Quote from: kaycee on January 15, 2009, 16:06

Yes sounds very familiar.
I'm still trying to get my illustrations approved third time now.
They say what they want in the application but don't accept what they want.
I will try one more time and if they don't want my vectors  so I'll let it be enough stock agencies likes my stuff.

Your photos are nice. Also, I am just being honest but your vectors will never get into IS!

It looks like you are an accountant who is trying too hard to do vectors just for money. Stick with the photos. You might get annoyed with my post but deep inside you know I am right and I am saving you a lot of time..

Not for the money just having fun to draw (as you know already)

Quote from: kaycee on January 19, 2009, 10:41

Yes of course I would like that I�m not ashamed to get some good advice. I like to draw on paper or with the PC it doesn�t matter as long as I�m busy with my hobbie that includes also photography. 

Ok then. It is actually not different doing it on a pc or on paper if you do it the right way.

1- If you don't already have it, buy a graphic tablet. You have to have the feeling of a pencil. Wacom bamboo series are fine. A6 tablet is adequate and cheap.
2- Draw on paper just like you are doing traditionally. Then scan the paper sketch and drag it to an open Illustrator file. Reduce the opacity of the scan and lock that layer. Add a new layer and just trace your sketch with illustrator tools.
3- You can trace photos too, as long as they belong to you. Remember IS is very strict about copyrights. Only trace your own sketches and photos.

It is vital that you sketch anything on paper first then draw over the scanned file in illustrator. That is the way, to get high quality results. That is why having illustrator is no enough because sketchin is still the heart of all good vectors.

Things done with automatic rotate and trace tools are so obviously simple. And will never get into IS.

If you weren't already doing them the way I explained above, your work is actually ok taking into account it has been done the wrong way.

Have done what you mention (have no wacom but a Genius)
But I missing is the effects you now like a real pencil, softness, hardness, greys ,blacks, smudge with the finger etc.........
I know you could this also in illustrator but it�s hard to work easy with the progam and getting the same effects.
So I decided to  get a whole different style with vectors-illustrations .
But if you have more advice please let me know.If you want you could check my SS account (see my profile) over there I have some recent vectors I made, I know they are simple but feel free to judge my work.......      

Quote from: kaycee on January 19, 2009, 01:22

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I like to draw for almost 25 years too, and how I do it it's up to me.
I tried digital illustrations/vectors but it's way different than hand drawing you can't compare those two things it's
way different...............................................and I like both

I said everybody knows it deep inside. If you really believe you are not a wannabe then why do you get offended. I don't want to offend anyone, It is just my opinion. If you don't agree, you smile and forget about it..

I�m not offended .I just pointing out that hand drawing and vector-illustations are way different from each other you can�t compare it with each other.................So if you like me hand draw for 25 years or more it doesn�t mean right away that your also able to do vectors-illustration the same as hand draw . You might have the same ideas but to put it to paper or PC is different at least for me......

LOL!
How about if each of us send them 100 files of the worst garbage....  Just to give them something that really do decerve to be rejected LOL   

... That should keep them busy for quite a while...
 

I'm in ....................LOL  ...............nice thought....................got a lot of garbage................

I thought give it a try so I send them 15 pictures  only 2 got accepted.
Don't know why the rest got rejected .......
My findings on the site I like the style and kind of pictures they have you now artistic way but some are worse very worse.
blown highlights,under expo,over expo,very tight crob,purple fringing .
Normaly I through them in my recycle bin.
See what happens in the future...........................

Yes indeed thanks Leaf,

This is a warnig to all of us this is serious business and it could happen to anybody and everyone and it's not nice to make fun of it.

Also very impressed after almost 6 months still nothing for me....
So congratsssssss

finaly CS accepted some illustrations  (only my new once got accepted my older illustrations are still in the pending area STRANGE )

No problem here. This morning I asked for closing my account and for my payout.
In the next few hours my pictures were gone in my account,my login gone and already have my payout message from paypal.
The only thing is the little tumbs are still visible but it always take time to remove those things.
So thanks Zymmetrical for the quick respons to my request. 

He is also active on dreamstime

Yahoo yesterday 3 sales and the days before also some sales .
I don't know what they did . I hope it keeps going on in the future

Hi Keith,

Good point your making.
It is not my style to blame you for something. But people should be aware that this could happen and that they report this so you could fix this.
I never noticed this if I don't go check my port once in a while.
Sorry for the misunderstanding of the situation.
BTW I still like your quick respons and repair on the site and hopefully it never will occur again