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Not enough Traditional art?

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Fellas, i have noticed a severe lack of traditional art on this website and how a lot of it just doesn't get approved, i do realize how a lot of it can seem a lil "bland" compared to some super detailed, colored digital art, but i feel like we oughta support and push our traditional art bros a lil more. What's your stance on this topic, do you enjoy seeing some good ol' art on paper and if you do, do you feel like there is enough of it on here?
Greetings, have a wonderful rest of the day and sorry if this topic has come up before

If you'd like more traditional art on the site, then be the change you want to see and upload more.

Speaking as an approver, I have no bias against traditional art and upload some myself from time to time. The quality of a post is more important than its medium.

The main issue of traditional art is that often the colors are muted due to bad photography, which makes it look pretty uninteresting, but it still gets regularly approved like any other art if the content being depicted is good.

That said, several years ago there were some periods of low approval activity, so if you see old uploaded traditional media that you think should be active but are deleted feel free to appeal them.

I've been uploading a lot of Touhou project's traditional art lately, especially from the artists maa_(forsythia1729), beluo77 and d-m_(dii_emu)
although I have my reasons for being cautious about uploading such images.
especially with grayscale/monochrome images, sometimes they approve, sometimes they don't, reason, I don't know, I'd like to think that the unapproved images were really low quality, but I often doubt it, I mean, I'm aware that taking the wrong picture can ruin a good traditional drawing, but sometimes I feel that it is criticized too harshly.
it's as if you are held to such a high standard that sometimes it's not worth it, every imperfection subtracts points, whether it's a small wrinkle in the paper, a shadow, a slant when taking a photo or even a pencil on the edge. you know, a lot of things to consider, very difficult.
so if you are planning to upload traditional style images, I recommend that they be colored, don't worry if the colors are a little muffed, if the image is colored it has a much better chance of being approved, a grayscale traditional style drawing I feel it is taken as a simple sketch.
or maybe I am being too bland and i uploading low quality images.
that's what I can say from my own experience.

69gunslinger69 said:

Its definitely just not getting approved as often as digital art, be it because of hard judgements, or just the fact that poppy digital art is visually more stimulating, which i can understand, but it still is a shame

I mean, there's only 56k traditional media posts, only 3.4k of which is deleted. Digital art makes up the other 5mil+ posts. I really don't think it's an approval problem.

69gunslinger69 said:

Its definitely just not getting approved as often as digital art, be it because of hard judgements, or just the fact that poppy digital art is visually more stimulating, which i can understand, but it still is a shame

Post count for traditional_media: 56565
Post count for traditional_media status:deleted: 3409
Post count for traditional_media approver:any -status:deleted: 21244
Post count for moderated traditional media posts: 24653
Deletion rate for all traditional_media posts: 6.0 %
Deletion rate for moderated traditional_media posts: 13.8 %

Post count for -traditional_media: 5256071
Post count for -traditional_media status:deleted: 295020
Post count for -traditional_media approver:any -status:deleted: 1751315
Post count for moderated posts not tagged traditional_media: 2046335
Deletion rate for all posts not tagged traditional_media: 5.6%
Deletion rate for moderated posts not tagged traditional_media: 14.4 %

It may seem to you that traditional media art is not getting approved as much as digital art, but that’s actually not the case. The deletion rate of all traditional media art is only slightly higher than the deletion rate of non-traditional media. If we exclude unmoderated posts from that, the deletion rate of moderated traditional media posts is actually slightly lower than that of non-traditional media art.

tl;dr: Traditional media art is actually getting approved a bit more often (86.2 %) than non-traditional media art (85.6 %).

Traditional media is just uncommon for many reasons. The main "issues" is that digital art is more accessible, easier to upload online, and many traditional artists probably don't know about pixiv/twitter or have no desire to share their artworks.

As Kittey said, the problem isn't the approvers or the uploaders, it's just uncommon.

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