Joining
All can join our group; memberships are automatically accepted.
Submissions
All members can submit 2 deviations per folder per day in the Favorites garden.
This is to encourage not only submitting your own beautiful art, but someone else's art that you admire as well.
All art that you submit must have less than 300 +favorites and be in less than 30 groups.
There are folders for traditional art, digital art, literature, and mixed media; please submit accordingly.
Submissions are not automatically accepted, but so long as the art meets the above criteria (and does not violate DeviantArt's policies), all will be accepted.
The Gallery garden is based more on a collection system rather than a submission system.
Submissions to the Favorites garden will be reviewed frequently and selections will be made from the Favorites garden to add to the Gallery garden. These Gallery submissions will be kept to a handful each day so as not to flood members' inboxes.
About Folders
In the Favorites garden, the folder categories should be fairly straightforward:
- Traditional = all traditional works
- Photography= all photographic works (photos made with both film and digital cameras)
- Literature = all literary works
- Digital + Mixed Media = all digital works & works created with mixed media
- Featured = works that are considered for Gallery submission
- Forget-Me-Not = works that were considered for Gallery submission
In the Gallery garden, the chapters are thus:
- Chapter 1 : In which we steep our roots in tradition all traditional works
- Chapter 2 : In which we flower and breathe in stills all photographic works
- Chapter 3 : In which we sprawl our veins through words all literary works
- Chapter 4 : In which we entwine and sow our hybridization all digital & mixed media works
- Chapter 5 : In which we rejoice and revere our elders all works that have exceeded 333 +favorites while here
- Featured : Gallery highlights (usually with less than 100 +favorites)
Other than that, I hope you will enjoy your walk through these gardens. I'm not sure what's in store for this place: it was created on a whim and I don't know where it's going. I was -- I am -- hoping for a nice little community of kindred spirits. I don't know if I'll meet any, but even 3 would be lovely (though, if I were truly honest, I hope to meet 333 someday).
Regardless, please feel free to meander the paths and perhaps even take root here,
just be sure to be nice and don't step on others in your travels.
With love from your founder,
sophiaazhou