WoW Artwork.Follow

Hey, I'm new here so I'm not sure...

Someone dropped the rating on this post but didn't comment or anything.. I couldn't find anything in the forum guidelines that prohibited me posting my website. Was I wrong? If so I'll delete my post immediately..

Edited, May 22nd 2011 6:00am by vivielle

We are all happy that you have a passion to make art about World of Warcraft. The problem is, as Aethien put it, people will come to this site, advertise for their website, then bugger off without contributing. If you truly are the "WoW enthusiast" that you say you are respond to posts for a while. Get your post count up and aim for sage-ish level. At that point we would probably* welcome the opportunity to look at your art. If you choose to stay with your route though you can follow Aethien's advice and **** off.

*while I cannot speak for everyone here, most of us would at least give you the benefit of the doubt and give constructive criticism about your art.

Don't take it to heart when people tell you to sod off. They're just being meanies

We consider this forum a database of information about the game. Advertisements are frowned upon, mostly because they don't give the forum anything in return.

Of course, if you weren't trying to sell anything, I don't see the harm in it.

It was a gallery of artwork.. I've been doing commissioned artwork for years and have done some art for people I met through WoW and other mmorpgs. A friend suggested I get to know more people in forums, plus I like to hear feedback on artwork regardless. I went about it the wrong way.

Sorry, again. I didn't realize it was such a faux pas.

As an aside, I did used to come to Allakhazam alot for some other games back in the day.. It hadn't occurred to me til now that as it's more geared towards being a wealth of information - which it has been very helpful to me for such - it might not be so much geared toward arty type stuff.

And hey, I was proactive about finding out if my post was okay or not because I care, right? And I killed it immediately when I got a reply. Some points for that, Aethien?

Anyway! Sorry.

Edited, May 22nd 2011 8:52am by vivielle

Your friend totally pranked you.

I believe we had someone else "advertise" his or her own artwork (sculptures, was it?) site a while back, and as far as I can remember, we let the link stay because the art was good.

You could always send a private message to an admin and check with them. I really wouldn't mind you linking to your site, even if it was mainly to advertise, given that you've stayed around to apologize, defend your position and all in excellent English. It's a nice breath of fresh air from the 'hai gusy plz check my site kthx by' one-post wonders that drop by.

Besides, I'm getting curious now.

Edited, May 22nd 2011 3:26pm by Mazra

You'd be surprised what my mind can conjure up, Aeth.

I'd like that.

And I'm pretty sure you could post that here as well, since without price tags, it would be more of an "open for reviews" kind of thing. People just get a little antsy when the posts come off as pure advertisement.

Also, if you want to stick around, tell us more about you. What server do you play on? What class do you play? Are you a girl? Do you have pictures? Which alcoholic beverage would I need to get you drunk on?

You know, the standard stuff.

Edited, May 22nd 2011 3:56pm by Mazra

Curse my drunken eyes, I can't for the life of me see what I need to do to get pics! I'm mixing up a mean gin & tonic right now, though.

Also, signature images aren't supported. We have some built-in signatures, if they still work, but you can't add images yourself in the signature.

Speak for yourself, Moz!

I'm very important.

@Maz:

Ah hah.. Couldn't post an img either, maybe I'm doing it wrong or it's restricted.. Or change/upload an avatar? Agh! XD

@Mozared:

I think the main issue was that my website with the artwork had pricing for commissions on it, since I make part of my living off of art in a myriad of ways (Storyboards, concept art, illustration, animation, etc). Do I want to get commissions? Sure. From here? Doesn't have to be, wasn't expecting anything. Do I want to share some WoW art with the community and get feedback and maybe have others share their's? Of course! That's the goal.. Was that goal communicated effectively? No.. I wasn't thinking at all.

The secondary issue being that since I was brand new to the forums, posting a link wasn't the smartest way to break the ice. If I'd gone about this in a different way I'm sure it would've turned out better.

Live and learn. I'll see about throwing the artwork on an alternate site with no mention of commissions, and then re-post in the future if people are interested..

@Criminy:

No worries, I understand. Thanks for the welcome. :D Now that I'm becoming a bit more acquainted with the forum, it is nice to see it's full of English the way it was meant to be. Somewhat rare on the high seas of the internet..

Specifically that you did so in your first post.
Making your first post in a community with a post saying "hay guys I want to share art <link to website selling art>" is pretty much the best way to make yourself look like you're just here for free advertising.