Style ID thread?

[Anonymous No.4641780]

hey, i'm trying to better organize a large collection of pictures i've saved and want to segregate them based on types of rendering but i have no idea what a few of these (pic related) would be called, stylistically speaking.
>bad
oh gosh wow anon you must be hilarious in bed

seriously please help me. also if there's something you're not sure about then post it here and maybe someone can help you too.

[Anonymous No.4641783]

i think this is supposed to be from final fantasy but don't know if this is actually a style that has been used outside of ff or not.

[Anonymous No.4641786]

this might also be from ff, not sure. similar though.

[Anonymous No.4641795]

then there's things like this. the artist is nanomortis on da. pretty much everything he does looks like this but i didn't know what category this'd fall under.

[Anonymous No.4641797]

another example, same artist.

[Anonymous No.4641798]

then there's this kind of style. the artist is snowmarite on da. i don't know what it means when all the lines on a page seem to whirl together.

[Anonymous No.4641802]

another ex, same artist as above.

[Anonymous No.4641806]

this one kind of looks like the above but seems like a more refined technique overall. artist's name in file title.

[Anonymous No.4641814]

then there's this, which i don't believe is inked line for line. looks like some kind of program that created that effect but i do not know what this would be called either. forgot source.

[Anonymous No.4641823]

then there's this kind of thing, reminiscent of some old paintings depicting historical medieval warfare that i have saved. a lot of these that aren't historically done (classic paintings) seem to depict norse myths or european myths.

[Anonymous No.4641827]

>>4641823
what i'm talking about in regards to the war stuff. the reason i don't pair the 2 is because thematically they are different and i cannot stand that.

[Anonymous No.4641848]

not to mention that the war one is superior in its rendering and detail than the lady and the lake, though i'm quite sure it's not meant to be arthurian and is in fact just a lady sitting by a lake.

i have quite a bit of vintage fantasy/sci-fi too, but i am able to break those down into varying degrees of fantasy by classifying the use of colors and the substance as noblebright, grimdark, high fantasy, epic fantasy (distinguished from high by a more realistic realization of the subject matter, whereas the former usually seems to carry a brighter, more cartoony atmosphere), and several other definitions. i also typically segregate them by whether or not they've been done strictly in ink, gray scale, or pencil and re-classify them using the same aforementioned sub-categories within those previously stated parameters.

i'm overall satisfied with the degrees of separation among these, though some are of a noticeably higher quality than others, but i think that ultimately comes down to the skill level of the artist who made them. i would segregate by artists but unfortunately it's far too late to make that level of investment of time and energy when i'm boasting over 2 tbs of images. this is really just me trying to do some much needed spring cleaning and get a solid foundation of classification down for pictures that way i no longer have to rifle through thousands upon thousands of images attempting to remember where i put what.

[Anonymous No.4641864]

i considered classifying them by era but then realized i was not willing to become a scholar of art history, nor does modern art necessarily adhere to the time it has been created, with styles old and new mixing across the world, each one worthy of appreciation in their own right, so instead i try to just define everything by its composition, quality/polish, likeness, substance, and style trying to get the most satisfactory or sensible result.

i didn't choose to be autistic, believe me.

[Anonymous No.4641876]

>>4641786
>>4641783
>>4641780
Style is a meme, you're talking about voice, the voice is the artist. It's how art is supposed to be. You can talk about influences, I'm sure Amano was influenced heavily by Klimt and Mucha, but he's his own thing. There are also techniques involved, many of the things you posted are made in pen and ink so you'll see hatching and stippling.
It makes as much sense to go this deep into style taxonomy as with music genres, don't say it's post-jazz metalcore just name one of the 2 bands that play it.

[Anonymous No.4641885]

>>4641780
The first one is hatching.
>>4641795
This one looks like lineless or vector style

I have like 4k images saved of art i like and i organize it by medium and theme, i have traditional and anime traditional and then painting and illustrations. It's hell to organize it all so i pretty much just giva up and i prefeer to do it by artist name.

[Anonymous No.4641892]

this is also something i have in abundance and aside from calling it iconery i don't know what else to call it. a lot of things like this could double as tarot cards or something.
>>4641876
it's more or less just about organizing the overall visualizations by likeness. i really didn't want to go through the trouble of looking up the sources to many of the images i have because some were very obscure to begin with, some sources i know of no longer exist, etc. style may not have been the right word to use.
>>4641885
i knew it was hatching but i wasn't sure it there was a word for that particular kind where is seems to bend away from a light source.
>lineless or vector
now that you mention it it does resemble vectors. may be a good place to stick it.
>by name
i started to do that only several years ago. most of the pictures i saved prior to that realization of doing it by artist are unfortunately randomly or wrongly named, or i renamed them in a vain, futile effort to organize them on a prior occasion. i feel remorseful about not having the foresight to collect by name sooner but what's done is done.

i suppose i can simply organize the ones that i do know by name and drop their respective folders into another folder containing similar works.

[Anonymous No.4641940]

>>4641780
That's an etching, not a drawing, anon. You make it by etching on a board and scratching a metallic plate, covering it in ink and running it out through a presser.

[Anonymous No.4641958]

>>4641940
really? i had no idea. how can you tell?

[Anonymous No.4642032]

>>4641958
I've done etching and wood-block printing when I was in the fine arts academy. You can usually tell by the type of crosshatching and how the darker areas are developed. Super elaborate inks with really heavy line build-up is usually an etching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik4FlTrqaRE
Here's how it's done. A lot of early book print drawings were etches. It's a pretty fun craft. Rembrandt did a lot of etchings that are a bit less "tight" than the example you posted if you're curious to see more.

I'm 95% sure >>4641806 is an etching as well, since it's a bit easier to keep a consistent line-weight in pattern with etching.

[Anonymous No.4642103]

>>4642032
I wonder how Norman Lindsay did his hatching work, they are so complex

[Anonymous No.4642801]

>>4642032
thank you for your input. that was actually very helpful and informative. i have no formal education of art so i lack the verbiage to properly apply to these sorts of things. it's why i came here.

well, that's a new perspective for me to consider.

[Anonymous No.4642845]

Very good thread. Thanks OP. Can you post more glowladyes?

[Anonymous No.4642940]

just so i'm clear on this, something like this is also an etching, right?

[Anonymous No.4642946]

>>4641848
I’d buy this NES JRPG and be very disappointed

[Anonymous No.4642993]

>>4642940
Harry O. Morris. Not to be rude but if you really have terabytes worth of images you should probably just sift through your collection and cherry pick the ones presently relevant to your interests into a single folder. It is going to cost you a lot of time to do otherwise.

[Anonymous No.4643088]

>>4642940
Yep, this is an etching as well.

[Anonymous No.4645287]

>>4643088
thanks for the help.
>>4642993
i really wanted to get everything organized at once so i could avoid having to do the tedious process of going through everything more than once. if it's all localized i would spend only a fraction of the time going through things at the expense of a bit more time now.

[Anonymous No.4645777]

>>4641780
This is simply late 19th-early 20th century illustrative style. Some call it “decadent era” (in France). Check up Odilon Redon, Felicien Ropps and Kublin.