UnderwoodART
Just Another Pink Pony
Much like
artist:
and editor:
, I suggest you consider designer:
for two reasons: to clearly show when an OC is not the artist’s, and to differentiate between multiple OCs of the same name. If you know an OC is a specific artist’s, you can search for those two tags already, but coming from fan art (particularly of an obscure character with a common name), you may struggle to find more of the correct OC. This might also be beneficial for those who are not artists and have only commissioned art of their OCs, giving a tag for all their designs to fall under.This might also be used to differentiate canon characters that are shared between generations (eg.
designer:lauren faust
), sort of like the “G_” tag, aside from G4 never being tagged. But that is not my intention for this tag, and I expect you wouldn’t want that either, so a point should be made that this is for OC fan-art only. You might need to add a description to make its use clear, but I don’t know if you can dynamically apply descriptions based on tag contents (anything with “designer:” in it).This tag also serves as the second half of what a In that regard, it would also be nice if you could watch multiple tags as one, like “oc+artist” or “artist+safe”, but I’m getting off topic.
oc:name (artist)
would achieve to split up common names. I think the two options for that are to either imply the oc:name
to all bracketed versions (so it doesn’t get lost in nuance), or remove all brackets and encourage people to search for “oc:name
, artist:name
” and “designer:name
”. But that’s a separate issue.