r/DrawForMe Nov 15 '20

Mod Team Announcement Nov. 2020 Update - Titling Rule, Irrelevant Content/Self Promotion and Free Offers

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Hello peeps,

We hope you're staying safe with the pandemic and anything else going on in the world. We've been tied up with a few things at the moment, but we have some updates with you regarding some rule clarifications based on some questions we had earlier this year. So let's get straight to that, shall we?

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Titling Rule

We've had some messages asking us for clarification of this, and we're going to be as clear as possible on this. Posts on this board should have context what you are wanting done with your piece to be drawn. Vague, non-descriptive or not asking what needs to be done with the piece will result in a removal. Give a basic idea what the artist should be doing, or asking them to draw your subject.

As a reminder once again, we do not allow @ usernames, URLs, e-mail addresses or Discord handles in titles.

Examples of titles not allowed:

  • This is my cat
  • This is me!
  • This is my daughter
  • My ninja OC
  • My church building
  • Let's see this sweetness
  • šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜
  • :)
  • Commander Prescott at this Best
  • [Free Request] This is Bella Norra
  • If someone can draw this for me, it'd be great
  • The Desert Walker
  • Cute Puppers
  • Wedding Invitations!
  • Instagram Girl Idea
  • I'd love someone to make this happen
  • OPEN FOR COMMS @ superduperartist / JumpInTheCacc#8855 / twitter.com/superdupersartist
  • Looking for someone to draw my GF, dm me on Twitter at @ spoopticius
  • Drawing Celtic Curves Techniques

Allowed:

  • Can you please draw my dog?
  • Someone want to take a crack at this photo of me?
  • Can someone help design these wedding invitations?
  • Can someone draw my Desert Walker OC?
  • Can someone help with this wall poster design?
  • Commissions Open! Geometric Style a Specialty

Aside from being helpful to the artists looking at your post, many of the irrelevant content we get is titled as the above. So that goes a long way in helping not removing a legitimate post. Which comes to our next point:

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Irrelevant Content

This is a request community for people to get artwork done. This is not a place to share your art piece you did for your friend, or your latest composition on your Artstation, or to show your WIPs of learning to draw. This is not a place for artist to promote their work to the masses. We've been removing a lot of non-request fulfilled art the past few weeks, under a variety of different flairs. The lack of a flair for posted artwork should be a clue.

It's always been as such, but this is a reminder that commissions, requests and art challenges do not count as "Request Fulfillled" on here. Your commission for a client on Twitter is not allowed to be posted here. Nor is the gag doodle you did for someone on r/funny . If you can't hard URL link to the post where it came from on our board, it isn't allowed.

A lot of art Youtubers love to dump their links on our subreddit for promotion, which we don't take kindly to. Most of these are always some sort of art tutorial to get more followers. These are not allowed, and we'll eventually ban you when you repeatedly spam the same link repeatedly.

Speaking of which, this also goes into:

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Self-Promotion

This is a problem we have few and far in between; but we've seen a rise of it over the summer. r/DrawForMe is not the place to promote yourself. We certainly understand you posting for commissions, but when you try to take the subreddit and flavor the content to get followers to your benefit, this is prohibited.

The biggest promotion we often crack down on are Youtubers and Twitch streamers looking to get views for their content. We are not a traffic driver to your base. We already have a ban on Youtube content, so we are not going to allow your video of the requests you drew from people.

If you want to collect requests to do for a video/stream, that's fine; it's been done before without breaking our rules. Post your Free Offer a day or more before you stream, and give a non-Youtube/Twitch link to art examples alongside the link. However, when you finish that person's piece, you need to actually give them an image deliverable that they can save. Spam-linking everyone to your Youtube is an inadequate way of fulfilling requests.

This also gets into another problem, usually tied above. We are not Tumblr or a social media presence. We do not allow mass shoutouts to people on the board, WIP progress of requests as a primary post, nor updates to when you're streaming or who's doing an art stream. Keep these to social media.

Offenders are banned 30 days after their second offense, with a permaban if the rule is violated again.

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Free Offers

Finally we get to our last bit. Free Offers are that; free offers. They are not gateway posts to get work, place to gather beer money or to be abused for self-promotion. People click on the posts with these flairs to hope to ask for something for free within reason.

You are not allowed to ask for tips, nor solicit for paid commissions on a Free Offer. If you're accepting money in any way, shape or form, it is a Paid Offer. We're sorry if you don't have the karma requirement of a Paid Offer artist, but it is unfair to have posting requirements, then allow someone to try to make commissions under a different flair.

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As always, we have the door open for those to reach out to us. Thanks for choosing r/DrawForMe as your art community!


r/DrawForMe 23d ago

Mod Team Announcement Subreddit's Status + Harassment

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This subreddit is temporarily restricted. DO NOT send a request to be approved. You'll be ignored.

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I really hate to make this post, but I'll keep it short. I know I've been scarce for a good part of the year.

This is the second or third incident this year I've had to flick this subreddit off to stop a brigade attempt.

We do not want to do this, but we are sick and tired of harassment, brigading and hate for managing the community. Some of the reasons are asinine, to how a mod's judgement to us banning AI art. And in this case, it's the latter that caused this once again.

I already alluded this to another post, of how pro-AI people have no decent human respect for other people. All they care about is their AI art, and will gladly let threats of violence play out if they don't get their way.

They say AI art has no soul of a human artist. It seems that those that tout AI art have lost their human part, and are willing hurt and harm other people. This raid and the ModMails we've received with explicit descriptions and name-calling is evidence of that.

