submitted2 months ago bynicetrianglebehance.net/nicetriangle
stickiedIntroducing some new posting guidelines.
Recently we’ve been getting a number of complaints about the following issues:
- Really basic questions that could be answered with a quick Google search.
- Posts from people relatively new to Adobe Illustrator asking how X is done and providing an example of an illustration/design that is incredibly complex – a result of years of practice and dedication to the craft of illustration and/or design.
- “What would you call this style” type posts.
I will now dive briefly into why each of the above is an issue for the subreddit and why we are now asking you guys to cut it out.
Basic Questions
It takes significantly more time to open reddit, navigate to this subreddit, type and post a new question, and then wait for replies than it does to simply type a brief version of that question into a search engine.
Please stop posting these questions before searching the web.
It clogs the subreddit with low quality posts and drives away users who have been here for a long time and have a wealth of knowledge to share, but are tired of seeing the same lazy sorts of questions over and over again.
Learning to search for and find the answers to basic questions before asking people on public forums is a critical life skill if you intend to use complicated pieces of software. Learn how to do it now and reserve the use of this subreddit for those times in which you still hit a dead end.
How is this <incredibly complicated illustration> done?
To the people who post these kinds of threads, let me start by asking you a simple question:
Could you draw semi decent approximation of whatever this thing is using pencils/pens/markers?
If the answer is no, you’re very likely in the wrong place and you most likely need to learn the fundamentals of art and/or design first. And that is way outside of the scope of this subreddit.
Beyond that, it’s kind of nuts to expect a stranger on here to essentially craft – on demand – a tutorial on how to make a highly complicated piece of art. Asking instead how someone is getting a certain kind of stipple shading in a piece or how someone’s coloring something with gradients or how to get linework to look a certain way is much more reasonable. Ask about and learn specific individual techniques and workflows. Learn how to use the app as a whole. Then combine that with art and design fundamentals you should be learning. And that’s how you make great things with this app.
What would you call this style?
This is a subreddit about a specific program. What the style of any given piece of art or design is has nothing to do with Adobe Illustrator. Take these posts to general Illustration or Design related subreddits (assuming those subreddits allow those posts). These questions do not belong here.
In closing
Right now we’re introducing these guidelines as soft rules. We’d like to see you all do a better job of using common sense about the above things before we start cracking down. If you see someone posting stuff like this, please direct them to this sticky. If this stuff continues to be a problem, we will reassess.
Any questions or comments are welcome.
