Author Topic: Vector Critique Please (Read 4626 times)

xenokratis · « **on:** February 04, 2011, 16:31 »

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!

newbielink:http://img560.imageshack.us/f/cocktails.jpg/ [nonactive]
newbielink:http://img690.imageshack.us/f/donkeyrh.jpg/ [nonactive]
newbielink:http://img3.imageshack.us/f/fairyq.jpg/ [nonactive]

cthoman · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2011, 18:01 »

I like the fairy. How often do I say that?

Anyway... I might work on the wings for the fairy though. They could be more detailed or transparent.

As far as the other two, I think they could use some work or just shelved. The donkey seems kind of pieced together from various elements. The sky doesn't necessarily match the donkey or the grass. It just looks collaged together. The drinks seems a little mechanical and not much interest to them. I'd work on more cartoon type stuff like the fairy. That seems to be the stronger style of the three.

Whiz · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2011, 18:11 »

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.

xenokratis · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2011, 18:34 »

Thank you so much for your responses guys!

The truth is that cartoon type stuff is the thing that i like working on the most. I didnt use any transparency or gradient, cause in my early works, such things were making the size of my files huge! And some sites require the files to be less than 2mb (e.g. Fotolia)
"The drinks" was a try to produce more commercial images than cartoon type images, or vectorized sketches.
The donkey is going to the trash can

you are right.

I am gonna work on the Fairy with some transparency looking methods, and erase the lines, like u said. I gonna make a try on the drinks too (maybe more drinks like a library? or more elements in them so they look more interesting?), and I will post the changes for your opinions.

Thanks Again!

Blufish · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2011, 19:04 »

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.

xenokratis · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2011, 13:11 »

Ok...
What do you think now? I have removed the magic lines, and made some wings with more detail and transparency.
I also gave some color on the white background circles.
Is it ready to be resubmitted?
Thnx

newbielink:http://img227.imageshack.us/f/fairypathswings.jpg/ [nonactive]

VB inc · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2011, 15:00 »

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

xenokratis · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2011, 17:22 »

Vb thank you very much for your critique. I always thought that a harsh critique is even more valueable than just critique.

Well for the drinks, I thought that a different perspective to each drink, (i wanted to be much more but I got bored

), would be more playful than a clear orthographic or front view of them. With many drinks i wanted the image to be sth like a library for bars for example, so they could take each one of the cocktails and place them where they want in their catalog. (Sorry for my bad english... Also sorry if my points are newbie-points, but I am a newbie in all this and I want to learn

)

For the Fairy your points are really good. I imagine it and it is much better with more bendy hands, and bubbles just around her, so I am going to try it.

As far as if i want to get in IS.. I dont expect to earn a fortune through this, not even make a living some day. But I think that it is a good way to make a nice portfolio, which I could use to my clients too (I work as a graphic artist in very small projects for cafe's, hairdressers etc). Also it is fun!

I really hope some day to have a huge and strong portfolio so I work serious on this, on no-internet businesses.
Thanks again! If i repost my fixed images i really want to hear your critique again

michaeldb · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2011, 17:23 »

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.

VB inc · « **Reply #9 on:** February 09, 2011, 17:53 »

Quote from: xenokratis on February 09, 2011, 17:22

I dont expect to earn a fortune through this, not even make a living some day. But I think that it is a good way to make a nice portfolio, which I could use to my clients too (I work as a graphic artist in very small projects for cafe's, hairdressers etc).

Thats a very good point. I create files i know i wont sell but would likely attract clients and i have gotten many clients from istock alone so that is definitely good exposure.

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