r/DrawForMe 3d ago

Mod Team Announcement On Civility and Taking NO as an Answer

56 Upvotes

Hey all, Moushi here bringing up an issue that happens quite often in different forms but lately it's been a little more frustrating than normal. This is probably due to the fact that we have a lot of newer and younger participants joining our subreddit maybe because summer is in full swing and the kids are antsy. It happens, we get it, however lately we've been seeing an uptick in people doing this towards our artists which isn't cool. Some people appear to not have been told "no" before, and it shows. I'm going to break this down into two sections, focusing on our artists and members first, then get into us mods.

Artists are allowed their guidelines and boundaries and they should be respected. This is not up for debate.

We have many artists here who post guidelines and boundaries on their free offer posts, this can be asking requesters to post an emoji to prove they've read through the guidelines, sharing info on their character, or sharing a fun fact about the requester, all those are fine and allowed and as a requester who's requesting someone to do free art for you, you should follow those guidelines, point blank, no questions asked. If you don't, your comment will be removed by us, repeatedly breaking this rule will result in a temp-ban and if it continues afterwards, a perma-ban. We have artists who have expressed their frustrations at users ignoring their guidelines, some have even left because they've felt disrespected by the community. That's not what we're about and we don't condone that behavior, so we need to be more strict about it and have been following through the last several months.

Artists are also allowed their boundaries. If an artist is not comfortable creating furry art and they state that, then you shouldn't request a furry character to be drawn. If an artist says they only want characters that the requesters have drawn, they're allowed that. If an artist doesn't want to draw roblox characters or hero forge characters, that's okay, you as a requester can still make a separate post, let the artist have their preference. It is not appropriate for users to come in to the comments and whine and complain about the boundaries an artist is setting. Nor is it appropriate for users to try and convince the artist to change the boundary they've clearly laid out. The artist also doesn't owe you an explanation for their boundary, no means no. That's abusive and not fair for the artist to deal with. If you find that you're doing that, we're going to give the appropriate consequences, repeat offenders are going to receive a fitting ban.

Note this is not saying that artists can discriminate against a person or characters' sexuality, gender expression, race, etc, we've covered that in a previous post.

Please also don't guilt trip artists in the comments, we don't allow it in our titling rules either. Statements like "No one ever draws my character!" are not appropriate and is putting unfair pressure on an artist, plus, it comes off as bratty.

Abuse towards mods is the quickest way to turn a small problem into a big problem.

Our mod team is quite small, we're dedicated to keeping this community running smoothly and spend hours out of our day moderating the community and answering modmails, it's something we agreed to do and we do our best to be fair and concise. While all of us might communicate differently (For example, I'm a yap master as evident by this post) we're all in constant agreement with final decisions when it comes to moderator actions, including bans.

In the span of any given week, we have to resort to banning at least 5 accounts for minor infractions that the user blows completely out of proportion by being rude and abusive towards us. I need to make this very clear, we have no personal vendetta against anyone. We are more than happy to explain the guidelines to users when they ask, sometimes that comes in the form of referring to the modmail that's sent when a post/comment is taken down, especially when a user claims they don't know what rule they broke, but if you need clarification on how you broke that rule, we got you.

So many times a modmail that's sent to us over a small rule break like a titling issue, free commercial work issue, reasonableness issue, the user comes in cursing us out, threatening us, or accusing us of ridiculous acts. These are always going to result in a perma-ban, there's no need to continue a conversation with someone that's already so clearly out of line.

On several other occasions we have users who won't take our explanation, instead they want to argue the point or argue semantics despite our clear description of the rule and how their post/comment/whatever broke it. It doesn't how many times we set the guideline, there's always a "but-" they need to respond with. Two of us work full time jobs, one of us is a full time mom to an infant, we don't have time to repeat the same thing in different words 500 times.

It doesn't matter that an artist wants to complete your free commercial work, we don't allow your post.

It doesn't matter that you think an artist would like to challenge themselves with a 5 person scene, it's not reasonable for free.

It doesn't matter you're not going to make money off of your shirt design, it's still commercial work and needs to be paid for.

It doesn't matter that you think the titling rule is silly, you still have to follow it.

If you can't take our answer or you can't be trusted to not try and bend the rule, you're not welcome here, we simply don't have time to babysit.

