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Hello everyone!
I am a newbie here, and in vectors, and I was hoping for some critique so I can get better at this...
Sorry if my english is bad, and thanks for your comments

These are vectors that have been accepted from fotolia and dreamstime but rejected from IS. Do you think their problem is just commercial or is there some other problems too?

"We 're sorry but this artwork is not what we are currently looking for in terms of composition, color usage, use of line and shape, concept, detail and/or file complexity."

Thank you!

http://img560.imageshack.us/f/cocktails.jpg/
http://img690.imageshack.us/f/donkeyrh.jpg/
http://img3.imageshack.us/f/fairyq.jpg/

I like the fairy best too. I would change the, I don't know what to call this, the "magic power lines" that surround the fairy. Just do away with them, and in my opinion, it would vastly improve the illustration. The wings could be enhanced a bit like cthoman said. 

I'm not an illustrator, but my 2 cents is straighten the perspective on the drinks. They are close, so either make them the same or vastly different.

I think you could have gotten these in easy a couple of years ago on istock. definitely the fairy. These days the standards to get in are very high at istock. The best advice i can give you is to draw every day and keep learning/observing if you really want to get into istock. A good stock image has many uses.

Im sorry if that sounded harsh but thats the reality there. The problem really isnt with your artwork, its oversupply of really talented contributors. I see their portfolios and is amazed at their work. But a lot of the talented artists dont really do well either. They dont produce sellable stock. You can make all the pretty pictures in the world but ultimately, you want to profit from your work.

The cocktails perspective is not right with each other. why did you choose this perspective in the first place? As a designer, why would they download this image of yours as opposed to a straight on shot w a 3/4 view. if 100 designers were looking for cocktail drinks they needed to download, very few would need it at this awkward angle.

I like the fairy the best and i think its your strong point but im not a big fan of her straight arms. u did a nice job with her legs and i wished you would have bent her arms to make her flow more than so stiff. Im not a big fan of the ambiguous plant bgs and wished you really concentrated on those. Why didnt you make the snow go all over you image instead of just arounfd the fairy? Also, who will be buying this image? If you dont know, that is a problem. These are all things you will learn as you progress as an artist so i say keep drawing! Sorry for such an honest critique.

Im not even gonna talk about the donkey =D

Do yourself a favor and don't take the IS rejections or their 'reasons' seriously.

I have been gold at IS for a couple years (unless I have been demoted in the recent changes, I really haven't checked to see).  IS used to reject almost all my vectors which sold well at all other sites, which is why I only made it to gold. But IS doesn't reject them anymore because I stopped submitting to IS. It's time wasted which could be better spent doing something else.

Best of luck to you if you continue submitting to IS, but don't take their rejections to heart. IS reviewers favor exclusives almost exclusively, and you probably have as good an idea of what a good commercial microstock image does as the IS reviewers do.