PA:AC Deviant Art Group. Give up some input, Please!

Iruka

The PA:AC Deviant Art Group

***If you want to be in the group and you are a Regular to semi-regular poster, Please PM me your user Name!***
My hope is to get everyone in here with 1-2 works in the featured gallery and then a slightly extended amount in the sub galleries. Basically a nice grab bag representation of the forum. I recommend putting your favorite or most popular deviation into featured

Resources!
The group has a great ability to have a collective of favorites. Since we often refer people to DA for references, We can save people from having to start their search from scratch. With that goal in mind, I ask that people (like me) who will collect kinda useful things to use their better judgment, and only add good to stellar stuff to the favorites.

-Note: Human anatomy portions are most likely NSFW, but if you are logged out of DA, these works are automatically covered with a warning.
Human Anatomy/Photo Refs
-Male Poses
-Male Portraits
-Female Poses
-Female Portraits
-Hands and Feet
-Skulls and Skeletons

Animal Anatomy/ Photo Refs
-Felines
-Canines
-Skulls and Skeletons


Tutorials

Downloadable Resources
-Textures
-Photoshop Stuff
-Patterns and Stencils

Logos!
Submitting something to a group will put a big ol PA-Artist corner next to the deviation and your name. The normal one is the one that will appear next to your name on DA. Here are the logos, if you'd like to put them in your signature. If you'd Like to modify them, or add the logo to your own sig, download the PS template.

The normal Ones:



By tams Request:



The Template
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/Sigtemplate.psd

Help!

>>To get in the group:
1- Check to see if I sent you an invite on your DA account.
2- If you didn't get an invite PM me your DA account name, and I'll send you an invite.
3- In your message center there should be an invite, Click YES:

>>to submit to the gallery
1- click gallery

2-Click a subcategory and then click submit to folder on the top right.

Tam

My vote is for the sandwich

you can't go wrong with sandwiches

Godfather

Oh come on Tam.

This is supposed to represent the AC; class it up a bit.



Anything but the sandwich.

Tam

don't listen to godfather he has terrible taste

the sandwich all the way

Godfather

Your stupid and dumb


No sandwich!

Tam

things that are better than godfather:

1. sandwiches
2. hitler
3. everything else

Flay

If you kids don't shut up right now, I will turn this car around, and there will be no Disneyland for anyone!

Tam

keep out of this, twiggy

Flay

That's it!

Tam

car's walkin on some funky ass stilts

Flay

Maybe if we didn't have to put you kids through college we wouldn't have to drive around in a bloody Stilt car!

You're going to get such a beating when we get home.

Loomdun

I vote sandwich

also flay is apparently on crack cocaine

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

My vote goes to this one. I don't even think it needs any cleaning up or anything.

Flay

Mars Elliot wrote: »

My vote goes to this one. I don't even think it needs any cleaning up or anything.

Actually yeah, now that I look at it, morphing the circle behind the original PA logo to become a pallet is a pretty clever idea. I like it, but I do think it needs some touching up.

Veritas

Mars Elliot wrote: »

My vote goes to this one. I don't even think it needs any cleaning up or anything.

Ditto for this one, cleaned up or as is either would work.

rts

I too liked the sandwich...though I won't be participating and don't deserve a vote vote vote vote.

Guy Bell

I also will not be participating but if I was I would go for the dead pac-man eating dingleberries with a pencil thru his head on the lower left.

Iruka

pshhh, you all should just join. Even too add just one piece to gallery.

Ikage

I was going to pick sandwich since sandwiches are delicious and everyone here is pretty delicious themselves hu hu hu.


But from a design aspect putting a painters palette on this thing would be just aces.

NibCrom

Has anyone ever had any problems with DeviantArt's policy on art property or whatever? I'm pretty sure DA wouldn't steal our art, I'm just wondering if anyone had bothered to interpret their policy. Thanks in advance for putting me at ease.

Iruka

We talked about it in the chat thread a bit, DA claims the right to display your art on the site (so you can have a gallery) and then legally excuses themselves from having to protect you should any random internet user choose to steal your art (basically, they wont sick their lawyers on every lowlife, the internets a wasteland). I personally have never heard of or seen DA use someones art without their permission, and cant really see why they would as that would destroy the websites credibility.

I understand people being worried about it. but I think the only people who need to concern themselves about privacy on DA are people doing popular generic anime, posting photos at a size thats large enough to want to manipulate it, and art that can easily be used as tattoos or teeshirts. Even then, issues are with random people and not DA itself, and you run a bit of a risk with gaining more eyes on your work.

