Or maybe not, because it doesn't make sense. Same thing with "*_eyes".

Also: tag all dark skinned folk as "dark_skin" rather than "brown_skin" or the like.

Thank you!

also, army, navy, air force and all those disparate branches of the military should just go under the "military" tag

So we've been trying to retag all the "woman" posts as female.

Just chugging along...

"3d" or "cg" ?

"3D"

English and American spelling. Colour/color, s/z etc. I'd love to help out seeing as i have fuck all else to do but it seems too much effort learning a shit load of tags, yet if i dont will be creating more work for others if i tag pics slightly wrong.
I've never used a booru before. Is there a list of current tags anywhere so i can jsut go by those instead of making new ones?

Edit..

Ive tagget a pic 'Character_Portrait' and its coming up as the only pic tagged as that. I find it hard to believe there are no others tagged 'Character_Portrait'. What have i done wrong?

character portrait would be an incredibly common tag that it would be kind of useless.

then again maybe not.

A vast majority of the pics posted could possibly be tagged as "character_portrait" it'd be useless, it'd be like tagging various posts as "art" or "drawings".

Too much work, not worth it.

Not "just". We want varying levels of specificity. Give them both tags.

But how many pictures will be of actual discernible army branches?

Go ahead but personally I don't think it's needed.

Question: With all of the reaction images, magic cards, memes and such that have been showing up, couldn't one make the argument that "portrait" might actually be a useful tag? Search for "dwarf" and you end up with a decent amount of Dwarf Fortress lul (things like GENTLEMEN. variants) pictures.

On that note, how should we be characterizing things that are image macros, like the "meanwhile in X" series and shit? I've either just been avoiding them or throwing on the tag meme, but it doesn't seem like a good, functioning catchall for things that aren't related to in-game/in-setting art and drawfaggotry.

Maybe I'll get back to it later. My main project has been tagging humans as humans, and removing "tagme" from sufficiently tagged items, since that seems to be the two easiest things to work with right now.

I've been going through character portraits and using a system that covers how I would look for someone if I had a specific character in mind and wanted a portrait. So say I rolled up a human archer. I might do a search for "female human bow brown hair" or the like.


GENDER: male/female
RACE: human/orc/dwarf/elf/halfling/tiefling/demon/angel and so on and so forth
HAIR COLOR: black_hair, brown_hair, blonde_hair, etc
EYE COLOR: brown_eyes, blue_eyes, green_eyes, etc, usually nothing because the eyes aren't prominent.
ARCHETYPE INDICATOR: magic (if visible. Basically amounts to any kind of inexplicable glowing)
ARCHETYPE INDICATOR: armor (if present)
WEAPONS: sword (2nd tag for specific type, "rapier" "kopesh"), polearm (also "halberd" "pike" etc), firearm ("pistol," "rifle" etc), staff, mace, bow, whip
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: scar, tattoo, wings, horns, antlers, beard (mustache tagged as beard)
PICTURE TYPE: (don't use this one much) battle or portrait mostly.

I've just been using the image_macro and reaction_image tags.

Do you know there's an autotag option that allows you to have a ready made list of tags to work with whenever you post or edit an image?

You actually have a point with the portrait tag, so maybe "character_art"?

I'd separate mustache from beard.

And I've been having problems with what to tag obvious magic users whose type is not obvious; warlock, wizard, sorcerer, mage, cleric, priest, etc.?
Just "magic_user"?

I'd like to propose people use the tag "modern_fantasy" for pictures that show fantasy elements within a modern setting, for instance Shadowrun or Harry Potter and pictures like these:

http://grognard.booru.org/index....st&s=view&id=7705
http://grognard.booru.org/index....st&s=view&id=6654

Would there be something more intuitive to describe that?

Just a suggestion.

@tagfagette: I second Jive's use of the "meme"/"image_macro"/"reaction_image" tags. Anyone who wants to find character portraits and such can narrow down the tags with boolean search functions. (Also, if I may get unnecessarily technical, I think "khopesh" is the more common spelling.)


@Jive_Teej: The way I've been doing so far it is to tag all pictures of magical characters as "spellcaster" and then specifying applicable subtypes.

And "modern_fantasy" does seem to be the best descriptor for it, though they'd also need the "modern" tag due to the way the tag search works.

My two cents:

1. I think we need genre tags to help browsing the booru. Maybe "portrait" for portrait, "group_portrait" for group portrait, "battle" for battle, "meme"/"image_macro"/"reaction_image"/"motivator" etc. for unrelated things.

2. There's also a lot of pics with just swords or spaceships. They need genre tags, too, but what could those be? Maybe "no_characters"?

3. What if I can't identify the character's gender? E.g., a skeletal lich or smth like that. I guess we may need an "unknown_gender" tag.

4. Don't tag moustaches as beards! It's like tagging breasts as asses. Instead, I'd suggest you use "moustache" tag, and "facial_hair" as a more general tag.

5. Added an "ale_and_wenches" tag. Feel free to use it for all depictions of wenches with ale :)

Kind of a silly one, but I've been tagging Greenmarine drawfag pictures as "greemarine_(artist)", and only using the "greenmarine" tag on pictures of his actual avatar (the green space marine).

"greenmarine" and "greenmarine_(artist)":
http://grognard.booru.org/index....st&s=view&id=8190

"greenmarine_(artist)" only:
http://grognard.booru.org/index....t&s=view&id=11446

"greenmarine" only:
http://grognard.booru.org/index....t&s=view&id=11385

for images from things like Warhammer 40K and such, should we be tagging them only according to what the artist intent was? or should we tag them the way they would also look to someone who didn't know what the picture was from. for example http://grognard.booru.org/index....t&s=view&id=13931 this picture could easily look like a fantasy knight and demon thing. so should we post those kind of tags alongside the intended ones or just the intended ones? probably a dumb question but just wanted to make sure

I'd say from the point of view of someone who never has seen or heard about 40k before, but if it exists with identifiable elements of a game or series, tag that too. Something like that would be tagged with "Armor Demon 40k" ect ect. that one is tagged pretty ideally.

I think if you want it to be maximally useful to the greatest amount of people, it's good to consider all of a picture's potential uses just for the sake of showing up in searches. If someone doesn't want to use it for that, they can choose not to - but for someone else, it might really suit their needs - regardless of where the art originated from. Because, lets face it, your typical anime dark elf is not the same thing as a Forgotten Realms drow - but that doesn't stop the one from potentially being useful for someone who might be looking for either in any particular circumstance.

That being said, certain "sources" are going to be more easy to use in unintended settings than others (Most everything from D&D is going to be interchangeable with ANY other high-fantasy setting), and I think that cross-tagging images is a secondary priority - but it's hardly a bad thing to do in my opinion.