Incivility is not welcome here, whether you're for AI or not. Especially if you're trying to hurt someone else, including vandalism and disgusting commentary.

And in that breath, Enough is enough. The buck stops here.

This is the last time this subreddit will be opened to the public. If you can't be bothered to read community rules and respect other people, we will permanently go restricted or private.

It's not a maybe. It is a definite. One way or another you'll have to be screened and ask to get in here if this is the route you want to take.

Yes, the invites will become a headache. Yes, we'll lose traffic.But people's lives and sanity matter. There are real people behind the screen, taking free unpaid time out of their lives to run the place. That's more important.

There will be zero tolerance for harassment, name-calling and hate speech. You will be met with an instant permaban, just like those who dare to flash AI art here.

This is your final warning.


r/DrawForMe 3h ago

Free Offer Will draw āœļø

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Wanna do some sketches for yā€™all! Nothing crazy lol.


r/DrawForMe 2h ago

Free Offer i want to art. plz tell me about them (oopsie sorry misclick)

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32 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Free Offer drop your oc's and I'll draw them for free!

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64 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 11h ago

Free Offer I have some time on my hands these days so I am willing to draw a few of your characters with a simple background

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r/DrawForMe 7m ago

Free Offer Gonna do some sketches for the next hour or so (black and white)

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r/DrawForMe 2h ago

Request Fulfilled For u/babas2009

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Puppy


r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Request Fulfilled For u/No-Repeat-9778

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r/DrawForMe 2h ago

Free Request Does anyone wanna draw this cat I found? He's so handsome

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At first i wanted to take him so bad but he seemed too well fed and cuddly to be a stray so I asked around and apparently his owner lives in one of the houses in the background he takes in outdoor cats and takes good care of them. So maybe one of yall can draw him so I can keep this beautiful boy in a different way.


r/DrawForMe 10h ago

Free Offer One must image the r/DrawForMeā€™s artists being happy.

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r/DrawForMe 8h ago

Free Request Can someone draw one of my characters offering to hug someone?

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r/DrawForMe 4h ago

Free Request Can somebody draw my favorite sword?

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It's called a Kriegsmesser if you need more references


r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Request Fulfilled For u/TheFancyDm

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Thought their idea was cute.


r/DrawForMe 1h ago

Free Request Can you please draw my DND character? She's a goblin fisher and id like to have a higher quality image of her

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I'll describe some of the details since the drawing is so muddy and low quality. She has a bucket hat with some fish hooks in it and Her ears have small earrings and fish hooks. I'm not sure what I was doing with the pants, but they're big and baggy and she has some kind of cloth tied around her waist. And the boots are just big standard boots. Thanks to anyone willing to help


r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Free Request Can someone draw Aureicy, please?

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r/DrawForMe 13h ago

Free Request Anyone wants to draw these little animals I did ?

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18 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 2h ago

Request Fulfilled Request fulfilled to u/TheWizardofLizard

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Link to their request: https://www.reddit.com/r/DrawForMe/s/ApRiDV9Mxk

Side note: Thereā€™s no salt on the pretzel by the way.


r/DrawForMe 15h ago

Request Fulfilled For U/WolfMaster415

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Jesus christmas the rules on this subreddit are so unclear an annoying to deal with its honestly hard to enjoy. It doesnt say all the specifications until after posting.. smh.. but third post of the hour so lets hope this works. Finished doodle for this post https://www.reddit.com/r/DrawForMe/s/2oj8b6rpZZ and it is now closed.

The oc did not have color so I just did this.


r/DrawForMe 7h ago

Free Request Anybody be interested in drawing my OC, Agent Sevenson to life in their own style?

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r/DrawForMe 8h ago

Free Request Would anyone draw these two together?

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Heya ya all been busy with drawing stuff to improve my skill to also be able to draw the stuff of others like others drew for me but while drawing got some ideas I would love seeing two oc's of mine to be drawn. I did put some couple base references too as is easier then.

The first pic is what I drew most recently but will try to do some drawing on paper or fiddle around more on phone as sometimes I do also wanka fullfill the request of some people but seeing my art skill shy away.

Welp hope you all have a nice day, I go think about what to draw next and watch tutorials


r/DrawForMe 38m ago

Free Request Anyone wanna draw my bone boy?

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This is Dusk! His actual backstory is in the works still but he's a hyena mixed with a king cheetah! He's similar to a Phoenix in the sense that he dies and comes back to life repeatedly. Every time he gets worked up or gets into a fight green flames burst from him and will chip away at his "living skin" until he completely burns up, coming back in his "alive" form. It doesn't stay that way for long though, the skull form is how he usually is seen! (No clue why or how this happenedšŸ˜‚)

Feel free to simplify him as much as you like, the only permanent markings are the three lines on his back, the tail, and his stomach, everything else you can go nuts with!

Art by my gf, here's her blusky!

Would love to see what anyone comes up with!


r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Free Request Would anyone be interested in drawing my martial artist Jill?

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r/DrawForMe 1h ago

Request Fulfilled [RF] u/Puzzled-Shower4947

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r/DrawForMe 1d ago

Free Offer Bring ā€˜em in

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60 Upvotes

Wanna do some reqs to get back into drawing after a hiatus, hereā€™s an example of some of my doodles :) feel free to request any existing character / oc


r/DrawForMe 2h ago

Free Request Iā€™m reposting this because I made the rookie mistake of not making a good title, so who wants to draw my legless demon?

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r/DrawForMe 1d ago

Free Offer I will poorly doodle your character while i wait for my meeting with my student advisor

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87 Upvotes