do u know what is the problem ? inconsistencies !!! they are numerous (and still growing and still more frustrating as they are more and more difficult to understand and take place in a context where people can get to compare their works with very flat or poor approved items … ), even if people here are very satisfied with all the things that they do , and in particular as regard to reviewing, the fact of the matter is that u can see crazy things going on here …
i have personally experienced a hard rejection about one week ago, without i personally , nor any of my friends / fellow authors to whom i showed my work, failed to realize how my item could be rejected. They said they cannot get it , especially as regard to what they accept sometimes as of late. The funniest part is that when i submit to dribbble i have had 17 likes from design professionals there with this very same / unchanged item. The conclusion? what a certain number of people from the design industry consider as a good work, is not here … and is not worth being on sale here … .
Paradoxically, at the same time , they accept really flat and poor things sometimes and the discrepancy in the flyer category is being widening because of the items that they legitimately approve because they are huge (and from huge authors) and the ones (rather numerous) that they approve and that should have never made it here, which are probably worst and worst and more numerous daily …
however , if u ask me, this is not a way to do, mate. Indeed , showing someone’s work in particular is not a way to do. We all do our best with different experience, innate skills, styles and many other things … and we all work hard with what we have … (and we are not equal, unfortunately). Actually, the battle is meant to get rid of inconsistencies , not to drag anyone in the mud. In addition this is necessary to show any item in particular, we all have eyes and all have an eye for design , not to mention that sone of us are in the business for quite a long time (13 years for me for instance) and i guess that enables us to say what is good and what is not. The most important thing is that we know why, too …
the crazy thing is that i have noticed that there are more and more items with poor typo being accepted (beforehand they are a really limited number, it was almost never being happening indeed) when this is the n1 reason for people to get rejections here. It makes no sense at all and contributes to weaken the quality of items on sale in the marketplace and contributes to saturate the marketplace as well. Nowadays u can see some flyers with hardly visible texts being accepted, for instance , which is completely the opposit other way around of what their usual policy is preaching
finally the last problem is that accepted things get more and more stereotyped indeed … it looks like u need to have a list of ingredients (necessary light effects, certain typos and so on) here so that u can get through no matter what the result looks like. In fact, it should the other way around. All that should really matter is the quality of the final item which should be appealing, original and efficient if no one is “blowing a trumpet” and has a real guideline.
i will also further comment something that u said about effect sand let me tell you that i do not necessarily agree … at this time, u see a good deal of items lights randomly put and brush going in all direction making no harmony at all but they seem to be happy that have this “inconsistent buttering”, i think that people should keep in mind that composition are part of the deal , not an option , but a huge element !