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I think all is already explained in the first posts, but because I just had to go through a very frustrating round of rejecting 75% off all entries we got so far I would like to summarize the most common mistakes, so maybe some people will read this and avoid such mistakes in the future.
Please keep in mind that this is in YOUR interest, because otherwise you are the one wasting time working on items that might get rejected;
- MALE AND FEMALE VERSION FOR ITEMS.
Most items on KOfK are unisex, meaning they fit on the male base as well as the female base. Some don't and this is pretty much limited to shirts and undershirts as well as long gloves or armwarmers. If you draw such an item you must provide me a version on the MALE and FEMALE base. Do not draw two completely different items!!!!
- LAYERING ISSUES
I already thought this would be the biggest problem and so it is. PLEASE try to imagine your item on multiple other items. Sometimes people send me images pasting their items on existing KOfK items to show me how they think it works. But just because your items works with some other items, it does not mean they work with all, or even the majority of other items. A common mistake so far are for example overshirts or any other kind of item going over the shirt that is not just a brooch. They are tricky items as most of them will only work on very tight shirts. (Take a look at the "overshirts" we have so far. They are always things that can be pasted right over the shirt, not merging together with the shape of any shirt in any way) As soon as you have items with great collars (Vampire Garment for example) or long sleeves (Yukatas for example), they merge into the other items and look like a hot mess. Other very tricky items are hats. Hats that cover all of the head are close to impossible. They might look decent with some short hairstyle, but as soon as you have bigger hair it turns into a hot mess. Other items that are basically impossible are things like belts, shoulder bags (impossible to layer, really), earrings that cover the ears (messing up with all equitable ears as they have a different shape) , gloves or armwarmers that are not skin-tight, etc.
I realize some of you are trying to be original, "inventing" items of kinds we do not have on KOfK yet. But there usually is a reason why we do not have these items! If an item is drawn in a way where I think "Okay, if I alter this, it might work", I might still accept it, but some items are just hopeless.
Try to stick to "safe" items.
- SAME MAIN COLOR
I did not think this would be any kind of problem, because it seemed like an easy rule to follow. Items on KOfK have names like "Shirt (Blue)". The Treasure Trove was build by starkad in a way where sets must have the same name. This means you cannot draw blond hair and have a green shirt, because both the hair and the shirt will be called (green). Your items do not need to have one color only, but in each item of a set, the BIGGEST part of the item must be colored in the same color as the rest of the set.
Also, please do not draw anything else on your submission. No numbers, no name, no additional items, no background. It just means I have to either reject your submission, or spend time cutting out the stuff.
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