A tag for solid colour images

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Yeah, I asked some people I know from when I used to work in videogame development and apparently they call them "flat colours" or I guess "flat color" if you're american.

I say we go with that. flat_color. I changed the two examples we have.

I thought that too at first, but then figured it was just that one looks artsy and the other just looks unfinished. But assuming it's unfinished is presumptuous. The artist may have finished their work in that style.

The only other difference is highly contrasting colours which detract attention from the line art. I think it's the same thing just used differently. I'm considering myself done with this until the mods come up with something if they feel they need to. Maybe they should have different tags, but that'd be largely up to personal interpretation.

Well, the one I pointed out is officially unfinished, as it's a screenshot of the drawing before the artist started the shading and effects process. So it's not really presumptuous to say that.

Anyway, I agree they're different things, but I also agree that it's not really worthwhile to develop 2 tags for these things, there's such a thing as overspecifying.

dragnfly said: But assuming it's unfinished is presumptuous. The artist may have finished their work in that style.

I generally only use the work_in_progress tag when I'm familiar with the artist and know that that's not the final version. Like frapowa.

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