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Public reviews, in a manner of speaking.

This group is created, in part, to open up the review process. If you are unsure about a piece before you apply with a portfolio, or a piece from a declined one, post it here. At least one of our reviewers will look it over and explain if it is meets our standards or not. If not, they will give the reasons why and may provide you with a redline to illustrate their points.

The goal here is not to choose to only accept or not, but to help improve and push our art forward. We want to see artists on ArtSpots, sometimes it not just only practicing and refining, but knowing where to do so as well.

A couple rules:

- Do not post your entire prospective portfolio, but pick one piece to be looked over.
- Please, no posting more than one a week, just to help keep the volume at a resonable level.
- By posting a piece here, you are allowing a reviewer to redline it to help illustrate a point.
- [Edit 1/9/07] Only reviewers of ArtSpots can make initial critiques in this group. Other members may chime in and agree, disagree, or add to a reviewers comments, but they may not make their own reviews out of the blue. Such replies will be deleted without any notification.
- While asking questions or disagreeing about a redline or review to help understand the points made is fine, getting argumentative is not. We are all in this together and trying to help each other out.

Hopefully that is enough to get this started! As always, I am open to questions and the rules may be changed as people bring up good points and such.

I just realized that the forum description suggests that ONLY reviewers are expected to post here. Should other users refrain from putting in their two cents?

Thanks seurat for creating this group. I have resigned from redlining but I'm sure this will be able to help and guide others. Thank you for the wonderful archive and leadership.

Xazy said: I just realized that the forum description suggests that ONLY reviewers are expected to post here. Should other users refrain from putting in their two cents?

Yeah, I'm a little confused on this too. I hope that everyone is allowed to add criticism; otherwise, it would really be a waste of space if the person had to post their topic in both this subsection and the critique one in order to let everybody help with it.

Xazy said: I just realized that the forum description suggests that ONLY reviewers are expected to post here. Should other users refrain from putting in their two cents?

I do not mind if other users make helpful suggestions. But even so, only reviewers can say for sure whether a piece is good for a portfolio or not.

Amarok said:Yeah, I'm a little confused on this too. I hope that everyone is allowed to add criticism; otherwise, it would really be a waste of space if the person had to post their topic in both this subsection and the critique one in order to let everybody help with it.

As I told Xazy, I do not mind if other people offer their critique. But anyone who posts something to be critiqued must realize that a reviewer's assessment is what takes priority. If someone says, for example, that something looks fine, but a reviewer says that it would not be good for a portfolio piece, then it would be highly advisable not to put it into a portfolio. :)

If it gets too confusing for those asking advice, then I may change the rules. Reviewers also look at the regular critique forums too, and the idea is someone posts a piece on this group to hear specifically from the reviewers. For now though, I do not see a problem. Thanks for bringing it up.