We're a group aimed at bringing together traditional artists and artisans on deviantART.  We are not elitist - we welcome artists of all styles, media and levels of ability - if you're traditional, you're in!



Q: How do I join the club?
A: Just click the "Join Our Group" button on our front page.  

In the Note, you are required to include five (5) links to your traditional art pieces suitable for submission to our gallery. Please refer to our submission rules below. This means you must have at least five deviations categorized under Traditional Art or Artisan Crafts in your gallery. If you have no traditional art, or don't currently meet the minimum requirements to join our group, we encourage you to become a watcher until your body of traditional work increases, and then resubmit your request.

We'd be most grateful if you'd display our icon in your journal or our link in your comment signature - it's not a requirement, but it's a great way to spread the word about us! Alternatively, there's a new "Groups" widget that you can add to your front page that will show our icon.   Here's how:

Q: How do I add the icon to my journal?
A: Just type : icontraditional-artists : (with the colons but without the spaces) into your journal.

Q: How do I add the link to my signature?
A: Go to Account Tools Edit Settings Identity, and type : devtraditional-artists : (with the colons but without the spaces) into the box under "Comment Signature".

Q: How do I use the Groups widget on my front page?
A: Go to "Edit Page" on your front page (top right-hand corner) and select the Groups widget from the list.

We reserve the right to decline any membership and rejected applicant will receive a notification.



How do I submit art to the club?
Click the "Contribute Art" button on our front page, and select your submission to the current monthly gallery folder.  (Please make sure that you submit to the correct folder.)
You can also read the following tutorial for a visual guide on the submission process to a group: How to Submit to a Group

The submissions limit is 2 deviations per month.
Submissions will be open between the 21st and the 30th of every month, except in February will be on the 21st until the 28th.





Your submission will be approved as long as it meets all of the following requirements:

What is accepted into the Traditional-Artists Gallery?

Art submitted to our Gallery must be submitted to traditional art categories, e.g. paintings or drawings. We will also accept artisan crafts and mixed media - anything that's handmade.  Important Because of the sheer volume of work submitted to T-A on a weekly basis, the standard of artwork accepted into the gallery is held in a higher scrutiny than most clubs. We shall never, ever discriminate due to the level of skill of the artist - however, we will only take work that is presented only in the best possible way.

All submissions must be finished pieces. If you consider your art completed ones, NEVER entitle your works Sketches, WIPs, Studies, or the like that implies unfinished/incomplete works.

Tutorials must be submitted to Group Favorites -> Members' Tutorials. This will not affect your monthly submission slots.

Not accepted:
Work submitted to the wrong folder.
Wrongly oriented or improperly cropped image. See below for more details.
Image categorized under Photography, Literature or Digital Art.
Commercial work – We do not accept work displayed for commercial gain. More specifically:  work with a commercial remark in the title and displayed on the image itself is unacceptable. Buying and Selling terms can be added in artist’s comment.
Un-finished works; WIPs, Doodles, Sketches, Poor linework etc.
Pornographic, Racist, Hate or Fetish work.  See Mature Content below for more details.
Work that has not been created by your own hand or submission from the third party.
Work presented on lined or squared paper when it is not aesthetic to your artwork.
Poorly photographed or scanned work:  tints added by poor camera light; blurred photos; scanner burn; barely visible photos etc.
Cropped, zoomed image without a picture of the whole work displaying as the main part.
Photographs showcasing something that distracts the viewers from the artwork.
Plain text art.

Cropping
Please make sure your submission is showing only your artwork, we will NOT accept any submissions where:
Paper edges or binding rings are in view
Drawing materials are in view
Drawing surfaces and surroundings are in view, except Site Specific Art
Reference images are in view
Picture frames are in view, except those made by the artists
Artists who are not the art object themselves are in view

Digital editing
(1) You may only use a digital program to correct brightness and contrast to reinstate the original values if your camera/scanner has changed them.
(2) NO images with digitally clear/transparent backgrounds.
(3) You may add a simple digital mat/frame.
(4) You may add a watermark, logo or artwork title.
(5) NO digital enhancements will be accepted, no filters, no colours or digital textures and no digital brushes or text may be included in your traditional art submission.  
(6) You may add digital text only in a comic strip or storyboard that is 100% traditional art.

