Understand Rejection: 9 Reasons for Rejected Content

Content submitted to illustAC might be refused to be published due to several reasons! To help you understand rejections better, in this article, we listed 9 common mistakes to avoid to get your content published.

Rejection ❶ – Content that is ”Poor quality”

A content is rejected for the reason of being of poor quality, it is because of one of the following issues:

Content that does not meet the company’s basic technical and aesthetic quality standards
Content that does not comply with the basic composition rules
Content that contains a font that is not consistent with the resource and is not for commercial use
Content that has presents lighting, contrast, or opacity issues
Content that does not make sense

Examples:

Rejection ❷ – Content that is ”Offensive to public order and morals”

A content is rejected for the reason of being offensive to public order and morals, it is because of one of the following issues:

1. Content contains nudity and adult content

Content that depicts a person’s nakedness or half-nakedness
Content that is heavily exposed
Content that contains sexual expression
Content that is obscene

Examples of content with acceptable nudity

understand rejection — *This content is acceptable because nothing is heavily exposed*

anatomy — *This content is acceptable because it is a medical illustration*

2. Content contains violent expressions

Content that is considered to encourage or encourage violent expressions such as bleeding, beating, stabbing, or shooting people or animals will be rejected
Content that encourages the use of illegal weapons and drugs
Content that depicts child abuse

3. Content accusing or attacking a specific subject

Content that contains any expressions or words that attack a specific individual, country, group, or organization
Content that includes elements of racial discrimination

Rejection ❸ – “Similar content”

Any content that has a few to none of the differences from other content in the same submission or is very similar to the content that has been published before will be refused to be published.

1. Similar content in different colors

2. Plagiarism

Content that imitates other resources or reuses any elements of other creators
Content that is live traced images in case you are not the author of those image resources
Content that is created based on other authors’ photos

Rejection ❹ – “Not properly tagged”

Right keywords to describe the content will foster users’ search experience, raise the chances that your content can be downloaded, and increase your income as a result. The following cases will be considered as not properly tagged:

Irrelevant tags, for example, ”Christmas” is inserted into Content about summer
Not English tags: you should only use English when inserting any descriptions of the Content

So, how to add tags properly?

Rejection ❺ – “Not properly categorized”

Just the same as tagging, when you choose the right categories for your Content, it will be displayed in the right places and users can find your content more easily when searching.

So, how to choose categories properly?

Rejection ❻ – “Personal information included”

A content is rejected with the reason of including personal information because of one of the following issues:

● The creator’s signature or copyright included in the content
● The content that portrays a celebrity in recent years (Walt Disney, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, etc.)

Historical figures are acceptable.

Rejection ❼ – “Registered trademark included”

A content is rejected with the reason of registered trademark included because of one of the following issues:

Content that contains a registered mark (red cross mark, Olympics five rings mark, SNS mark, toll-free mark, etc.)
Content that contains registered artwork
Content that contains registered logos or brand names of other companies or products
Content that the manufacturer can be easily identified (Especially content of cars)
Content that portrays real characters who actually exist
Content that includes the lyrics of existing songs, novels, manga, poems, etc.
Content that is close to the design of any actual product
Content that is traced or copied from other authors’ photos of the actual products

Rejection ❽ – “Not an illustration”

A content is rejected for the reason of not an illustration because of one of the following issues:

Content that is the hand-drawn illustration as it is. We recommend that you convert the data into vector data before posting, such as by taking a picture with a scanner or a high-resolution camera. It works best for watercolor content or brushes content.

*This content is acceptable because they are scanned with high resolution and can be reused easily*

Content that is not of appropriate quality
Content that is a processed photo

*This content is rejected because they are of poor quality*

Rejection ❾ – “Incomplete data”

A content is rejected for the reason of incomplete data because of one of the following issues:

Content that is in the wrong direction, for example, vertical orientated content uploaded horizontally.
Content that contains any stains or anything elements that are not illustrations
Content that contains misspelled text

The above are 9 common mistakes that you should avoid to get your content published. We believe that you can save much time and effort to avoid rejection when carefully reviewing this article. If you have any questions, check our FAQs or feel free to contact us.