I wish Elfwood Rants was still up.

[ellenmillion]

I have until the end of the month to 'clean up my galleries' or I'm getting like half my pieces removed.

What. The. Hell.

Some of the gems:

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/crystalgatherer74.jpg.html

(non-genre. Because crystals grow on trees all the time.)

http://www.elfwood.com/libr/m/i/million3/dancingintherain.htm.html

(Too much white space at the end of the document.)

http://www.elfwood.com/art/m/i/million/amandafinished.jpg.html

(non-genre. Despite the description?)

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/cuddly.jpeg.html

(They disapprove of the cropping and think there's too much white space to the left.)

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/millionaurorabluegreen.jpg.html

(You tell me.)

It goes on like this for another 20 pieces.

I don't have TIME to 'fix' everything before the deadline. Bad week to poke the bear.

Comments

[jillbamfette.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with any of those... It really irks me that unless it's got pointy ears and/or a tail or whatever, you have to go to such great pains to make the announcement 'this picture takes place in a fantasy world!!!!' in your description. I had 2 pictures of knights removed for this reason and it irked me, since they were fairly idealized fairy tale knights.

and I think that picture with the dragon is cropped fine, it follows the rule of thirds, dead center compositions are boring (despite having a few of them myself) and placing them off-center makes it more interesting... croping it so it would be centered would make the picture seem 'cramped' in my opinion.

That last picture... I haven't the faintest idea. It's a flippin fairy, so it can't possibly be non-genre, it's a finished piece, not on lined paper or anything, so... I'm stumped.

*edit- oh yeah, I forgot to say. without fail this always happens when I'm beginning to think 'hey, maybe Elfwood's finally coming around!'. I so want it to be the old place I remember when it started that I'm kind of a hopeless optimist about it, always thinking that it will get better. and I have had good luck with recent tickets (3 tickets all processed in a day, one got mods choice) and the forums seem cool enough, and they listened to me about Project Wonderful, then this happens and I see they're up to their old nitpicky anal ways.