Suggestion: Spoiler Hound

Hi there, guys.

After thinking about it (and being quite unsure myself about this idea I've come up with), I've decided to actually draw a page image myself. There shouldn't be any problem with it; after all, hey, if I can draw stuff, I might as well as use this ability to help the wiki. If this catches on, my subsequential panels made-just-for-the-wiki will all display a trope as a diorama.

Here's my first entry: Spoiler Hound.

(Caption: " Aerith being dead is common knowledge by now, but there are nastier spoilers waiting those seeking them. ")

URLs to use:

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SpoilerHoundForTvTropes_7880.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [- [[FinalFantasyVII Aerith]] being dead is [[ItWasHisSled common knowledge]] by now, but there are nastier spoilers waiting those seeking them. -] ]]

If you vote against this diorama, please make sure to point out any possible flaw you notice and everything that's a no-go for you when doing so. Thanks in advance for that.

Discuss.

edited 16th Oct '12 6:28:34 AM by AlexSora89

I'm not sure I see the trope. There's a dog there, and someone who died. Now, even if you know who she is, I still don't see how the dog is trying to look up spoilers, which is the trope to my understanding.

Good point. Also, everyone, remember that suggestions or commissions are also well accepted (for the latter, though, you should PM me, although I'm not sure I could please requests coming in large numbers).

Clock is set.

Scathing critique incoming!

Way too busy.

Style sloppy and ill-suited to page imagery. ^note Details: Can see dog's butt and face at the same time, awkward. Curvy hind leg is odd and there are no other examples of that, which makes it seem like an error. What is that in the upper-right, a flying duck-billed fish? Skeletons don't look that way, artistic license is one thing but that is extraordinarily inaccurate. If a corpse has decayed enough to show nothing but bare bone, the hair would be gone too... no skin, no hair. The staff in her hand, which should ostensibly be straight, is very crooked. The border of the base of the pedestal disappears after curving backwards at the edges. In short: gotta know "the rules" before you break them, or the flaws won't seem intentional... Picasso, for example, is known for cubism but was an extremely talented realist.

Unnecessary label on pedestal, circles (snow?) in the air, and spelling error look amatuerish.

Also, it's not common knowledge who that even is, let alone her specific fate in a particular storyline. Above criticisms are subjective, but that is an objective shortcoming: the image Does Not Show The Trope.

edited 16th Nov '12 5:43:25 PM by rodneyAnonymous

A lot of people are saying that the style doesn't matter.

Of course, you have other points.

edited 16th Nov '12 1:14:37 PM by KarjamP

Sorry to say, but style does matter. In that case, I can't see what's going on at all.

edited 16th Nov '12 3:42:49 PM by nitrokitty

Style absolutely matters.

"It's not objective" ≠ "it doesn't matter".

edited 16th Nov '12 5:48:49 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Yeah, that doesn't look like anything, let alone the trope.

Clock's up; locking up.