Extreme Detail

I think it'd be better to have a functional tag with a name that could use work, than leave it as a pool that continues to languish overall. At the very least, it's very easy and formalized to change the name later once people can think of something better than what we got here.

I have "absurdly cluttered composition" and "absurdly busy composition" as suggestions, too, as I still like those. But I just don't know, something feels missing...

The word "intricate" comes to mind. Don't think it's perfect but why not throw another into the ideal pool since we don't have a wonderful solution yet.

Something that will be intuitive to a random tagger who wasn't here for this feels like the most important (but probably also hardest) part. From that point of view I think "maximalist" is too non-obvious. I could get used to "cluttered" or "busy" but like many others I feel there should be something better.

fwiw my votes are based mostly off intuitiveness. cluttered and busy are words i could see myself coming up with naturally if i don't know the tag name, maximalist and intricate not so much, since they are much less common words.

BUR #41024 has been rejected.

mass update pool:20044 -> intricate_composition -pool:20044

Super Affection's suggestion.

only half joking here, but lol, what if it was just something like "too_many_details"

fairyboobles said:

only half joking here, but lol, what if it was just something like "too_many_details"

Don't hate it aside from the fact that I think the proper grammar would be too_much_detail

BUR #41293 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

mass update pool:20044 -> absurdly_detailed_composition -pool:20044

This came to my head while scrolling and I don't think we've proposed it yet?

Whatever we go with, I think ごちゃごちゃ can probably be an OtherName - stumbled on this one by accident. Will poke around to see if I can find any more.

Edit: へびつかいをさがせ, ごちゃ, ゴチャゴチャ, 雑然

If another site like Pixiv calls the concept that, then chances are good it'd make a good other name. Go for it.

Wikipedia's article on art composition describes it as clutter. I think clutter is a good descriptor.

For those curious, the other names Confetto found more or less translate to -
ごちゃごちゃ / ごちゃ / ゴチャゴチャ: onomatopoeia for messy/chaotic
へびつかいをさがせ: Find the hebitsukai definitely named after artist #46023
雑然: untidy / chaotic / messy (specifically for objects)

So none that would work for our purposes as a tag name probably, but all good candidates for translated tags.

Is there a tag or pool for images that drawn are drawn in great detail, without being in a photorealistic style? I know there's overlap with pool:20044 but as discussed, it's a different concept. I'm thinking of the opposite of the minimalist style that tries to simplify the image.

Knowledge_Seeker said:

If another site like Pixiv calls the concept that, then chances are good it'd make a good other name. Go for it.

Yeah, sorry for not clarifying, none of those were meant to be proposals as they're not really clear or befitting of a tag name on here. Just wanted to note OtherNames because I'm scatterbrained and would definitely forget them later.

notfrontloaded said:

Is there a tag or pool for images that drawn are drawn in great detail, without being in a photorealistic style? I know there's overlap with pool:20044 but as discussed, it's a different concept. I'm thinking of the opposite of the minimalist style that tries to simplify the image.

Realistic and photorealistic are two different tags, if that helps at all.

Confetto said:

Yeah, sorry for not clarifying, none of those were meant to be proposals as they're not really clear or befitting of a tag name on here. Just wanted to note OtherNames because I'm scatterbrained and would definitely forget them later.

Realistic and photorealistic are two different tags, if that helps at all.

Yes that helps but I think realistic is a subset of the tag I'm thinking of. It should include nonrealistic art as well.

notfrontloaded said:

Yes that helps but I think realistic is a subset of the tag I'm thinking of. It should include nonrealistic art as well.

I think the issue is that at that point it starts getting too broad. But we're getting off-topic to the thread.

Sudden brain blast I had a few days ago and been pondering on and off--would too many details/too much detail work?

I wouldn't be against "too much detail", personally. It's a decent name for this concept. My main worry is making sure it's clear it's about composition, otherwise we end up right back with "Extreme Detail".

Ylimegirl said:

Sudden brain blast I had a few days ago and been pondering on and off--would too many details/too much detail work?

lol we both already had the exact same thought a while ago if you scroll up. I'd vote in favor

fairyboobles said:

lol we both already had the exact same thought a while ago if you scroll up. I'd vote in favor

this is so embarrassing. though i searched to double-check that someone hadn't already suggested it when i literally already responded with the exact suggestion. rly good sign for me to go to bed for the night. or throw myself into the ocean. haven't decided yet.

too much detail/too many details is also what I had in mind. It aligns with the rest of our too_many_* tags and it's intuitive to search for. But that's also a problem, because it could be mistaken to mean stuff like too many cats or a generic tag for "too many objects", which it isn't really for. Perhaps the intricate composition or absurdly detailed composition proposed above are better.

Ylimegirl said:

Don't hate it aside from the fact that I think the proper grammar would be too_much_detail

I don't know about this. We're not tagging an object that's too detailed, we're tagging too many individually detailed things that are making the image cluttered.