I dunno...

[den]

Elfwood has closed its SF gallery, and combined it with their Fatasy galleries so thatthey now only have SF&F. I moved my SF pictures to the new gallery as per instructions, and the following images were rejected despite being accepted in the SF gallery. Most of the rejections I accept; they were a bit abstract. These were rejected because they are supposed to have a fantasy element in them to be acceptable

http://www.battyden.net/pictures/3D_Renders/titan.jpg/
http://www.battyden.net/pictures/3D_Renders/alpine.jpg/
http://www.battyden.net/pictures/3D_Renders/poohsticks.jpg/
http://www.battyden.net/pictures/3D_Renders/mistymtns.jpg/
http://www.battyden.net/pictures/3D_Renders/terramilford.jpg/

I assumed drawing something from my imagination was good enough. My bad.

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[kaijima.livejournal.com]

While I can see why Elfwood rejected those pictures, I can also remark Elfwood has always, in general, had a stick up their collective ass about what defines "science fiction" and "fantasy". In times past at least, you would get rejected even if you had the dragon in the picture, if there were also anything that might be considered "science fiction" in the same image. God forbid you create a race of alien reptiloids which happent to look draconic but are on a space ship! That's not real fantasy. (Dragons should be flying over mountains and castles or maybe breathing fire on cows.) The great Elfwood Purge of Fan Art also would have seen fine artists like Julie Dillon lumped in with generic Sailor Moon crayon scrawlings.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

These were rejected because they're straight landscapes. Some of my others were rejected because they were abstracts.

I know of some images, particularly of Elves, that were rejected as Fantasy because they had some non-fantasy element in them. Good grief! Elves don't use guns! Everyone knows the modern Elf still uses bows and arrows.

This might chance now that they've combined the SF&F galleries. Dragons on spaceships may be acceptable.

But it is a free gallery and they can set the rules as they see fit. The "stick up their arse" is what made me remove all my dragon stories from there.

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[azhreia.livejournal.com]

dragons flying around in spaceships ?


reminds me of E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series. That's not just science fiction ... it's _definitive_ science fiction, from the golden age when men were real men, and did their starship navigation with a slide rule. :-)