#especially dca artists

[empyrean-decay-god-dca]

Uh. I guess it’s worth using my limited influence to convince others to write reblogs. The DCA fandom has basically zero consistent ID writers except for my dear friend @chocolateseeds so if anyone’s an artist and wants to learn—

The core fundamental of image description is Object-Action-Context. Short description is better than none, so this helps you get the fundamentals down:

Object: Who or what is the main thing you’re focusing on in this image?

Action: What is happening in the image? What is the main subject doing?

Context: What’s the surroundings? What information should you add so the reader best understands the purpose of this image and why it was included?

Two very good guides about writing image descriptions

Formatting for alt text if you go that option (although IDs in the main body is always more accessible)

Image descriptions for art and fanart

Here’s a simple formula by mimzy-writing-online to get you started:

If you learned the fundamentals above, this is an amazing resource by a museum about the core principles of an ID, and making it lush and vivid but not overdone. Talks about spatial order of details, making a narrative. Good for people who have some practice with writing IDs