I'm about ready to upload a commission I got off Pixiv a little while ago for an OC I designed, but I wanted to ask if I tag her name (since she has one) or if character tags are only for "notable" characters, I guess?
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KetsubanMissingno said:
On that same subject, if I want to upload a commissioned image of my own original character with a unique name, would it be tagged as "character_(artist_name)," or "character_(my_name)" and the artist's name would be a separate tag?
It would get whatever name you're known by as its qualifier, as the owner of the character. I don't really like having tags for every one or two post OC no one's ever going to search for, but there's no rules against it, so it might as well be labeled correctly.
KetsubanMissingno said:
On that same subject, if I want to upload a commissioned image of my own original character with a unique name, would it be tagged as "character_(artist_name)," or "character_(my_name)" and the artist's name would be a separate tag?
The latter. Unless it's an artist-created OC, there's nothing stopping creators from commissioning a different artist to draw their OCs.
It also depends on how unique your OC's name is. The only reason we use qualifiers to begin with is to make sure people don't get two different things with the same name confused.
So OCs with names like jaana_kettu or western sounding names like sam_gardner all work without a qualifier because they are unique.
But if your OC's name is called something very common like Sakura or a color like Blue or Pink, then it does need a qualifier.
If you type your OC's name in the search box, and you don't see autocorrect showing similar names, or any suggestions at all, then it would be perfectly fine to tag your OC without a qualifier.
GabrielWB said:
It also depends on how unique your OC's name is. The only reason we use qualifiers to begin with is to make sure people don't get two different things with the same name confused.
So OCs with names like jaana_kettu or western sounding names like sam_gardner all work without a qualifier because they are unique.But if your OC's name is called something very common like Sakura or a color like Blue or Pink, then it does need a qualifier.
If you type your OC's name in the search box, and you don't see autocorrect showing similar names, or any suggestions at all, then it would be perfectly fine to tag your OC without a qualifier.
OC's should always have a qualifier, the unique name thing only applies to characters a person could actually expect to recognize (that is, ones belonging to copyrights). OC's end up looking like they should belong to something when you don't give them a qualifier, when they don't belong to anything but whoever created them.
blindVigil said:
OC's should always have a qualifier, the unique name thing only applies to characters a person could actually expect to recognize (that is, ones belonging to copyrights). OC's end up looking like they should belong to something when you don't give them a qualifier, when they don't belong to anything but whoever created them.
I see, then disregard my comment.
And oh boy do we have some cleaning up to do then.