Has Vore Art Become"Worse"?

[Tril]

I think an upvote button isn't a very wise idea.

Not everyone started off as the amazing artists they currently are. With an arbitrary voting system like that, you'll discourage those that could evolve into an amazing artist. Comments are fine.

[Jahan]

For the most part, it's simply because there is now more of it. A LOT more of it.

As someone who's been about since before Eka's, since before SwallowSoft (a chat) ceased existing-dear lord, it's mostly just because there's more of it. (... Oh god I've been in the vore community for over twelve years what how.)

In the heydays of Voretex, Big Gulp, Vor-Com? You were lucky if there was an upload of new art once *week*. And even then, it would likely be one or two new pictures. The artist's page had *maybe* two dozen different artists. That was, more or less, it.

[SaintxTail]

I think it just may be more art to wade through in general. It doesn't help that Devianart has a lot of censorship and risk you being flamed by people who are not their for vore or don't get it. That's why feel more comfortable posting my art here in the safe space.

[Tsavo]

Art getting worse? Lol, I remember when there wasn't a guy like Karbo attached to our community. I don't think some of you have been around long enough to really make statements like this. (Ignoring the obvious logical and statistical errors such a claim makes). Enjoy what you have, the vore community is larger and more involved than ever before, and it's mostly thanks to Eka's Portal.

[Reaverbot]

No, actually, I think it's largely gotten a lot better. I mean, I've noticed 2 or 3 artists who are very subpar on this site who upload with alarming frequency but I've also seen the rise of plenty of other great ones, as well as technology improving so that already good ones get much better.

Edit: And I'd love an upvote button tbh

[Kirah]

My kinks have also gotten more specific (and sometimes even changed). I don't think this is the result of them changing, necessarily. I simply got exposed to more art over time, and I've been able to identify the exact things that I like, and the things I don't like.

Art also hasn't gotten worse, there's just more of it. And because of that, people who aren't quite as good will also be more inclined to upload their stuff here. But this is a good thing, as this helps people improve.

I don't think this site needs an upvote button, tbh.

[night22]

I'm glad someone came out and said this. It's true, but from what I've noticed, it's almost always an artist that appears to be underage and typically uses mspaint/pen paper with poor camera, and they almost always post a scribble daily. The daily update of chicken scratch is what gives the illusion of dropping quality to me.

[Jeschke]

Vore art getting worse?

I think you're just focusing too much on how there's so much more crappy art out there, since there's so much in general. There was crappy art 10 years ago too, y'know. Just not as much of it. Just like there was hardly as much good art/artists as well. I mean you'd be lucky if you found one thing every so often that pandered to x character/species you liked, or from x artist.

So I guess the thing you should do is.....not go to DA for vore art. Most of the stuff I see there that's of any decent quality, I've already seen on here or FA. Sometimes there's great stuff to be found, but that's after wading through a lot of the crappy stuff flooding DA. Even then, it's like "oh, here's a great gallery, I'll bookmark this for later and not rely on the search to give me anything".

[TW]

I think an upvote button isn't a very wise idea.

LEt me clarify, only for comments on forum threads for people to show they approve. Many places will "bump" an item or comment... That's all. Nothing to do with artwork.

[JackFrost]

I certainly don't think the quality of art has grown worse, but I have noticed that art on Eka's Portal has become absolutely dominated by F/F vore over the last few years. Many of the artists I regularly follow who used to do both F/M and F/F vore, have shifted almost exclusively to F/F, and F/M is becoming quite rare. As a person who likes F/M, this can be frustrating.

And so, in a weird kind of way, I found it easier to find the kind of vore I like back in early-to-mid noughties, when there were many specialist Yahoo vore groups. There's still plenty of F/M stuff on the web, but much of it is either old material that's been doing the rounds for years, lousy photo manips, premium paid-for content (because people have realised that there's a big market for this kind of thing), or piss-poor videos featuring bored models opening their mouths at the camera and woodenly reading from a script about how they are going to eat you.

[SwallowMe]

For me it is a matter trying to find art that fits the quality I'm looking for these days. I've thought and fantasized about a few forms of vore for around 17 years(since I was 13), and have been seriously looking on the internet for art and stories about it for around 16 years. Over that time, my thoughts have extremely narrowed on what I accept when it comes to quality. Went it comes to stories, around ten to eleven years ago, I just up and decided that stories that met with my preferences, writing style, and quality level weren't coming out fast enough, so I started writing my own stories.

These days, while I still sift through the art here a couple times a week, I only find maybe one or two things a week I like, if even that. Though it hasn't been too much of a problem for me. My imagination has become powerful enough that I can get the vast majority of my "fulfillment" from thinking up situations/scenarios/stories in my mind.

But, I do feel it does come from the over-saturation of genre/fetish, with it being more known, has led to more and more people creating things, which leads to more inexperienced or bad artist(people that look to be not trying to get better) entering into the community, so of course they start outnumbering the good and great ones, which gives the impression that vore art has become worse.

It is just that the amount of good and great artists to enter the community hasn't gone up all that much. Hypothetical example: Where we get one new good artist to pop up, we in turn also have 10 bad ones to pop up.

