MK83, a few things:
- everybody starts in the beginners forums. as was stated, the good people get out of it quickly...... the bad ones stay there forever. that is just how things are done here, so the quality in the other forums is always good and up to the standards. (that is mainly why beginners: not the knowledge of ships, but that of the style and rules) in your case, the use of the correct template, background colour and the a bit lightened colours. when you know that, you might get out of it for the next set of drawings.
- I myself have nothing against using attachments, and I think some people are really pressing it too much. especially if those people are not moderators or admins.
- the reason we try to use as less as possible attachments: when the attachment space is entirely filled up, the mods will empty it by removing about all of it...... so your work will be lost. nobody likes his works to be lost, so it is adviced to use an external host, like photobucket, imageshack, dropbox or something similar.
hope this did help