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About the categories.
These are the categories used to classify artwork on this site. Each execution can be assigned any combination of these categories, in order to best describe it.
The purpose of these categories is to enable the work to appear in the most appropriate theme galleries, and for it to appear in the most appropriate searches made with our search engine.
We are always open to suggestions for new categories, these can be made by contacting Categories Director elleeden.
About the category types:
Media refers to the physical means by which the artwork was created.
Theme is the genre or style of the artwork, in terms of it's feeling and purpose.
Subject refers to actual things depicted in the artwork.
Speciality is a special category type that is used for grouping of artwork that does not fit the other three categories, typically special-interest genres.
Media
| 3D CG: | Three-dimensional digitally rendered artworks/forms. | | Airbrush & Spray: | Airbrushing, spraypaint or similar | | Charcoal: | Charcoal | | Comic: | The art style found in comic books, manga, anime, animated films, etc | | Darkroom: | Creatively hand-developed photographs | | Digital imagery: | Two-dimensional imagery created predominantly on a computer. | | Digital manipulation: | Add your work to this category whenever there has been any significant digital post-processing on any other form of art. | | Digital painting: | Images painted digitally with mouse, tablet, or stylus. | | Drawing: | Images drawn by means of pencils, charcoal, crayons, pastels, chalk, pens, oil-sticks, markers, textas, etc. | | Fractals: | Artistic expression though mathematical patterns, usually generated by computer. | | Graphic design: | Design work for practical visual layouts, typically for communicating ideas or information. | | Painting: | Painted by means of (non-digital) brushwork. They can be made with ink, watercolours, acrylics, oils, etc.
NB: Oil-stick works must be placed in the 'Drawing' category. | | Photography: | Original photography, taken by you, on film or digital. | | Sculpture: | Three-dimensional pieces, which may include but are not restricted to mouldings, carvings, assemblages of recycled objects, and installations. | | Stock Images Used: | Check this if your work uses stock images. | | Text Art: | Images in which the artwork consists predominantly of text. | | Textile: | This may include wearables, sewn, woven, or knitted objects. | | Traditional printmaking: | Stencil, linographs, stamps, screenprinting, etc. (Not photographic) | | Vector: | Works made with Illustrator et al that are in the digitally rendered style of object-oriented vector graphics. | | Website design: | Layouts, concepts and design elements for websites. |
Theme
| Abstract: | Having no literal visual interpretation. | | Commercial: | Anything created for or predisposed to commercial application | | Conceptual: | Where the idea or concept is the basis for a pre-planned work which expresses or explores that idea. | | Fantasy: | Imagery set in alternate realities. Flights of fancy. | | Fashion & Style: | Images of fashion or otherwise stylish human imagery | | Gothic: | Combining sadness and beauty, themes of romance and death, dark and dramatic. | | Horror: | Images featuring nightmarish or gruesome themes - designed to incite fear or revulsion | | Humour: | Anything that is amusing by accident or design, or anything by Kennedy Rose. | | Industrial: | Harsh, dark imagery with industrial textures of heavy metal, rust and oil. Think Quake, Nine Inch Nail, etc. | | Philosophical: | Anything exploring or expressing philosophical concepts | | Political: | artwork containing political or social themes or messages. | | Pop Art: | Refers to the 50's/60's poster art style - think Warhol / Roy Lichtenstein | | Romance: | Themes of romantic love or poetic idealism | | Sci-Fi: | Anything portraying a dream of future technology or things beyond our own planet. | | Surreal: | Images that are fundamentally strange and illogical, in a dream-like manner. |
Subject
| Animals: | Animals, pets, wildlife, dinner | | Emotions: | Artwork that illustrates a particular emotion | | Industrial: | Works in which the focus is mechanical or industrial. | | Landscape: | Of or pertaining to exterior surrounds with focus on the environment. | | People: children: | Images with children. | | People: female: | Images featuring adult female people. | | People: male: | Images featuring adult male people. | | Plants: | Pictures of plants. Can we make it any more obvious? | | Portrait: | anything depicting an individual, with intent to convey their character | | Urban: | Of or pertaining to the urban, suburban, or city environment. |
Specialty
| Architectural: | Buildings as subject or creative media. | | Candid: | Unposed photographs of people in real-life settings. | | Cute: | Things that make you go: ^-^ | | Dance: | Artwork involving any form of dance - even the Elaine. | | Graffiti & Street-Art: | You know you know. | | Macro: | Images of extremely small details or objects, whether photographic or otherwise. They may include viewfindings. | | Make-up: | Images where make-up is a predominant factor in the artmaking process, or a focal point of the final image. | | Monochrome: | Anything that has no colour, just black, white, grey. Subtly-toned images are included here also. | | Music: | Imagery containing musical themes: musicians, bands, instruments, buskers, etc. | | Nude: | Nude imagery. Depiction or suggestion of sexual acts is not permitted in photographs. | | Self-portrait: | Self-explanatory | | Sexy: | I think we all know what this means... | | Tattoo: | Designs for tattoos, photos of tattoos, permanent or temporary. | | Transport: | Automobiles, trains, trams, bikes, planes, ships, submarines, et al... Roller-blades don't count. | | Work In Progress: | Anything not yet presentable as a finished piece. |
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