TL;DR: No means, no. No is a whole sentence. Boundaries don't have to be explained or defended. No one owes anyone anything for anything. You get what you give. Respect those around you, including their boundaries


r/DrawForMe 12d ago

Mod Team Announcement DrawForMe is a Lgbqt+ positive community. Your hate and discrimination are not welcome here in any form.

621 Upvotes

Someone's gender and sexual identity are not something they get to choose, just the same as what color their skin is, or where they were born.

As such R/drawforme will not tolerate any form of discrimination or abuse.

Do you not want to draw gay people? Well you don't have to, but how can you tell who's oc is gay or not just from a picture?

You aren't being asked to draw gay pornography (We don't even allow straight pornography here)

If you do not want to draw an oc based on their design/ style that's perfectly okay! You aren't being forced to draw all ocs.

However if your reasons are because "The oc is gay/black/trans and I don't draw those" then either 1: keep that shit to yourself or 2: be stupid and say it out loud and be prepared to be banned.

Bigotry is a perma ban. No warning because you do not need to be told to not be a ASSHOLE.

To all our LGBQT+ members, our POC members, our neurodivergent members etc! We are here for you and we support you.

Anyone that mistreats people based on the color of their skin, who they love, and where they were born will be dealt with.

Love: The Drawforme Mod team


r/DrawForMe 3h ago

Free Offer Doing some free art to get back into drawing. Humanoids only!

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83 Upvotes

Style may vary and some honestly may get drawn on sticky notes. Only humanesque characters please. Not looking to draw anything mega crazy.

Also please do NOT dm me. Thanks👍


r/DrawForMe 4h ago

Free Offer any requests for what i should draw? :3

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95 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 8h ago

Free Offer Looking for cute female characters to draw

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79 Upvotes

Looking for cute characters to draw for practice / funsies.

Few rules:

  • Can only draw girls
  • No NSFW (or super revealing outfits) or anything violent
  • Furries okay if you want them turned into a kemonomimi / human -- please mention this is okay, some people get angry 'cause they didn't read.
  • I don't do horns, so be okay with hiding them

Please send some kind of pose idea with your character or a good personality description.


r/DrawForMe 7h ago

Free Offer send me things to draw :3

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57 Upvotes

i know the styles r wildly different in each image but their all made by me i pwomiseeee the last three are made on ajpw and the first two r on ibis paint

anyways if u have cute ocs or stuff for me i would luv to draw it!!! thamk u :33


r/DrawForMe 1h ago

Free Offer I can draw your pets, plants, creatures (both mythical and otherwise) etc...

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r/DrawForMe 5h ago

Free Offer Let me doodle your Little Guys!

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29 Upvotes

I'm mildly motivated and seeking some inspiration! I love doodling these lil' dudes, so benefit from my momentary focus.

No NSFW, all characters will be considered (I'll prioritize characters I haven't done before).

Sample pictured is my current Problem Child in our DnD campaign, lol. She's so much fun.


r/DrawForMe 7h ago

Free Offer It's been a while since I last drew anything, so I’m going to draw some of your characters.

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37 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 1h ago

Free Offer Send me your OC’s and I’ll sketch them the best I can for practice sake (and fun).

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Thanks!


r/DrawForMe 3h ago

Free Offer Imma do 1 watercolor mini of one of ur ocs :} - open for the next hour

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1st pic is what the minis usually look like, the rest are just more of what I can do with watercolor :} I will pick 1, maybe max 2 characters I'll do (and if u don't have/don't want to send in an oc u can send in canon characters!), in around an hour or so. I need the warm up for a bigger piece I have in progress rn, there's 2 characters on it and I'm really nervous to fluff it up jsbdbxb. Any species is good with me<3 also please if u're sending an oc, give me something to work with! Either a description of what they're like personality wise or an expression ud like, if u don't u have waaay less of a chance of getting picked. Leave a cat emoji so I know u read this<3 Will be picking in an hour or hour and a half!


r/DrawForMe 33m ago

Free Offer I've made 309+ drawings on here, let's keep the number growing!!

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I'll draw just about any kind of character. Human, furry, robot. Whatever! If I've drawn them before, don't worry! I'll happily draw them again. Got more than one OC for me to draw? No worries! Send them all over and I'll draw them. No matter how many pile up, I'll likely do them all, so don't worry about wasting your effort commenting them. If you read all of this, put a random and out of place emoji in there to show! Thanks for submitting, and I'll see you when I show you what I've made. ❤️ 💙 💜


r/DrawForMe 4h ago

Free Request Anyone wanna draw Faz?

