Yavie said:
It says: Unapproved in three days
What does this mean exactly? I really would like to know what was wrong with these pictures so I don't make the same mistake in the future.
It means that 2 admins, 10 mods, and 19 janitors were given three days to review your image, and none of them liked it enough to greenlight it. Doesn't necessarily mean it's an objectively bad image, but we gotta have some standards around here - so we have a small team of (currently 31) people whose taste is trusted, that's all. Some of us don't have all that much time to go through the queue, so there might be really borderline cases where the only one or two people who might have approved it didn't happen to see it. That's what this thread is for.
That said, your images are nowhere near borderline, they're awful. Extreme artifacting and bad art in both cases.