To further clarify on digital textures:
NOT ACCEPTABLE->   
ACCEPTABLE->


Clear backgrounds and digital transparency:
NOT ACCEPTABLE ->


Tips
How to photograph your art [link]
How to scan your art [link]
How to scan large format art [link]
How to clean your lineart [link]

Mature content is allowed as long as it is presented in a tasteful manner and has the appropriate mature filter applied if necessary.  The submission administrators will assess on an individual basis.  

Multi-panel artwork:
(1) Must be a polyptych (diptych, triptych, tetraptych, etc.).
(2) All images in each piece must follow all group submission rules.
(3) Before-and-after work and step-by-step art will not be accepted.
(4) Digital work to combine artworks must be limited and will be at the discretion of the admins as to whether it is acceptable or not.
(5) Each case will be assessed on an individual basis.  

Art Theft
Anyone found submitting other artists' work as their own will be banned and reported to dA and the original artist will be contacted and informed.

Fake Art
T-A will not tolerate work submitted that has clearly been manipulated and being passed off as traditional artwork.  If you submit fake art (defined below) we will ban you from the group and report you to dA as well as making all of our affiliates aware of the situation.
Photoshopped images being passed off as traditional work
Printed images with obvious scribbles on top being passed off as a traditional drawing.
Photoshopped drawings – your own or otherwise

Make it easier for us to get your work in the gallery more quickly, tell us what materials you have used!!

Admin staff looks closely at each and every deviation submitted before accepting to the gallery. If your submission does not follow all our group rule, it will be rejected from the gallery, and you will be notified about why. Denial by group admins is final. If you have any questions, please feel free to note a Sub Admin!



We realize that with such a large Group, there are going to be bugs that pop-up from time to time, so it is essential that you please use the relevant subjects on notes sent to the group. If you cannot join or submit, or have any questions, affiliate-related or other notes, you need to have appropriate subjects on your notes to get quick responses and avoid them getting mislaid!  

Hi Lovely Members! We're glad to see that our group becomes larger day by day. There's a soaring number of submissions in our gallery each week, and we try not to keep our art enthusiastic members waiting for our responses for so long. So we have to launch the new submission rules to clarify what is accepted/unaccepted in the main gallery. Please read the new guidelines carefully before you submit your work. Thank you!





You must be a Member to submit to the Gallery.
You have 2 submission slots per month.
Submissions will be open between the 21st and the 30th of every month, except in February will be on the 21st until the 28th.
Your submission will be approved as long as it meets all of the following requirements:

What is accepted into the Traditional-Artists Gallery?

Art submitted to our Gallery must be submitted to traditional art categories, e.g. paintings or drawings. We will also accept artisan crafts and mixed media - anything that's handmade.  Important Because of the sheer volume of work submitted to T-A on a weekly basis, the standard of artwork accepted into the gallery is held in a higher scrutiny than most clubs. We shall never, ever discriminate due to the level of skill of the artist - however, we will only take work that is presented only in the best possible way.

All submissions must be finished pieces. If you consider your art completed ones, NEVER entitle your works Sketches, WIPs, Studies, or the like that implies unfinished/incomplete works.

Tutorials must be submitted to Group Favorites -> Members' Tutorials. This will not affect your monthly submission slots.

Not accepted:
Work submitted to the wrong folder.
Wrongly oriented or improperly cropped image. See below for more details.
Image categorized under Photography, Literature or Digital Art.
Commercial work – We do not accept work displayed for commercial gain. More specifically:  work with a commercial remark in the title and displayed on the image itself is unacceptable. Buying and Selling terms can be added in artist’s comment.
Un-finished works; WIPs, Doodles, Sketches, Poor linework etc.
Pornographic, Racist, Hate or Fetish work.  See Mature Content below for more details.
Work that has not been created by your own hand or submission from the third party.
Work presented on lined or squared paper when it is not aesthetic to your artwork.
Poorly photographed or scanned work:  tints added by poor camera light; blurred photos; scanner burn; barely visible photos etc.
Cropped, zoomed image without a picture of the whole work displaying as the main part.
A series of art pieces put together in one deviation. See Multi-panel artwork below.
Photographs showcasing something that distracts the viewers from the artwork.
Plain text art.

