Thirty Days of Fanart Meme: Day 16 & 17
First, sorry that the LJ crossposts of a couple of posts all came at once, and some out of order on top of that, but a due to the DDOS a later post was the first to get through, so then some of the earlier ones were crossposted after that on LJ. I hope LJ is back for good now. *crosses fingers*
16 - Headers - Do you post your art with a header describing it, a preview thumbnail, or both? If you use previews, do you crop to an intriguing part, or minimize the whole image?
I started out just with a description, then used proper header formatting and finally started to include previews. Though for drawbles I often use the previews only on my fanart blog and website, not in the journal posts. I always crop my previews to 120x120 px to keep it small (also because then it's all squares suitable for the layout on my own website), and try to pick the most interesting part of the image that still gives a good idea of the whole. I dislike cryptic crops in previews, but I like a good teaser crop better than just having the whole as a tiny thumbnail.
17 - Titles - Do you give titles to your art? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Mostly I just have titles if a fest or exchange asks for them. I'd like to title my art more often, mostly because I know it makes linking and bookmarking easier for others, but I have a really hard time to come up with anything suitable.
16 - Headers - Do you post your art with a header describing it, a preview thumbnail, or both? If you use previews, do you crop to an intriguing part, or minimize the whole image?
I started out just with a description, then used proper header formatting and finally started to include previews. Though for drawbles I often use the previews only on my fanart blog and website, not in the journal posts. I always crop my previews to 120x120 px to keep it small (also because then it's all squares suitable for the layout on my own website), and try to pick the most interesting part of the image that still gives a good idea of the whole. I dislike cryptic crops in previews, but I like a good teaser crop better than just having the whole as a tiny thumbnail.
17 - Titles - Do you give titles to your art? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Mostly I just have titles if a fest or exchange asks for them. I'd like to title my art more often, mostly because I know it makes linking and bookmarking easier for others, but I have a really hard time to come up with anything suitable.