid guild lines to me though.
reading this I felt a bit ashamed as I have recently sent you a message, and I wasn't intending on adding to your work load, no hard feelings, I do very much respect your work and I would always appreciate a truthful criticism from an established artist like yourself.
All the best with helping out this great community.
Have a good day mate,
Hazim