General Tag Discussion

@Background Pony #5A75  
If we’re going to be that specific and prescriptivist about that tag, then traditional paintings should be excluded as well and put under their own tag…

@saby  
I doubt traditional Paintings are done digitally…

@TexasUberAlles  
you’re basically arguing for craft to be aliased into traditional art.
 
All craft are made with traditional materials such as glass, metal, paper, wood, fabric, etc.
 
The tag is for distinguishing images drawn on a computer from physically rendered images.

@Background Pony #5A75  

 
On that note, pen drawing, marker drawing, chalk drawing, crayon drawing and ink drawing should all imply traditional art, which they currently do not.
 
@saby  
@cheezedoodle  
It seems obvious to me that paintings would be included as traditional art – they’re 2d art drawn or painted on a physical medium with physical pigments, which seems the point of the tag. Watercolor and oil painting both imply traditional art already, after all.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I’m with you. All of those deserve the traditional art tag.

@cheezedoodle  
Is this where we separate sculpting by medium to craft sculpture (play-dough, Fimo, SuperSculpey, papier mache, felted and sewed sculptures, cast plastics/resin, Lego, any medium requiring adhesives of physical joinery to hold together etc), and traditional sculpture (clay, gypsum, cast metals, wood, stone, concrete, bone etc.)?
 
Also what is the classification of glasswork like Tiffany, or physical mosaic (assuming traditional materials)?
 
How about embroidery and tapestry weaving? Crafts or “fine arts”? Does it matter how rough or fine the detail level is? Materials used?

@saby  
How is that even a logical progression.

@LightningBolt  
Well the discussion seemed to be going into a place. And it’s probably good to define some actual guidelines to tagging physically manifest media now that we’re already talking about an aspect of it.

 
Does this merit the ‘semi-grimdark’ rating?

wardrobe malfunction seems to be misused quite a lot (perhaps due to ambiguous description?); there’s a separate tag for when the clothes never even had a chance of covering the character up.

@saby  

 
I updated the short description to “Unintentional exposure through clothing tearing or breaking.” as it was awfully vague. Does that sound better to you?
 
 
@Zaknel  
No.
 
 
@Frustration in Excelsis  
Now that I’ve had time to think more, I believe I set that list at work while on my cell phone several months ago and intended to come back, add more, and finish the implications, but completely forgot.

I’m thinking ink drawing and pen drawing maybe should be aliased?
 
This has also spawned some new tags:
 
Crayon effect for drawings done digitally that use a crayon brush to simulate crayon drawings  
Chalk effect same as above but chalk  
Watercolor effect you get the drill

@cheezedoodle  
re:wardrobe malfunction  
It should also cover (heh) cases where the clothing isn’t damaged or even the wrong size, just unexpectedly falling off, shifting, moving, or rolling up to cover areas it was supposed to cover. Think a shirt button opening on its own, or a short skirt staying ‘pulled up’ after being crumpled during a long sit, and exposing garters or even a buttock.

@saby  
Updated short and long descriptions with some additional links.

@Napsack  
I think I’d call it questionable, same as an implied insertion.
 
Also would like some opinions on figurine vs. sculpture

@cheezedoodle  
“figurine” should include mass produced things & “sculpture” shouldn’t.

@OneOverTwo  
Seconded.

@OneOverTwo  
Sounds as good a distinction as any to me.
 
Of course, regardless of the decision made, going back and correcting the tagging on every now-mistagged image is going to be a pain. Probably necessary, though – those are pretty messy tags, as is.

What about figure versus figurine?

@LightningBolt  
I think they should be aliased with each other.

@mjangelvortex  
Me too.

@LightningBolt  
They appear to be largely synonymous, and I think I’d point the alias towards “figurine” as “figure” could be a little ambiguous. Beyond the figurine/sculpture mixup, there are a couple images in “figure” that don’t seem to fit any such definition - instead, using it as a synonym for full-body illustrations. They’re in an extremely slim minority, though, and should probably be moved to another tag.