Tagging Medium for {{traditional_media}}

I was thinking that maybe we might start tagging the various media that artists use in the works under traditional_media, and figured it would be worth discussing. Now, last I recall, the word was "Danbooru is an art site"; I've seen a number of artists mention coming here for inspiration, reference, etc.; we have pools of examples and tutorial images; and we have an increasing number of images.

From what I've seen, artists Pixiv and otherwise tend to note their medium so the information is there, if not usually all that relevant (we have thousands of images that were made with SAI or Photoshop). But for someone wanting to examine the applications of various graphite techniques on Danbooru, they'd presumably go for traditional_media monochrome and wade through almost a thousand images.

I suppose that's not terrible, in all reality (a good deal of that particular query is delightfully skilled, after all), but neither is it future-proof. What if there's 5000 instead of 975 returned? It's a foreseeable future. It also lacks granularity. What if they were looking for acrylic or printmaking instead?

For the record, I'll note that we have a tentative start for watercolours and ink (I'd like to take this opportunity to clean that up too, actually. My bad).

I'm all for this. After seeing posts tagged with watercolor I was pondering about other media tags as well. There's more than enough posts for substantial, say markers, graphite, or colored_pencils tags.

Semi-related, but are there also grounds for a mixed_media tag? It might be beneficial for images like post #478469 which are both traditionally drawn and employ sturdy use of digital as well so we have something to tag them with; though pure traditional_media images that employ the use of several media could possibly make things confusing. Thoughts?

I definitely would like that, and I've actually done a couple, outside of traditional_media, along the lines of photoshop_(medium) and mspaint_(medium). I stopped doing it only because it was hard to figure out most of the time (not that Pixiv almost always has medium tags, it would be a lot easier).

The idea is fine, but I imagine it's pretty hard to be sure many times, at least for some people (like me).

If you know for sure, go for it.

Excellent. Then before I screw with it, I'd just like to clear up is what these should be called. スラッシュ may have a decent idea with the parenthetical _(medium), though should that be for all of them or just the ones where it conflicts (i.e. ink)?

Astually, that may be unnecessary; I'm currently thinking something like the following on an as-needed basis:
graphite
coloured_pencil
ink_brush (drybrushed and non?)
ink_pen
marker (including ミリペン?）
ballpoint_pen
acrylic_paint
watercolour
gouache

All of these I believe I can recall seeing multiple of.

DschingisKhan said:
marker (including ミリペン?）

From what I gathered, millipen (ミリペン) is short for "millimeter pen," which is actually referring to the technical pen.

Yeah, _(medium) is probably only needed for stuff that's potentially conflicting, such as crayon.