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Welcome to Oekaki na smoczym!

At Oekaki na smoczym you can show off your drawing abilities on-line. All tricks are allowed, as long as they remain within the boundaries of good taste! Give it your best, as your work speaks of you. And, most importantly, have fun :)

1. The Pictures on Oekaki

All pictures at Oekaki na smoczym are created using one of the five available programs:

Everyone has access to these five applets, and so everyone has equal chances. Only you and your skills decide on the outcome.

Versions

Every time you upload a picture - or a retouch of a picture - a new version of a picture is created. Thanks to this you can return to a previous version of a picture if you find your progress unsatisfactory. As of today, only the last five versions are saved. Only the version marked "final version" is displayed on the board, but you can set any version to be the final one. For example, you create a picture that has six versions. Versions 2-6 are saved, and version number six is the final version, but you decide that you want to go back to version four and re-work it. You open the picture, from the menu on the left select "view version history", and there you click "set as current" next to the version you want to set as the newest one. Versions five and six are erased.

Every version can be provided with an author's comment and specifications regarding technique.

For the time being, Oekaki saves the last 5 versions.

Collaborations (Collabs)

Collabs allow you to join the ideas and talents of many people in one picture. You can choose for one person to finish your started picture, or create one together from scratch. Only one person at a time can edit the picture, and every author has access only to the versions they have uploaded and the comments appended to that version. The title, main comments and the decision as to which version of the collab will be the main one is up to the main author.

Promotions

Every finished picture may be promoted by other users, except the author him-/herself. By promoting someone’s work you let the author know you value highly his/her effort, artistry and technique.

The pictures promoted by a user can be seen in his/her profile.

Promoting can be cancelled by choosing the ‘Promotion Cancel’ option next to the work.

Mature filter

On Oekaki na smoczym it's the author of a picture who decides whether a picture is marked as 18+. If a Moderator deems your work to be 18+ and it's not marked as such, the picture may be removed. If you are over 18 and want to see pictures that contain sexual content, violence or foul language, check the appropriate box in your profile.

Available pics

If you don't want to finish your drawing, an alternative to leaving it unfinished (or deleting it) is setting it to "available" in the "edit" section of a picture. This will inform other people that they are welcome to finish the picture, and be listed as a co-author.

Image Annotations

You can leave notes on images - for example, to point out a mistake without having to type out exactly what you mean in the comments, or to say how much you like a certain part of the picture. You can do this by choosing "Add note" from the "Options" menu to the left of every picture. You then select the "add note" button that appears below the picture, adjust the note frame to fit whatever it is that you want to show, type in your comment in the yellow box and click "save".

2. The Boards

Pictures are grouped in boards. The newer the picture, the higher it is on the board's page. Next to each picture you can see the artist's comments, and the last five comments.

There are six boards on Oekaki:

Kaera - for pictures drawn in the manga style. This is also an expert board.
Inne - for pictures in styles other than manga. This is an expert board.
Unholy - as the name suggests...
Level2 - this is an intermediate board for pictures regardless of their style.
Tira - a training board.
Paintchat - a board for pictures drawn in Paintchat.

The level of skill required to have your picture on any given board is no secret. A quick glance will allow you to see what level the boards represent. Remember that if the moderators deem your work not fitting of the board you have placed it on, they can push it down (or up).

Note: photorealistic pictures can only be placed on the Inne board if they are not copies of photographs. Copying a photo is just practice, and so the picture should stay on the Tira board (relatively Level2, if you have made certain modifications to the original photo and the moderators agree).

The PaintChat Board

The Paintchat Board is a special board, where you can upload pictures created in Paintchat. The canvas in Paintchat is not saved not uploaded anywhere, so the only way to save your work is to make a screenshot of it. The easiest way to do this is to press the Print Screen button on your keyboard (it might be labelled as PrtScrn, or something along those lines). Next, open the graphics program of your choice, paste it into a new file and save it either as a JPG, or (if you're worried about image compression) PNG. Remember to crop the image to just your picture - don't upload the entire screenshot - and make sure the cropped image is smaller than 1000 pixels tall and 700 pixels wide. Once you have done this you can upload the image into the Paintchat gallery.

