New Posting Guidelines

Our goal at the #BiowareFanClub is to present the best of what's on DeviantArt by fans, for fans. Though we welcome submissions from all members, no matter your skill or background, as more and more members join up and submit, it's become clear that we need to set standardized guidelines for the art categories.

Starting this week, the Admins will be enforcing the art guidelines as follow:

1) The BioWare Fan Club will only accept artwork fully done by you, digitally or traditionally. You CAN use bases, photo-manipulations, 3D art etc. However, straight screenshots, character sheets, written descriptions, etc. will be turned down. (It is okay to have stats and descriptions accompanying an artwork, it's just that the text cannot be the primary submission.)

2) Only finished, polished artwork should be submitted to the group gallery. We would like to keep the official gallery folders on a certain level of completion of work, so all scraps, rough sketches, WIPs etc will be moved to the "Sketches" folder. Full finished sketches, line arts or black and white artwork with high quality are acceptable as gallery submissions.

If you are ever in doubt as to the acceptability of a piece of fan work, You can ping the administrators, or submit it and see what the response is.

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Checklist for Art:

o Is the work original? (Not a screenshot, trace, or superficial image manip.)
o Is the line art polished (vs rough or sketchy)?
o Is it a complete? (vs W.I.P.)?
o Is the sketch shaded and polished?
o Is the line art inked?
o Is the art colored?
o Is the coloring consistent?
o Is the photo manipulation superficial (simplistic filtering, color change)?
o Is the photo manipulation polished (no obvious cuts, rough color changes, etc.)
o Is the digital art textured and well-rendered?

Mature subject matter should be properly categorized by DeviantArt standards. This includes:

o nudity
o excessive gore
o explicit sex, yaoi, or yuri

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Fanfiction

Fanfiction, though accepted, is not the primary focus of this Group. We ask that all work be complete and original (small song or poems for snippets from other sources are okay if you cite it, but this can't be the bulk of the writing). For ease of access, we ask that you provide the following at the top of your fanfics so that readers can easily preview the content:

Title:
Author:
Game:
characters/pairing
Disclaimer


Checklist for Fiction:

o Is the writing safe for work? (E.g. not beyond PG-13 for sexually or violently explicit material?)
o Is the work in English?
o Is the work set in a BioWare universe?
o Does the work feature BioWare characters?

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The new guidelines are not meant to discourage submissions. Rather, the Admins here have made a few assumptions: you joined the BioWare Fan Club to see awesome art (and fiction), make new friends, and talk about BioWare games with them. To this end, we'd like to make it as easy as possible to see the good stuff, and still preserve an area for everything fannish ever produced.

In the next few days, the Admins will be sorting through the galleries to bring the current deviations into compliance with the guideline standards. Most deviations will remain more or less the same, but we will be pulling obvious sketches and unfinished works from the full gallery folders and moving them to the "sketches" folder instead.

Other Good Stuff

How to Submit: To submit existing deviantions, please check out our Existing Deviations tutorial:
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