Darntheluck said: I've seen a lot worse on this site that didn't get flagged. Better go flag all of those as well.
I wish that use of this argument was an auto-ban. It's like arguing that you shouldn't be arrested for stealing purses because people have gotten away with robbing banks before.
Except that's not my argument at all. My argument is that you can't single out a picture for not being as good as the others. If you do that, you have to apply that standard to all of them. So unless you are prepared to set a standard, retroactively hold all posts on this site too it, and delete every single picture that does not meet that standard in the past, future, and present, then shut up just because you think a picture isn't quite good enough.
And for the record, this picture does have its flaws, but I don't think it warrants deletion when there are things like post #623436 floating around.
That's all well and good, but over here in the real world it's impossible to have 40 mods perfectly agree on something as subjective as art quality, let alone consistently enforce that standard on the over 850,000 posts that have been uploaded in the past 5 years.
Instead posts are flagged and sent to the mod queue for review as people come across them. Most bad posts are here only because no one has bothered to flag them yet.
Your specific example actually has been flagged, but it was reapproved. I don't think it should have been reapproved, but that just goes to show how difficult it is to always agree on quality.
All I want to know is what's questionable about it in Bapabooiee's eyes, since he/she's the one that flagged the picture. They're the one that could do something about it as well, I think.
I'm just going to say right now, this looks remarkably like saya26's stuff. I was making a HUGE post here about how this should get through, but thinking about it, if I say that this should get in because it looks like saya26's stuff (which gets approved), then the picture will get marked as plagiarism or some such, and then get deleted not because it's, quote, "questionable quality" (because then you should delete saya26's stuff and all that smoke), but because the artist may or may not be stealing someone else's art style.
First of all, that post is nearly a year old. Nobody except the most obsessive-compulsive (and bored) bean-counter, and someone specifically going through posts associated with it (e.g. the pool it's in), at this point, is going to even bother to look at it, much less flag it.
Second of all, that post was approved by Seem, who has since been admonished for his poor approvals.
JakeBob said: I'm just going to say right now, this looks remarkably like saya26's stuff.
It really doesn't. Compare, say, post #833718 to this one; immediately, you should be able to see how much more effort was put into the shading/highlights on the hair and eyes alone. From there, you can either move up to the hat, where saya26 has actually made an effort to realistically model the creases of the ribbon rather than just tossing in a few lines and calling it a day, or down to the neck and hands, which are not a pencil and sausages, respectively, in saya26's work. Let's not forget about the clothes, to which the same argument about detail level that I made for the hat ribbon applies tenfold, the sense of life/movement/energy, which is pretty nonexistent in this picture, and the little details (like how Koishi's eye couldn't possibly be attached to her in this picture).
I mean, come on, man, look at the picture. I can see how you might find this similar to saya26's work if you lean away from the monitor and squint, but even a cursory examination of detail should tell you how many miles apart these two artists are.
JakeBob said: but because the artist may or may not be stealing someone else's art style.
glasnost said: It really doesn't. Compare, say, post #833718 to this one; immediately, you should be able to see how much more effort was put into the shading/highlights on the hair and eyes alone. From there, you can either move up to the hat, where saya26 has actually made an effort to realistically model the creases of the ribbon rather than just tossing in a few lines and calling it a day, or down to the neck and hands, which are not a pencil and sausages, respectively, in saya26's work. Let's not forget about the clothes, to which the same argument about detail level that I made for the hat ribbon applies tenfold, the sense of life/movement/energy, which is pretty nonexistent in this picture, and the little details (like how Koishi's eye couldn't possibly be attached to her in this picture).
I mean, come on, man, look at the picture. I can see how you might find this similar to saya26's work if you lean away from the monitor and squint, but even a cursory examination of detail should tell you how many miles apart these two artists are.
Also, pretty sure we don't delete for that.
And this is why I wouldn't be good as an art critic. I just like how the pictures look.