Such an upload has all the options of a normal oekaki picture, except you cannot retouch it. Remember this board is ONLY for pictures created in Paintchat. Do not upload anything else into this gallery. If you do, it will be removed by the moderators, and if you keep on doing so, you may even be banned.

The Unholy Board

This is a special board that only certain users can see. The decision as to whether or not you can have access to this board is up to the moderators.

3. Users

Every person who registers on Oekaki na smoczym is a User. A User can draw and comment on other peoples' drawings.
The Moderators can delete the comments of other users from their boards (every Moderator may be taking care of one or a few boards). Can delete the pictures and ban the users. Can drop your work from higher board.
The Administrator can do anything.

Priviliges

+PaintChat - person that is able to draw in PaintChat and upload screenshots to pchat gallery. PChat rules.
+PChatAdd - moderator that is able to give +Paintchat priv.
+Canvas - the user has access to canvases above 500x500 px (this is granted to users who have shown enough skill on smaller canvases)
+BetaTester - user which found at least one bug in Oekaki system.

Registration

Accepting the terms of service is required to become a member of Oekaki na smoczym. You must give a valid e-mail address, as an activation message will be sent to this address. You must confirm your new account within three days of having registered.

oeID

In the "Change my profile" section you can set your oeID. This is a picture that will be shown on your profile as a greeting to visitors.

You can see three links in the top right-hand corner, next to your avatar: Watched, Awaited and Messages. These all contain different content:

Watched
To ‘Watched’ you can add any user. When a watched person draws a picture, you will be notified of it. Seeing the newly created pictures by the watched artists can be done by clicking the ‘Watched’ option next to your avatar. A work will be removed from your ‘Watched’ box after you view it.
Awaited
Every unfinished pic you can add to special clipboard named Awaited. When you add some pic to awaited you give a signal to the author that you want this pic finished badly. By adding pic to awaited you kick author to finish his work in a short time :)
Messages
On Oekaki there are 3 kinds of messages – they are all grouped under the name of ‘Messages’ next to the avatar. The first kind are the comments – they are marked with special message bubbles which are being left under the commented pictures. The second kind are the comments left on the users’ profiles – which can be treated as a guest book where every registered user can leave a comment. The third kind are the private messages – the ones which, when being sent, have the ‘Private’ option marked and are not being shown on the user’s profile.

Your Artists

To ‘Your Artists’ you can add any user who you are going to draw colabs with.

4. Start Page

Most wanted - a selection of unfinished pictures that have been retouched within the past week and have the most people awaiting them.
Popular - a selection of finished pictures that have the most views and promos.
Retro - a selection of popular pictures from a year back.

5. Contests

Contests are special boards that group pictures according to a set theme. Every contest has start and end dates, between which pictures can be added to the contest. You can both add your own pictures to a contest, or you can vote for pictures taking part in the contest - the winner is the picture with the most votes. You vote for a picture by promoting it - the same as usual - but until the end of the contest there will be no information visible as to how many people have voted for any of the pictures taking part, nor will it appear in the "popular" section on the home page. Once the contest is closed the board is sorted by promo count, with the winner at the top of the board. The author of the winning picture receives an award, which is displayed on their profile. Contests can set certain limitations, say, all pictures must be within a size limit, or must have taken no more than a certain amount of time. The contest description will give you all the information you need.

Contests types:

Speedpaint -this is a contest with a time limit. Pictures that exceed the given time limit will not be allowed to compete. Your picture must have only one version, and the applet must not have been reloaded while you were drawing, as this resets the time count.
Openform - in this type of contest you can add pictures that had been finished before the contest had started.

Author: cml
Added: 21:55, 21 Aug 2006
Modified: 14:24, 21 Mar 2011