Decided to make a journal about this just so people know in advance before submitting traced artwork. I will only accept Bowser related artwork that the artist fully drew themselves however I will make some exceptions with traced artwork. If the ORIGINAL artist of the work you traced allowed you to trace their work, I will accept it. Proof of this by crediting them in the artist description of your submitted piece and you mentioning they granted you permission. Since I am such a huge Bowser fan, I am familiar with a lot of fanart that Bowser fans have created but if there are potential traced pictures I do accept into the gallery, it's because I haven't seen the original artist's version yet and if I do find it I will remove the image from my group until you credit and get permission from the original artist. That is all for now! Thank you for reading and continue honoring the Koopa King with your hard work and love for him.:heart: :evillaugh:
Hey just another quick update! To everyone who happened to see the very inappropriate and unacceptable images that were submitted into this group, they were submitted by a troll after joining. I have updated the settings in my group where people can only join as members and no other group role to join to help prevent this from happening again. If you happen to see anymore suspicious behavior in my group, please let me know as soon as possible and I will try to take care of it. Thank you for your time and many apologies for the inconvenience Koopa Troop. :salute:
Hello everyone, B2Q with a new update!:wave: I am slowly organizing my folders to have artwork all in appropriate themed folders. I want to make it perfectly clear that artwork that you submit of any Koopa OCs that are the same type as Bowser are acceptable in this group. I have had it like this for a long time but I just wanted to remind people just in case they weren't aware. As long as the Koopa physically has Bowser's build for the most part it is acceptable or if it happens to be a different type of Koopa other than Bowser, the artwork is still acceptable as long as Bowser happens to be featured in the artwork along with the OC. The only type of artwork I will not accept is anything that is against deviantArt's terms of service such as porn, extreme fetish artwork that happens to be NSFW (Not Safe For Work), Bowsette because while it happens to be a OC themed after Bowser, the character makes Bowser look more like Peach rather than Bowser himself as a rule 63 version and lastly traced artwork. Free to use base artwork that anyone has used to make their artwork and credited the original base creator is acceptable. I may update what is acceptable in my group once again in the future, but that is all for now. Have a nice day.:aww:
Okay I gave people the freedom to upload their artwork into the featured folder in my group, but I see people are just putting pictures in the group that have nothing to do with Bowser when this IS a Bowser fan group. I changed it so submissions need to be voted on in order to be accepted. Since I have a pretty busy life, I won't be able to accept submissions all too quickly and in the future I may consider having a more active co-founder to help me out with running the group but I feel like it isn't really all that necessary right now since this fan group isn't all too big anyways. All that I ask is, if you are going to submit artwork in the group, it has to have Bowser in it some way, plus I ask that people avoid submitting stuff that is of memes or Bowsette. Bowsette is a FAN character, there are groups for Bowsette artwork and it's certainly not a rule 63 version of Bowser, it's just Bowser looking like Peach instead of Bowser looking like a feminized version of his original self. There are other groups for that, this one will not be one of them. Anyways, thank you for your time and have a good day Bowser fans. :)
I have decided to do a contest for this group just for the heck of it. :shrug:

RULES/INSTRUCTIONS:

1.) Submit a Bowser-related deviation to the folder "CONTEST" in the group gallery

2.) After 1 week, a winner will be chosen. They will receive a llama and some their stuff will be permanently featured in a special folder in the group.

3.) All deviations must have Bowser in them.

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CONTEST ENDS NOVEMBER 20