my name is cam and i do 'mations
Age 18, He/Him
Artist / Animator
East Carolina
Joined on 1/31/24
Aw damn that sucks man, I also do have an issue with the fact you aren't notified about ANYTHING related to losing specific privileges. While I am still an approved artist I did lose my ability to scout others with no reason given whatsoever. An automated message from P-Bot would have been nice for that.
aw man that's a shame. i agree, there needs to be some kind of alert or something when this happens, especially if it's something as weirdly specific as removing one of the main perks of being an approved artist
@Camations I agree with the part on communication even though I remember in a thread that mods can't respond directly every time because they all have different times of activity, tasks, and priorities which they set for themselves plus they are not obliged to always give a reason for the descout, always if I recall well said thread. But I personally think that maybe programming P-Bot with pre-written messages saying something like this:
"you have been unscouted from the Art Portal because your art doesn't meet the criteria for the Art Portal itself, please take a look at the gallery to know how it consists of"
"you have been castrated by scouting people who repeatedly break the site's rules or post low-effort works in the Portal, please read the following link about Art Portal rules"
might be an idea that would satisfy many de-scouted artists.
At the same time I strongly recommend starting a personal art showcase thread in the Art forum, so that users here can comment and potentially help to point you in the direction of improving your art, and one day you will improve at a certain level that will catch the attention of someone to scout you again. I also know though that now your unscout status will remain permanently unless a mod resets it.
Best of luck!
ShangXian
You did nothing wrong, the approved artists section of the Art Portal has certain standards in terms of skills and quality. I think you know what scouting is but just to be sure here three guides about it:
https://ornery.newgrounds.com/news/post/388624
https://lost-psyren.newgrounds.com/news/post/1461364
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1418778
I know it may hurt discovering it after a while but I think that with time and patience you will managed to reach the eligibility for being scouted again. I've see artists getting scouted and un-scouted to be re-scouted again after meeting certain criteria. And to answer one of your questions in your tags "who-did-this", an art mod removed your scouting status after seeing your works and evaluating their status to be on the Art Portal or not.
Your art is cute and some works caught my interest in terms of faving such as Harriet's Hamburger and Family Don Don, the bright colours and the animated pixel art have the potential to become something really interesting for the Art Portal if you grind your skills in terms of shading, dynamic poses and perspective. If you want to strengthen your fundamentals I suggest this forum thread:
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1453904/1
Camations
thank you for the help, this makes me feel a lot better. i really appreciate it
i know my art isnt amazing or anything. but if i really wasn't meant to be on the art portal with my current skill level, then why did it take almost a year for me to get kicked off? it just feels like a kick to the balls for it to happen a year into my newgrounds career, completely out of the blue, and right when i feel like my style and skills have really started to improve
i just wish there was more communication on the part of the mods, because i think i and a lot of other people who get unscouted would be a lot less upset if they at least talked to us about it. a simple "hey we made the decision to unscout you, here's our reasoning, here's what you can do to get scouted again" would go a long way, y'know?