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Welcome to the VarietyClub!

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:star: Welcome

:dance: Welcome to the Variety Club, a club dedicated to every kind of art work out there! We are here to bring together artists from all corners of DeviantART to meet and share ideas!

Our purpose is to expose the best art from a wide variety of artists on DeviantART. Do you have Fan art? Animations? Games? Emoticons? Photos? In this club, feel free to submit them all!

:star: Membership and Contribution Guidelines

How to Join
Membership is open to everyone, please select the "Join our Group" button at the top of the page if you would like to join :aww:. Membership applications are approved immediately.

How to Contribute
To submit to either VarietyClub's Gallery or Favs, first ensure you are a member of the group.

Submissions to the group's gallery will be accepted if they have 10 or more favs and are not marked as mature. To submit to VarietyClub's Gallery, select the "Submit to this Gallery" button located in this group's Gallery.

Favs will be accepted if they have 5 or more favs and are not marked as mature. To submit to VarietyClub's Favs, select the "Suggest a Fave" button in the group's Favs

The complete Submission and Fav guidelines can be found here: Contribution Guidelines
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We submitted nearly 40 submissions this week.  What do you think about that?  Is that level too much, or is it acceptable?  If you do not watch the group's submissions, what level would you find appropriate?  Do you want more exposure for your work?

My major concern at this point is whether anyone is really looking at the submissions being submitted to the group's gallery.  If submissions are simply being logged in the gallery and no one is looking at them, that's a waste of both the original artist's time submitting work as well as my time processing submissions each week.

I have two options running around in my head:
1. Clip the submissions to a constant across the group's gallery each week.  That means that each user would be limited to submitting 2 deviations and the group as whole would only select a constant number of submissions each week to be featured - like 30 submissions, leaving out a few that may not be the most noteworthy in terms of quality.  This would ideally ensure a standard quality of artwork (I would be filtering for works that do not appear complete [drawings with white backgrounds], do not appear to have required much effort [like snap shots] or are already listed in a large number of groups and already have been publicized).

2. Follow GimmeFeedback's lead and use a comment-submission trade-off.  That means you need to comment on some of the group's submissions before you will be permitted to submit artwork to the group.  I am deviantsearch.deviantart.com/a… on an app) to automate this process so it will be easy to simply look up how many comments you have made and how many submissions you have made to see if you are eligible to submit.  This app is mostly for the admins though to check to make submission levels are adequate - the user doesn't need to do much more than comment on the group's submissions.  I believe this would be the most effective way to increase the publicity of the art pieces in our gallery since it requires users to visit several submissions to leave comments.

Anyway, your feedback on this matter is much appreciated and will  determine the future of this group.

parallellogic

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:bulletblue: My Favourite Colour Contest by Colour-Me-Happy (Feature) ends 4/30/10
:bulletblue: Somewhere Contest by Artakula (Feature) ends 6/21/10

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Xx-Manda-Panda-xX Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2010
Was going to join... but three things stopped me:

1- DeviantArt is already a community for various artists.. it'd be like joining a club within a club that has the same purpose.

2- It states that: "Our purpose is to expose the best art from a wide variety of artists on DeviantART." But I see a lot of things in your gallery that really aren't anything special.
Not that I think those people shouldn't make art or anything... everybody starts somewhere right? But having beginner doodles in the gallery seems to throw off the theme of 'bring the best together for all to see'.

3- You submissions policy is run by faves. That seems kindof bizarre to me. I've seen some AMAZING works of art out there that don't have a single fav. Isn't the point of a club like this to bring recognition to the time and effort given to the lesser-seen masterpieces?

I'll be on my way. But I hope this helps the club somehow... Constructive feedback is always good to have.
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Nhan-SnakeX Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2010   Digital Artist
Excuse me, I can contribute art only when my works have more 10 fav?
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AuchanVriconella Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2010
hi :wave:
would you like to affiliate with my group=
:icondeathnote-x-over: :D
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xXVampireDreamerXx Featured By Owner Jan 13, 2010  Student General Artist
Would you like to be affiliated with :iconthedeviantartgallery:?
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Shaku-sama Featured By Owner Jan 4, 2010
sorry but.. the ava says 'varity club' ?
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WarriorLoverInc Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2009  Hobbyist Writer
Affiliate with :iconpoetsandwriters: and :icontheunheardvoices: ? :meow:
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Little-Miss-Mello Featured By Owner Dec 24, 2009
Merry CHristmas ALL <3
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Gytis301 Featured By Owner Dec 14, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
how to sumbit my work? Here is link: [link]
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RoccoBertucci Featured By Owner Dec 13, 2009  Student General Artist
How do we contribute art?
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isarulz Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2009
Hey :la:

I wanted to ask you if you could give some support to my group..

I created #Animals-and-nature for people that like or love animals.. and nature :la:

I would really apreciate if you could watch us or put a link to the group in a blog entry or something.

Thank you so much :iconfurryhugplz:
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