Gallery changes

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I'm pretty confused by the recent restructuring, let me tell you.  I can empathise with the reasoning - the "Indy Art" section (regardless of the appropriateness of the name) was very large and unwieldy.  But who decided we needed a three-level hierarchy with multiple redundancy?

Let me break it down for you.  Let us take, for example, my Featured Deviation (www.deviantart.com/view/200708…).  Is it Digital/Drawings/People? Digital/Drawings/Sci-Fi?  Perhaps even Digital/Drawings/Anime, since it has a certain stylistic quality.  Not unlike a Digital/Drawings/Cartoons And Comics.  Hell, it came from a Fantasy game and it's kind of Fanart.  If it doesn't neatly fit into any of those, I suppose there's always Digital/Drawings/Miscellaneous.

But is it a Drawing?  I don't know, it's got a fair old bit of computer colouring and effects going on.  Maybe it's Miscellaneous after all (that's Digital/Miscellaneous, not Digital/Drawings/Miscellaneous).  Once I'm in there, of course, I've got the choice of Sci-Fi or People. (Or Fantasy, of course.  Ah, Miscellaneous beckons...)

I'm even tempted to dig my heel in and deny that it's "digital art".  I drew it with pencils and inks, FFS.  So I made the lightsabers glow and lit up the background, it's still my own hard-learned drawing sk1llz going down.  So I turn to the Traditional Art gallery, to be presented with the same old choices all over again.

I don't know.  /rant.  I'm sure I'll get over it.  It's just so bewildering - for browsing as well as submitting.  I, for one, will likely be browsing less due to the sheer number of galleries there now are.  Meh.
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