Cropping
Please make sure your submission is showing only your artwork, we will NOT accept any submissions where:
Paper edges or binding rings are in view
Drawing materials are in view
Drawing surfaces and surroundings are in view, except Site Specific Art
Reference images are in view
Picture frames are in view, except those made by the artists
Artists who are not the art object themselves are in view

Digital editing
(1) You may only use a digital program to correct brightness and contrast to reinstate the original values if your camera/scanner has changed them.
(2) NO images with digitally clear/transparent backgrounds.
(3) You may add a simple digital mat/frame.
(4) You may add a watermark, artist's logo/name or artwork title.
(5) NO digital enhancements will be accepted, no filters, no colours or digital textures and no digital brushes or text may be included in your traditional art submission.  
(6) You may add digital text only in a comic strip or storyboard that is 100% traditional art.

To further clarify on digital textures:
<- NOT ACCEPTABLE
<- ACCEPTABLE


Clear backgrounds and digital transparency:
<- NOT ACCEPTABLE
<- NOT ACCEPTABLE


Tips
How to photograph your art [link]
How to scan your art [link]
How to scan large format art [link]
How to clean your lineart [link]

Mature content is allowed as long as it is presented in a tasteful manner and has the appropriate mature filter applied if necessary.  The submission administrators will assess on an individual basis.  

Multi-panel artwork:
(1) Must be a polyptych (diptych, triptych, tetraptych, etc.).
(2) All images in each piece must follow all group submission rules.
(3) Before-and-after work and step-by-step art will not be accepted.
(4) Digital work to combine artworks must be limited and will be at the discretion of the admins as to whether it is acceptable or not.
(5) Each case will be assessed on an individual basis.  

Art Theft
Anyone found submitting other artists' work as their own will be banned and reported to dA and the original artist will be contacted and informed.

Fake Art
T-A will not tolerate work submitted that has clearly been manipulated and being passed off as traditional artwork.  If you submit fake art (defined below) we will ban you from the group and report you to dA as well as making all of our affiliates aware of the situation.
Photoshopped images being passed off as traditional work
Printed images with obvious scribbles on top being passed off as a traditional drawing.
Photoshopped drawings – your own or otherwise

Make it easier for us to get your work in the gallery more quickly, tell us what materials you have used!!

Admin staff looks closely at each and every deviation submitted before accepting to the gallery. If your submission does not follow all our group rule, it will be rejected from the gallery, and you will be notified about why. Denial by group admins is final. If you have any questions, please feel free to note a Sub Admin!



We realize that with such a large Group, there are going to be bugs that pop-up from time to time, so it is essential that you please use the relevant subjects on notes sent to the group. If you cannot join or submit, or have any questions, affiliate-related or other notes, you need to have appropriate subjects on your notes to get quick responses and avoid them getting mislaid!  

HOW TO APPLY

If you would like to apply to any of these positions, in order to be considered, you MUST follow the guidelines below:

Send us a NOTE, with subject line "[Position Title you're interested in] Application; (all comments offering help will be appreciated, but will not officially be considered for any position)

If you're applying to more than one position, list your Top Preference in the subject line, and include the rest in list in the actual body of a note

Also, in the body of the note, include a short explanation as to why you think you'd be a good fit for the position

Include you hourly availability per week - in other words, be realistic and honest about how much time you can dedicate to T-A




Membership Moderators - 2 slots NOW OPEN!
Process, accept/reject membership applications based on group policies
Organize the back end and promotion of events
Answer questions, participate in all T-A aspects


Submission Moderators - 2 slots NOW OPEN!
Process, accept/reject submissions based on submission guidelines
Suggest features, answer questions, participate in all T-A aspects;


Critique Night Admin - 1 slot NOW OPEN!
Act as T-A's official CN Director
Organize and attend at least 1 Critique Night every month
Process, accept/reject submissions to Critique Wanted folder
Maintains the Critique Night Journal, and Critiqued by T-A favorites folder
Offer feedback to members who need it
Answer questions, participate in all T-A aspects


Affiliate Manager - 1 slot NOW OPEN!
Process accept/reject affiliation requests, add/drop affiliates based on activity
Organize the back end and promotion of events, gathers prizes for contests
Respond to any notes from said affiliates
Maintain the journals, promote their contests and feature the winners
Answer questions, participate in all T-A aspects


Critic Contributors - 10 slots STILL OPEN!
Act as T-A's official critics and attend at at least 1 Critique Night every two months
Offer feedback to members who need it


Art Reporters - 3 slots STILL OPEN!
[singular submissions will be accepted from all members]
Once per every 3 months, are required to submit an engaging and informative article on art: period, artist, style, event, etc.


