Thiefo, y u no DD? :c

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I'm finally taking some time to get through aaaaalll my notes, I was getting a little behind but I'm slowly getting there! My current message count is 0 so yay! ... nevermind I just got another note.

Anyway, sorting my notes out today I figured I could show you something you might find interesting.



NO! That's not it! you dirty pigs....

I was talking about this: sta.sh/0pffi5ytnod

What is it? ... yup! those are unselected suggestions.



As most of you already know, I like to take the suggestions I don't select and feature them in any other way, one of them is through my Digitally Delicious series and I also share a fair amount of them in tumblr. To keep myself organized, I keep a sta.sh document with all these deviations and I'm constantly feeding it while I'm checking my notes. It's a very primitive way to keep the thumbcodes in a document insite but hey! Works for me :B

At the moment I'm writing this they're 65 but that number is constantly changing so when you read this they may be more (or less) and they are only from the last couple of days! Next week I'll add more.
Now, just to be clear I consider all of these deviations to be DD worthy. I would've featured them in a blink.....

THEN WHY THE HECK YOU DIDN'T DO IT THIEFO? >:c

Yes I know, I'm a terrible CV, but let me give you some numbers before you stab me. So calm your tits.



I receive a number between 10 to 20 suggestions a day, the number greatly varies from day to day and I never know why :stare: but that's an average.

Let's take a hypotetical time span of one week. That would mean I would have around 70 to 150 suggestions by the end of the week. I'll now proceed to select the DDs of the next week. That means I have to select 7.

From 150 I cut them maybe in half, from those I consider have a decent quality level. From those 75 I get maybe 20 from deviants with no previous DDs.... but I still can only select 7!

At this exact moment I have 39 starred notes, those are my pre-selections; deviations with a great quality level and from artists with no previous DDs. They're like SO ready to be featured! However I can't feature all of them either, at the moment I only have 18 days left open, (the system has a limit of how many DDs I can set in advance) so that will mean I'll have to cut another 21... and that will also mean I already have my DDs scheduled up to middle march.

See where I'm going? Sometimes the reason why I don't select a deviation is because the quality level is below average. It sucks, I know, but is true, sorry.



Sometimes the reason is because the deviant already have a lot of DDs. I'm sorry again, but there are a lot of deviants with no DDs waiting to be featured for the first time! I prefer to give them priority.

But sometimes... the reason is as simple as ... because I can't! I can't select all of them! Even if I wanted.



So that's why I have so many deviations in queue to be featured in another way, I think they're great, I just can't DD them simply because I have no more space. No hidden intentions, no conspiracy theories.

Btw, this wasn't BY ALL MEANS a -don't send me more suggestions- journal, not at all! Keep them coming!

This was just to give you another insight of my process. I've always been transparent about it because I truly believe people deserve to know more about how DDs are selected, so there you go. Here are other journals from me regarding DDs:

Protip: fortunately for you, I'm not the only one taking suggestions for Digital Art. Aditional to RezaBisuto and I, there are also:
All of them take your suggestions for Digital Art, so there!

Have a nice weekend!


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Ozzien's avatar
WHERE DO YOU GET THOSE WONDERFUL GIFS?!?

On another note, I didn't see you mention this, and I thought it might help(???):
When a DD gets my attention, I don't automatically :+devwatch:, I check out that person's gallery first. In other words- If the person has an impressive gallery, they're likely to get more exposure from a DD.