I'm interested in what you guys might think of an 'art style imitation' tag. By that, I mean unofficial images or fanart that closely resemble the art style of the official source material, intentionally or not.

I don't know about you, but when searching rule 34, I try to find images that look as close to the official art style as possible, because I prefer that way beyond personalized art styles.

Some examples...
https://e621.net/post/show/278878/101_dalmatians-animal_genitalia-balls-canine-canin
https://e621.net/post/show/199568/2012-animal_genitalia-armor-balls-big_penis-blue_e
And I have drawn my own artwork that tries to capture official styles as well.

So the tag means that images, sfw or nsfw, that try to be as faithful to the source material as possible. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it has to be close. This kind of tag would make it easier for people like myself to find these kinds of pictures amongst more personalized styles that artists use.

What do you think?

Sounds both interesting and massively futile. I'm game.

We've had this issue with MLP where the feral tag ended up with a sort of double meaning "show accurate", which obviously caused a bit of conflict at first with what would be unnatural positioning of the arms/legs (post #220930) but still fit better under feral than either anthro or the relatively unused semi-anthro.

This problem has been like enough solved for MLP, but shows with normally anthro characters don't really have this sort of convenience to fall back on. I don't know how this will work in practice, but it's something I think would be worth exploring. Just be aware that the larger the tag gets, the more likely it will be that the meaning becomes more lax or watered down over time (there will be more "borderline cases" that continually test the tags limits).

There is toony by the way. It isn't exactly what you are looking for but it might help for a few shows at least.

parasprite said:
... unnatural positioning of the arms/legs (post #220940) but still fit better under feral than either anthro or the relatively unused semi-anthro.

Don't see how that specific post would be problematic, they're anthros and also anthrofied pokémon. Anyway, just wanted to drop the anthrofied tag here, might be interesting.

Chessax said:
Don't see how that specific post would be problematic, they're anthros and also anthrofied pokémon. Anyway, just wanted to drop the anthrofied tag here, might be interesting.

Oops, wrong post. I actually meant post #220930

We have official_art so something official_art_imitation or something along that line (official_art_style looks a little too easy to misunderstand to me) should be pretty intuitive.

Well this has my Work Hazard Seal of Approval

What about when an artist mimics another artist?

James_Fritz does a lot of artist style studies.

Jeremy Bernal imitation:
post #613664 post #613699

Wolfy-Nail imitation:
post #620024

Miles-DF imitation:
post #619092

Also got some Nezumi imitations by other artists (Just two come to mind immediately):
post #516662 post #129751

chdgs said:
What about when an artist mimics another artist?

Harder to judge as influence sometimes goes in all directions. I think at the very least it should be a separate tag from the one in this thread.

[bump over aliases/implications]

Circeus said:
[bump over aliases/implications]

Which aliases/implications do you mean?

parasprite said:
Which aliases/implications do you mean?

Well, you've done admirable work slogging through a bunch of alias/implication suggestions, but that tends to push down relevant discussions like this fast ^_^;;