If you have any question pertaining to these openings, or any new events they foreshadow, feel free to poke us! In addition, if this list inspires any other ideas for events and ways to make T-A a better place, we'll be glad to hear from you





_{In this section of the journal you will be able to see a list of T-A Staff members, and the descriptions to their position responsibilities. We hope this will prove a useful reference to both newcomers and anyone who has a question, but doesn't know which Admin to poke.}

T-A Founder

[Laura]
Our T-A Goddess - she's almighty!
Oversees all actions of other staff members, makes all the final decisions;
Prepares Best Of Features and Posts all the News Articles;
Communicates with present and potential Affiliates, provides contest updates and winning features;
Puts together Games and Birthday Features for club members;
Peeks in on every corner of T-A, answers questions, showers love on our members;
Inspires us all to make this a great place;


Membership/Contests Admin

[Catherine]
Accepts/Rejects membership applications based on decided guidelines;
Welcomes members to the club, answer questions;
Moderates Q&A sessions, hold voting rights;
Events and Happenings Direction
Birthdays Journal Management
Contest Organization- Brainstorms themes, organizes the back end and promotion of the event, gathers prizes for contests


Affiliates/Critique Night Admin

[Elve]
Critique Night Director
Moderates most Q&A sessions, compiles interviews, holds voting rights
Affiliates Interaction
Any Game related features, and membership tutorials


Submission Moderators

[Rina]
[Kevin]
[Kate]
Process, accept/reject submissions;
Clear out membership list for deactivated/banned members;
Suggest features, participate in all T-A aspects;
Answer questions, hold voting rights;


Art Reports and Articles Manager


Oversees Editors and contributors
Sets articule deadlines & reveiws pieces before posting
Answer questions, hold voting rights


Critique Night Director [CND]

[Elve]
Coordinates the organization for Critique Nights; communicates with critics and club to set the event's time;
Maintains the Critique Night Journal, Critique Wanted and Critiqued by T-A favorites folders;
Receives and Processes requests for critique;
Answers questions, holds voting rights;


Features Manager [FM]

[J. Leigh]
[Rina]
Browses accepted gallery works, suggests best to Featured Favorites Collection;
Maintains the BEST OF: Features journal on weekly and monthly basis;
Answers questions, holds voting rights;


Affiliates Manager


  a Moderator Level Contributor who is responsible for:
- going through affiliation requests, adding/dropping affiliates based on activity;
- reviewing any notes from said affiliates;
- maintaining the journals, promoting their contests and featuring the winners;


Coding/CSS Expert

[Sveta]
saves the day by putting her expertise to fixing Journal bugs, customizing profile modules for better usability, potentially creating CSS interfaces for the club;


Critic Contributors


Serve as T-A's official critics and try to be present at at least 1 critique night every two months;
Offer feedback to members who need it;
Hold voting rights on club features;


Art Reporters


Once per every 3 months, are required to submit an engaging and informative article on art: period, artist, style, event, etc. (2 news articles per month in total between the 8 reporters.)
Hold voting rights on club features;


Editors



  proofread/edit/revise any written submissions to club gallery and:
... If Q&A Session Interview: point out errors and encourage revision until perfection is reached;
... If Art Report: accept if mistakes are few and fixable quickly; reject if errors are many, and supervise revision until acceptable;
Holds voting rights on club features;


Birthday Page Manager



browses through comments left on the Birthdays Page and records the deviants' names, birth dates and such for future use;
updates and maintains the pertinent journal with features of work by T-A members who were born during the ongoing month.


  And our dear who's still around when we need her even though she can't be around as much as she'd like!  



Past T-A Staff
The following deviants have dedicated many hours of their time to T-A in the duration of the club's existence: we're endlessly appreciative and glad to have had these people on our team!

Critique Night is starting in half an hour! Come join us!
Attention please! Because of a big backlog the Critique Wanted folder is closed for the time being. It is starting to look better, but we still have way too many works in it to be able to allow new ones in, sorry.



If you want to receive an additional reminder that there will be a CN the day before it takes place, comment on this journal!




May's Critique Night is this week, see if you can make it!

