Oekaki Suggestion

[Kohaku]

I'm kind of glad there isn't an advanced/invite only oekaki. One of the reasons I love the CS community is because everyone for the most part is supportive and helpful of each other. On many other oekakis I've found that a superiority complex develops in the advanced/invite only/have to try out oekakis. I like the CS oekaki the way it is.

I would only prefer an advanced oekaki because due to all the epic art on the intermediate oekaki I feel like the bottom of the barrel on that thread.

But the thing is my serious art doesn't belong on the begginers oekaki. I'm stuck between the boards since I feel like the Intermediate oekaki is trying to throw off the vibe that it only wants epic work.

I would prefer an Advanced board/Invite only so that the Intermediate board holds it's true name, for those artists in middle. And currently there is a lot of epic work on there that most people don't call Intermediate but Advanced.

I do understand where you're coming from, and I'm not saying you're wrong. What I'm really against here is the idea of an oekaki here that you would have to be invited to or try out for. And even if you didn't have to do those things in an advanced oekaki, It might still intimidate people who aren't sure if there art belongs there or not, which could eventually result in the people who often use that board deciding for them. again, a superiority complex. Now I know that anywhere you go you run into people like that because it's the internet and all, but I'm just trying to avoid it as much as possible here. I think maybe an open "intermediate/advanced" oekaki might be more useful, to tweak your idea. I personally don't see anything wrong with people who are great artists and people trying to improve their skills but are still intermediate drawing on the same board.
and I was going to say something else, but it escapes me now. my apologies.

[Nick]

Tryouts would be used just to reduce the number of drawings we have to continually move down into the other forums. We have to move sooo many scribbles out of intermediate into beginners each day.

[Pure Dragon]

I agree that there should be an invite/vote/try-out only Oekaki board. As Nick said above, I see a lot of art in intermediate that in my opinion (and many others' opinions) just don't qualify. And although some of these artists are politely asking for critique and have indeed spent an hour or more, many others of them are begging mods and admins not to move it to beginners, and it gets really annoying when these people's art covers the good art that I expect to see when I go lurking in the Intermediate.