[Uke the Chosen]

To be fair in the circumstances of how we feel about art, if you're repulsed by the sight of something, it's not so much that it's bad, but there's a certain quality it has to meet in order to be good. Everyone has their preferences with visual stimulation but making a stick figure with boobs and calling it porn is where the "bad" quality is.

There's a difference between styles, and quality when it comes to artwork, and vore art is no exception to that. If it's bad, it's just plain bad, regardless of how "standardized" artwork quality can be. I honestly think some of the newer artwork isn't anywhere near the greats, and not all of it's bad, but if I don't like the way it looks, I won't look at it.

I do think it has gotten worse, but some of the people any of us think are bad are just starting out, so it's really based on a lot of things. Just because they get better doesn't mean the style will suit someone's tastes either. All in all, it's always going to be up to the person who perceives it to decide the quality of it in their mind.

[Hariken]

The "bad" artists post more and more while as the "good" artists post less and less and most of the time stop posting altogether.

Personally I like M/M mostly, or male predators in general but that's a rarity...

[MotherOfMonsters]

As a developing artist I've always felt like my standards for what I consider 'good' from other people grows with my own ability. When I first started working on vore art years ago my own work was absolutely rubbish, and I was completely amazed by others' art that I would consider mediocre today. So obviously my perspective on this is somewhat skewed.

That said, I'm of the opinion that as the vore community has grown, more and more people have taken to drawing it. A good number of there people are--as I was--far from being skilled artists, and it will take a good deal of time for them to develop the ability to make high quality work. However they have lots of enthusiasm from the freshness of the topic, and it typically takes them a shorter amount of time to make a picture than the many hours other artists put into a single image (and i'd bet better artists work far longer still).

The result is that new artists as a whole produce a LOT of material, and the content of the images/writing/whatever drives more traffic than they would otherwise get. While this means users have to dig through a lot more lower-quality material, I'm not entirely convinced it's a bad thing overall. Personally the extra attention my work got for being vorish really kept me making work over the years, and has contributed greatly to my improvement. I like to hope that the current generation of new artists will meet the same results.

[fixated1]

I think of the argument about music not being as good as it used to be. You remember the stuff you like. The wash of low quality stuff just doesn't get retained.

I look back five or ten years ago, and I certainly remember not having access to the amount of artists I do now.

[nogere24]

Vore art getting worse, that is a matter of perspective. It is true that there are a lot of low quality art out there but that is just because new artists that are inexperienced are competing against more talented and/or experienced ones for viewers. Someone once said "at first all you make is crap, overtime however you learn to make better crap and if you keep at it you'll make the best dam crap ever."

[Raiza]

Wow, I didn't expect to see so many people reply to this. It took a while, but I read each reply.

I guess some points were either the same as others, or very subjective. Somewhat the point just to gauge the community on what they think.

There is more quality works in the community, especially on Eka's Portal. There is also more artwork in general. DA I guess was never the best place, it just seemed to get more hidden gems in the past before the fetish was as "well known". I guess my changes have gotten more specific as well, depending on my mood. For sometimes I also find myself getting off to something and being like "did I really fap to that?" Not for it is messed up, but for the quality is lower than what I usually am interested in. I think the reason I felt this could have been a problem is that I find myself going back to other artworks already posted more often. I mean, I have done that anyway for obviously there is things you favorite (or should...I need to start favoriting things lol) and go back to. But I was usually able to find something new almost every day. Now it is only a few times a week.

I thank everyone who has posted here. I think what I've gathered is that though the good stuff is a lot better, the volume of work is also higher. Thus for every 1 thing you are into, there is an entire pages of things that do not, even on this site.

I didn't know how bad DA was at the community thing. I doubt that site will get better so I will just follow the people I discover on here.

(On an unrelated note. I haven't written anything since 2012 or so, but I am interested in perhaps opening a gallery here for what I have, and to continue doing so if people find interest in it. Which admin to I message for that?...Never got a clear answer for that likely due to my own derp >.<)

[ArcaneSigil]

I've visited a porn website, g.e-hentai.org, and searched vore on there, simply to see what else I could find besides the stuff here. A lot of the "vore" art on that website involves blowjobs. And nothing more. Meaning the only part of the body going into the mouth is the penis. That says to me that the people that see this artwork either don't understand what vore is and therefore think that a blowjob is considered vore, OR they understand what vore is and think a woman swallowing her husband/boyfriend's cum is vore.

In my personal opinion, that is not vore. That's foreplay/oral sex. VORE itself is when the entire body is engulfed in the mouth and swallowed down. To me that what it is.

[Raiza]

That is just bad tagging. I have seen actual vore on that site, but it is just series pulled from here or DA. Sometimes some artist that just have their own site etc. On that site I sometimes see tentacle porn being called vore. I guess sometimes it sorta is...just seems to be inaccurate.

[emperionsapien]

Art, no matter how crude, or how infantile in its form......is an expression
It is an expression of someone (as some form of artist) that took a minute or a week, as an amateur or as a pro illustrator, to post online.

No matter the intent or purpose, an uploader made the call to share it here, rather then keep it in a binder under the bed.

How the critique can be taken is up to that artist.
For someone to say......No....it is not worthy to grace my sight..........then what is?