Returning To Faa After Long Absence...

Welcome back! I think you may be taking a chance of discouraging buyers when you add a border of some sort. I would think they are accepted on FAA though. It's really your call.

BTW, very nice work!

Welcome back. Best wishes.

I think your imagery is very interesting! The style is a bit reminiscent of Robert Crumb. Good luck with your work!

Love your style and sense of humor....both come shining through.
I myst agree with Jessica about the borders...especially for customers who would want to mat and frame them.

Images are printed with a 1" white border all around, so you really don't need to create a border for matting/framing. A black border may look funereal to some people, and I think it's distracting because the black is much deeper than the black used in your drawings.I have some bordered images, but the border is part of the design. I leave a thin white border on my movie poster restorations because people don't know about the 1" border until they see the print. And it just looks weird otherwise. People just exoect to see a white border on a movie poster... on the older ones anyway.

Welcome back, DOP. Your work is luscious and beautiful; I absolutely love it. Your choice of subject, composition, concept and sense of play is delightful.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

You have a really wonderful, expressive style. I think your work would benefit from better descriptions though. And also, if you are scanning the work then I don't see a reason to keep it that small. My original work is fairly small because I make it to fit the scanner but I scan it large enough to do larger prints. I think it looks fine because the viewer will be viewing it from a distance anyway.

Welcome back :o)

Welcome back! I love your work. Very refreshing!

Welcome back DOP... Ditto on all the above compliments, terrific style and execution... I like!

never mind.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

DOP,

I'm cutting and pasting Dan Turner's remarks, since I can't say it any better

"Welcome back, DOP. Your work is luscious and beautiful; I absolutely love it. Your choice of subject, composition, concept and sense of play is delightful."


Now, paraphrasing a current thread title:

With everything I don't know, I'm a bit hesitant to continue

ANYWAY

Since you apparently elected to sell only prints, I can't see why the border would be a problem, in fact, with your tight black and white compositions, keeping them confined, to me, is an asset.

A one off reminder to people giving help, or 'advice'

Do not tell people what you think will sell or not. Nor how much images are worth. Just technical aspects that may help them be chosen by buyers.

No more 'i don't get it', or 'i don't think it works'. That's got nothing to do with technical help.

The biggest problem with borders are the problems that will arise if you intend to sell products.

I'll let Abs answer you definitively about the language question, but I'd be inclined to say no filter is necessary unless you are showing some fairly blatant naughty bits.

Diggin' your art!

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

We don't normally worry too much about text. Seems people are more interested in complaining about the human body.

We do cringe and frown on bad words in titles.

Thanks very much to all who replied and all who stopped to have a look! You've definitely given me some good info to work with and consider. Mike S., thanks especially for the feedback you'd provided earlier in the thread...It was very informative to me and very much in line with feedback/critique all of us former art school type people have learned to appreciate along the way. I don't understand the rationale behind the constraints that are in play here with regard to critiquing but will take the old "When in Rome..." advice.

Have a great day, all!

Welcome Back DOP

Just a general question that came to mind when I saw that "DOP" came back with a premier account... If someone (don't know if DOP did or not) previously had a gallery... closed their account, and came back at some future date and reopened another account... Is their previous gallery still available to them for adding to their new account without having to upload them all once more from home?

Don't know if this would help in answering your question, Brian, but I'd closed down/deleted the previous account I'd had under another name and, as of a few months ago, was unable to access any trace of the old account using the old user name/password (Just tried it out of curiosity and did not ask any administrators for assistance in recovering any images, etc.) I did have a sort of unusual thing happen a week or so ago, shortly before I'd upgraded to the premium account -- Upon logging in to my basic account, there showed to be an item waiting to be purchased in the shoppers cart. Clicking on this, showed it to be a print which I never made available under either my old account name or my new one but which had been part of a batch of images included as part of an aborted attempt at creating one of those "straight from Instagram" type FAA accounts that I'd initiated, then changed my mind about going through with some months back. Quite puzzling!

Welcome back DOP! You have a refreshing style with a wonderful sense of humor!! :0)

Brian, when I came back Abbie reopened my old Pro account for me. That's why it looks like I've been here since 2011 but I've actually only been here since the end of 2015 ( I think, might be 2014). I had deleted everything before I left tho, so there was no portfolio to restore.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

DOP, the only way anything can get in your cart is by being put there by yourself or someone who shares your IP address. The cart is IP based.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

Thanks DOP and Susan.

Susan, if someone were to close an account, is there any reason they should go to the trouble of deleting their images? In your case, it sounds like you could have restored everything had you not deleted them before closing your account.

I personally find the image uploading process to be very long and tedious, especially if you belong to a large number of groups and want to check all the boxes. Then going through all the hoops of adding the image and info to the social media sites available, then into some of the FAA image discussion threads... etc.

Since most group admins don't allow more than one or two uploads a day to a group, you can't continue uploading images (even different images) to the same groups for 24 hrs. Many admins say they will delete all the images you have in que if you exceed their specified daily limit.

Unless they've changed (which I doubt), Flickr allows you to leave membership but they keep all your images in their database so that if you reopen your account, you will have them available. I'm assuming FAA would have a similar ability although I don't think they spell it out in their guidelines.

That's a question for Abbie Brian, she is the account master.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

Brian

Images are deleted after 10 days on a closed account.

Thanks Abbie.

R.Crumb indeed! But with a modern sensibility. Fantastic work! Me, I like the borders/panels. Suits the style.

If you can afford it, I guess it would behoove you to keep an account open even if a break from art is needed. If you can't afford it, I think the thing to do would be just to change it back to a free account so you at least have 25 images you won't have to re-upload later. I know that It would be worth a heckuva lot more than $30 to me to not have to re-upload the thousand+ images I would have to delete. Egads, I don't even like thinkin' about it.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

DOB,

As for me, I feel that your work can rightfully stand side by side with that of my hero, B Kliban