Anyways, I guess the painter palette one is the fave, so after finals I'll work with that a bit.

bombardier

DMAC has had people take some of his drawings and claim them as their own in their DA pages, but DA is pretty cool about putting a stop to that if you report them. If you post anything on the internet, it's liable to get stolen or used without permission. Your best defense of this would be to only post screen resolution works publically.

Orikaeshigitae

Pm sent.

mully

DMAC has had people take some of his drawings and claim them as their own in their DA pages, but DA is pretty cool about putting a stop to that if you report them. If you post anything on the internet, it's liable to get stolen or used without permission. Your best defense of this would be to only post screen resolution works publically.

Iruka

Mully and bombsy are merging into one entity :shock:

melting_doll

wtfs

Orikaeshigitae

Iruka wrote: »

Mully and bombsy are merging into one entity :shock:

Maybe it's a Vancouver thing.

NibCrom

Thanks guys. I wasn't worried about lowlifes stealing my art so much as I was worried about DA claiming rights to the art cause it's on their site or whatever. I heard MySpace had some weird policy about this, but I never bothered looking into it.

I'll set up an account this week.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

NibCrom wrote: »

Has anyone ever had any problems with DeviantArt's policy on art property or whatever? I'm pretty sure DA wouldn't steal our art, I'm just wondering if anyone had bothered to interpret their policy. Thanks in advance for putting me at ease.

As Iruka said, we had a small discussion on this in the Chat thread a bit ago. The exact portion of their EULA is this:

16. Copyright in Your Content

deviantART does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service, you grant to deviantART a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Please note that when you upload Content, third parties will be able to copy, distribute and display your Content using readily available tools on their computers for this purpose although other than by linking to your Content on deviantART any use by a third party of your Content could violate paragraph 4 of these Terms and Conditions unless the third party receives permission from you by license.

While the portion in yellow has always been my main concern--mostly because of how dubious the wording is--the gist of it keeps them in the legal clear in regards to running a website that hosts other people's artwork. Most of the what's being described directly relates to how images are populated (and propagated) on their website.

The only one that's always left me scratching my head a little is "prepare derivative works based on" because I can't, off the top of my head, think of what that really means in terms of the day-to-day running of the site.

The stuff in Silver is your basic "Don't blame us for what shitheads on the internet will do." Or, as has been pointed out, anytime you upload anything to the internet, you run the risk of some shitheal stealing it. Or to put it another way...

Vancouver HiveMind wrote:

DMAC has had people take some of his drawings and claim them as their own in their DA pages, but DA is pretty cool about putting a stop to that if you report them. If you post anything on the internet, it's liable to get stolen or used without permission. Your best defense of this would be to only post screen resolution works publically.

MKR

It's standard lawyer speak that lets them display your work in your gallery. I think even the PA forums show it when you sign up.

edit: @NibCrom

Iruka

Mars Elliot wrote: »

While the portion in yellow has always been my main concern--mostly because of how dubious the wording is--the gist of it keeps them in the legal clear in regards to running a website that hosts other people's artwork. Most of the what's being described directly relates to how images are populated (and propagated) on their website.

The only one that's always left me scratching my head a little is "prepare derivative works based on" because I can't, off the top of my head, think of what that really means in terms of the day-to-day running of the site.

I'm guessing that covers thumbnails, I think if you do emoticons DA will occasionally add them to the general thing, and prints, because i don't think there is a seperate agreement when you set up a print account (may be wrong about that). They do, technically have the right to print your work for promotional use, Ive never actually seen DA publish anything though.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Yeah, my school has a similar agreement and it's mostly utilized for what you just said--promotional material. I think you are absolutely right, though, when you say it'd be their death knell if they ever decided wanton abuse of that policy was the way to go.

Orikaeshigitae

Is there a way to add a deviation I've already put into my gallery, to the AC art group?

Tam

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

Is there a way to add a deviation I've already put into my gallery, to the AC art group?

yep

PA-ArtistCorner> Gallery> Submit to this Gallery> Contribute existing deviation

Orikaeshigitae

Cool, thanks Tam.

Sorry in advance if I misfile it. I'm new to DA.

Tam

no prob, Orik

PeterAndCompany

I still say they should add the "Contribute Existing Deviation" button to the front page of the group. That is the only really confusing part of the whole process, since its hidden in a really awkward place.

Yeah, everyone should totally sign up for this. My submissions inbox on DA has been flooded with epic awesomeness over the past couple days.

NibCrom

Yay! I joined!

Iruka

Im back at this:

Mocked up as a stamp:


I made it all transparent just to remember that Gifs cant to soft edges, so I guess I have to make it vector or go over it with the pencil tool for this to work right (I dont do vectors sooooooo) but I think it came out okay?

Godfather

I like it! Much more respectable than a sandwich!

Orikaeshigitae

nice work, iruka!