Paper Demon Art and Writing Community

There has been a lot of confusion and disorganization among some of the galleries at PaperDemon. We are looking at restructuring our gallery system so that we can better organize artwork and releive a lot of the frustration felt by members and staff. We have known about this problem for a while but were unsure of the best way to resolve it so we'd like the members to help us out with any suggestions they have.

The primary galleries that we are struggling with are as follows:

Mythical Creatures
This gallery was originally intended for non-humanoid characters such as beasts but a lot of humanoid characters have ended up in here over the years. It is the most disorganized abomination on this site. We may just delete this gallery completely and start over with a fresh gallery.

Bishounen, Biseinen, Bishoujo
There is a lot of confusion around these terms and what they mean. We intend to get rid of these terms and change the gallery names. We only intend for people to select only one of these galleries but people often end up selecting two.

Kemonomimi, Anthro
Some people put anthros in kemo and kemo in anthros or they select both. We intend for people to select only one of these.

I propose that we pull all of these out of Aesthetic Concept/Genre and put them into new tabs and add a few new galleries:

• Age/Sex/Relationship tab
  • Age - (humanoids only)
    • children
    • teen male (14-19) - renamed from bishounen
    • teen female (14-19) - renamed from bishoujo
    • young adult male (20-40) - renamed from biseinen
    • young adult female (20-40) - new
    • hermaphrodite - new
    • middle aged (40-60) - new
    • elderly (60+) - new
  • Couples Relationships (humanoids only)
    • Male/Female - new
    • Female/Female - renamed from Shoujo-ai and Yuri
    • Male/Male - renamed from Shounen-ai and Yaoi
• Subject Matter tab
  • Abstract
  • Still Life
  • Landscape
  • Mecha
  • Humanoid / Bi-pedal
    • human - new
    • Elves - new
    • Angels, Good Spirits - new
    • Demons, Bad Spirits - new
    • Vampires - new
    • kemonomimi - does anyone have a non-japanese term to describe this?
    • Anthropomorphic
  • Half-human and Half-animal
    • centaurs - a gallery we might add later
    • nagas - a gallery we might add later
  • Creature
    • animals
    • beasts - renamed from mythical creatures
• Medium - new
  Note: i would want people to pick these galleries partly based on what their submission looks like. For example if they used the program Painter to make their submission and used the watercolor  brushes, they should pick the "watercolor" gallery even though its not done traditionally.
  • pencil/graphite - new
  • ink/wash - new
  • acrylic/oil paint - new
  • watercolor - new
  • digital 3d - (moved from genre)
  • digital 3d generated - (moved from genre)
  • sculpture - (moved from genre)
  • digital paint - new
  • markers - new
  • cell shaded - new
  • textiles - new requested
  • oekaki - (moved from genre)