Art of Erotic Visions.

About This Group

Warning: The selection in this group is based on the personal taste of the moderator. Criteria are: technical qualities and artistic vision.
A group is used to get attention to your portfolio, do not send all your work at once, by sending regular 1 work, you keep the attention.
Read the guidelines!
This group is not for pornography or work that violates RedBubble’s content guidelines.
It is for work that has a graphical hint (or more than a hint) of sexuality about it. It is for work with a vision. The erotic is part of life and has been the subject of art throughout the ages. This group aims to continue to celebrate this subject matter in a tasteful and thoughtful manner. The group is open to all forms of art: writing, Photoshop, 3D, painting, and photo’s…

As a non-native English speaker I thank Redearth being a co-moderator to help with the written work.

GUIDELINES
There are 3 art forms in our group, plain photo (+ Photoshop), painting / drawing and 3D.

Photo’s I reject are mainly because (and I look at your portfolio before deciding!) they have the feel of accidental snapshots, mostly out of focus with or have wrong white balance (for the digital users). The common most mistakes for analogue users are taking an outdoors film to make pictures inside, resulting in a terrible orange colour. If you want to be included in our group, learn at least the basics of using a camera. You do not need a big expensive camera to make great picts!
Erotic photography has its own rules. An accidental snapshot from your wife coming out of the shower will only be appealing if your name is Trevor Watson and your wife is a well-known fetish model.
Many things changed at Redbubble. Many groups now accept nude, so this questions the meaning of ART OF EROTIC VISIONS. Especially since lately there is a bunch of excellent nude photographers joining the community.
The new generation of Trevor Watson’s arrived. Those people who understand their camera and do their job with the most beautiful girls on earth. I think besides fetish and glamour these people need new groups.
So from now on, an excellent photo of a nude girl is not enough anymore, (I will accept some of them to give you a connection to our group) but a nude girl, holding a dead fish sucking her breast, on the other hand, tells me a story. So a new challenge for those excellent photographers, tell me a story, share your vision with us, do more than what you are used to, expand yourself.

About paintings and drawings, I will be very strict in these. It is very simple; I can see when you’ve developed your own “touch”. I reject most of these work because they are technically very bad, nice hobby, but not suited for this group.

The last issue: 3D. The Poser/Bryce community. You are rejected for using Bryce presets. If you use Bryce for backgrounds, at least learn to work with your parameters in landscape/terrain design—use the lighting to create your own atmosphere, and not a Bryce kitsch and camp atmosphere. Alternatively, if using Poser, buying realistic skin and hair for a Poser doll and downloading some pre-set poses, is not justification for calling yourself an artist. Working with Poser demands knowledge of human anatomy, as well as an understanding of the inverse kinematics of the doll. I have seen great Poser work on Bubble, but they’ve been rejected because the pose of the doll is not natural; the limbs are bended wrong (because you do not understand the inverse kinematics); or Poser has been used in such a way that all life disappears out of the doll. Another problem is that all Poser works tend to look alike, and every Poser artist can be exchanged for another. The only story these works tell is: “Look, I bought new clothes for my doll….”
I advise the Poser users to google and have a look at the pro 3D community. Always look for the best, and try to be better. Poser dolls alone are not enough; you have to tell a story with it.

Finally, if you are rejected, have a look at the accepted works and compare it with your work, and write the differences on paper. Learn from this.

Sandy Viktor Nys

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