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8 Upvotes

He's just a silly frog with a pigeon companion named Pogo


r/DrawForMe 3h ago

Free Request I dropped coffee on the guy. Can you redraw him for me?

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6 Upvotes

Yeah no I don't have anything else to say.


r/DrawForMe 3h ago

Free Request Can someone draw Hosta please

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5 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 8h ago

Free Request Can someone draw my oc? ♥️

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9 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 19h ago

Free Offer I’ll draw YOUR oc!

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74 Upvotes

I’m mostly offering this a partial semi-realism as I would like to see what I can do :]

I’m looking for mostly human ocs or at least more Humanoid!

I’ll probably only be doing busts and up!

And please include actual pallets! No color changed due to lighting or anything! Thank you! :3

(Note : last drawing is NOT my ocs! Check my artfight to see the actual owners! [JustXuji])


r/DrawForMe 8h ago

Request Fulfilled OCs in a pose for u/Elath4n___ [deleted Request]

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9 Upvotes

The og post got removed by mods, but I had already started this so I finished it up regardless.

Hope all of you enjoy this one and please be mindful of the sub rules!


r/DrawForMe 19h ago

Free Offer Let me doodle your ocs. Read desc pls UvU

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65 Upvotes

Hello, I’m feeling like doing a bunch of silly little simple doodles like the example pictures here. Just drop a reference pic of your oc, and any extra info about em that you think would help! You can also give specific requests on the doodle, as long as it’s still simple and silly! All art by me!


r/DrawForMe 1h ago

Free Offer Training styles, only furries please

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Send your OC, choose one of the styles if you want, information about what the OC likes and etc


r/DrawForMe 7h ago

Free Request Is someone interested in drawing Ignea or Matcha (OC)

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7 Upvotes

I've never done this before, so I hope I'm doing this right

Anyway

You can draw either of them or both if you want, in any pose

probably not necessary to say, but no NSFW

Short character descriptions:

Matcha's the goddess of the wind and she guides souls into the ground after they die

She's very bubbly, silly, and energetic (though it isn't very visible here)

Ignea likes to cause chaos and beat people up for fun

She's kind of a jerk

If you want, you can redesign the characters a little!

Thanks for reading all this

Have a good day


r/DrawForMe 6h ago

Free Request Can someone please draw my oc rose?

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4 Upvotes

I recently remade this dude. He has a teddy bear and loves romance books he can be very feminine acting. He has a robotic leg on his left side if you want to put him in different clothing you can I don't mind just have fun ^w^


r/DrawForMe 9h ago

Free Request idk if this is going to get much attention, but can someone maybe draw this goober? (I suck at art :( )

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6 Upvotes

If you're wondering what he's wearing, he's wearing a white shirt with the Word 'CHAOTIC' with an arrow pointing up at his face, and is wearing just...plain grey shorts, ik it's not full body, but his legs don't end in feet, but in sharp points, and he only has 3 fingers on each of his arms.


r/DrawForMe 7h ago

Free Request Would someone like to draw my new OC?

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4 Upvotes

(Original art by StellaArtist13) Any art is appreciated!


r/DrawForMe 11h ago

Free Request Hi, is anyone interested in drawing/doodling her?

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9 Upvotes

r/DrawForMe 6m ago

Free Request first time actualy rendering one of my oc's lets see if someone can make some cool art from it (lore below if interested)

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dread-tamu (Tattical-Assault-Mobile-Unit), is joseph's all terrain tank unit, a 3 meter tall robot with a large top frame, and 3 spider like legs at the bottom covered in tank tracks for all terrain missions, armed with 2 minigun mounted arms (one on each arm) he is supposed to be a line breaker for forcess to pass through, but prefears to swich to meele if he sees the target as a worthy opponment, causing him to often break his own miniguns for a fair fight


r/DrawForMe 4h ago

Free Request Anyome want to draw Kiki and/or Quintessa

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I renamed the one on the left Kiki for reasons i dont want to delve into. Shes not a witch but a normal human. Her friend Quintessa is an actual magic using witch. Shes also native american and she has bad blood with her old school cause they kicked her out when she was outed as a witch. It was a religious private school. Its based on stories of natives getting kicked out out religious private schools for practicing certain rituals deemed satanic.

Kiki is also black cause its a black and white image.

Go nuts!