Date:Saturday, May 5th
Time:4pm GMT
_{Use this Time Zone Converter to work out what time that is for you.}
Location: T-A Chatroom
Anything else? As usual, how long it takes depends on how many people are there; ask any questions you have in the comments or note the group or me, ~Elveanna; and remember that you can't submit anything this time!

See you there!


I will post the pieces from last time together with those that are going to get feedback now.








If you like to give people feedback on their work, you know a bit about art and would like to take on some responsibility, apply as Critic Contributor!

Here you can read how you can apply.






People who want feedback on a piece of art submit it as explained below.
In the actual Critique Night the work that is currently given feedback will be displayed as a thumbnail at the top of the chat window. Everyone present is given some time to think about it. If one wants to say something, they raise their hand by posting ^ and wait until the moderator calls on them. Then they post their feedback, preferably typed while waiting.
The feedback should be helpful and constructive and cover the good aspects as well as those the artist can improve on.
The moderator will call on people to give their feedback in the order they ^ed. If they're done, they type "finished", so people know they can move on.

Example (from 1st CN):
<Elveanna> [Moderator in this case] for everyone: piece xy is next
<Donguri7> ^
<BJ92-ESQUE> ^
<Elveanna> okay, Donguri7
<Donguri7> I love this one, the handling of the charcoal is amazing, especially in the rendering of the eyes - so subtle. I would say that the nose is too light, drawing too much attention away from the gentler parts of the work.
<Donguri7> Really the cheekbone closest to us should have a stronger higlight, and the nose less
<LeahJay> ^
<Donguri7> But I love the way you've treated the other lights, like on the collar
<Elveanna> ^
<WhisperingWolf> ^
<Donguri7> And how you've contrasted a light background to the dark side of the face, and vice versa
<Donguri7> *finished
<Elveanna> allright, BJ92-ESQUE's turn  (...)


Usually a piece gets feedback from about four people. In order to be fair we try to have about 20-30 minutes of time for every piece. If more people want to give feedback, they will be asked to do so directly at the work, if there are very few it might be put back to the Critique Wanted folder to get some more.

And some helpful chat basics:
If you enter a chatroom and see nothing - don't think it's empty and leave immediately. Your browser just won't know what as been chatted already, so it will seem blank, even if there are people present
To see who is online, look to the right. The grey colummn there (the frame of the overall chat window) lists all the people present - if there is only your name, then you are alone.
Please give people some time to respond - logging on and off in split seconds makes it hard to greet you. Especially when people are typing feedback it might look very quiet and empty, but a friendly "hello" is almost always answered within one or two minutes.
If you want to talk someone explicitly, you can "tab" them: type the first letters of the user's name, (e.g. El for Elveanna), then press tab - and the browser will complete the name. If you then post what you said, it will be highlighted in the recipient's window. Very helpful if there are many people talking simultaneously


But really, the best way to find out how a CN works and what it is like is to participate! Just pop in and take a look, we're all really friendly!





Attention! The Critique Wanted folder is currently closed.


A folder has been opened in favorites: "Critique Wanted" - to which anyone at any time is able to submit. You can submit as many pieces as you like, but in a Critique Night only one will get feedback!
Please note: We only accept traditional work!
Works from said folder will be selected in the order they were submitted to get feedback during Critique Nights;
Works that received critique from TA will be moved to the favorites folder "Critiqued by TA".

There will be about 10 Critique Night slots. In order to have one of these secure please not only submit your work to the folder, but also write the group a Note with the title "Critique Wanted" or something similar and a link to your work. Slots will be filled by notes first, then the rest will be selected from the folder.

Until now pieces directly submitted at the Critiqe Night usually recieved feedback as well. Be aware that with the opening of the "Critique Wanted" folder we will probably have enough pieces for a whole CN - so if you just submit at the Critique Night, you might have to wait till the next one!
If you want to be sure to get feedback, submit your work officially to the folder.


Please note:
The folder is open to all members. If you have some time and feel like it - go and give some feedback, it's rewarding for both sides!





Materialism by ~Nanakonomidori: [link]

DIY Implant by *Shisho2k: [link]

MANA by *BanMoon: [link]

this is the craziest thing by ~ancira: [link]

Mel by ~CarlooSolrac: [link]

GLEE - Chord Overstreet by ~verkoka: [link]