Epic NON- FAIL.   

Done!   

From upload guidelines for walls

Our guidelines for judging wallpapers on aesthetic grounds are difficult to be specific about. The prime directive for wallpapers is that they must WORK as a wallpaper, in other words the design should be an effective desktop background, which includes: The background is not too busy and icons are easy to see against it, Colors are not too bright to be distracting, and colors work well together. There are many subjective design related preferences we all have and some objective qualifications as well, such as the quality of the rendering and the resolution size offered. And then there is the composition, the subject matter, the overall balance of the design, etc.

Which means a uploaded image could be fantastic as a piece of Art, but not work well as a desktop background; in a case as this the only fail would be not usable as a wall, not the art/image itself.

Thanks Jafo (I think) I am not offended by anything anyone has said, I am just saying you cannot lump sum anything, some fractal artists create unique and original stuff that is truly a delight to behold and some of it is just hoo hum, been there, done that. Amazingly, believe it or not, I am not a big fan of fractals per se but I do enjoy dinking around with Apo and trying to come up with new stuff that is not too busy to be used as a wall if you so desire. Since I lost my job back in January, I have been trying to learn more about how to do other types of work and funny you should use the flower as an example because my latest experiment is with a flower, yes, a real flower, not an Apo flower. Look for it in a gallery near you in the very near future!

Pardon me for disagreeing but no,I don't believe it is. The way I see it, it succeeded at a different level.  

While I may agree and disagree at the same time, the fact is that the majority of walls being posted are fractals, I will also go on to say that many of the fractals being posted are not good at all. It's funny how once someone attains the status of journeyman, they can post whatever they want. The fact is there just isn't anybody creating the type of walls you describe. I'll be the first to say that a painting beats out a fractal no holds barred. With the exception of TBC,  I haven't seen too many paintings here. SO for the mods that have declared their hatred of anything that wasn't painted, let's get serious here. We may as well include Bryce in this and how many times we see the same thing with a different color. I find this thread a little biased.

Being a Journeyman was something I used to strive for, it meant something and was something to be upheld, it meant you had a responsibility to the the community. Personally I think that should be a probationary period for the status with all works being moderated.

I have an idea, if you want to see other wallpapers, then I guess you should start making them. That's how I started. I didn't like the quality and knew I could do better.

BTW.   I totally agree with WebGizmos, there are not too many wallpapers worth downloading these days. I hardly download any at all, except for a couple of fractals and a couple others. I think maybe if people sent a PM to JAFO complaining about the quality of walls or one in particular, be it from a simple Apprentice or a Journeyman than maybe WC will start taking things a bit more seriously. I too will be the first to say that there is a marked difference in quality than when I joined 3 or 4 years ago.

Gary aka skyzyk

I totally agree with you. But what happens when Journeyman posts something that the simplest apprentice would have  sent to his PPE page. I am not at all commenting on refused works, for I have had my share aplenty and have written one of those posts also. I eat my pill and try to better my work. I am talking about people who do not do as you explain. That is exactly my point. On top of it when you make comments, well, let's just say they are not well received. What recourse or options, do we, as citizens of the community have? I have seen all kinds of works, not just fractals that are just not a work even, but a Photoshop plug-in generated image. Like Flaming Pears Solar Cell. The greatest example is THE Scandal of which we do not speak. I think some will understand. I too, am not speaking of any one person because it is more than any one person. It is an attitude. 

We do not have the right to question what art is or not. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the download counts will attest to that. Question what we will here, but people are downloading fractals.

Forgive me for a slight diversion of the thread topic.  We have some very talented artists creating wallpapers and contributing to this thread.  For those of you who want to challenge yourself (ESPECIALLY if you're a Journeyman, as at that level your should be more than capable) and help out some of your fellow community members by doing so, please consider signing up for the Skinartistry 2 Steampunk Wallpaper Challenge in this thread: https://forums.wincustomize.com/383143/page/1/#replies

We are 2 members short of having enough participation.  You would be helping those of us who have signed up, and who really would like this thing to take place.

Thank you.

This statement is what we call "Hitting the nail on the head".  This place is a comment/karma whore gold mine.  It's been said I don't have a lot of social skills and that may be true.  But I say what I mean and I mean what I say.  If I don't like something, I'll tell you.  And if I tell you I like it, well, you can believe it.

Survey closed, thanks for your help!