The "drawings" category will cause you all kinds of trouble when sorting things. First people won't be sure whether you mean it as a catch-all in opposition to "manips" and they should put painted fanart in that category, even though those are not "drawings" in the narrow sense, and if it's not a catchall, you won't have anywhere to put paintings. Further, in many cases people won't be sure whether something is a "drawing" or a "painting", either because you can't tell the media, because it might be mixed media with drawn and painted parts, because it is all done digital and nobody could possibly say whether the line of pixels counts as drawn or painted.
ETA: For subdividing artworks, perhaps dA's system could give ideas. I find it less than ideal, but then it is hard to come up with a category tree, and at least it's an approach that works somewhat in practice.
Since currently most fanart seems to be zine covers and interior art (and that distinction would be an obvious way to cut the huge number of zine images into two), there probably is no need to set up many categories for the rest to subdivide those, but if you if you wanted to set up more diverse categories for fanart to encourage documenation, there could be some for the digital fanart categories like animated gifs and the like, generally these meme arts, fannish skins&themes (could go together with banners & wallpapers & mood/emoticon sets in a broader category of customization art), then virtual 3D art (poser and the like). Obviously painting and mixed media (I'd suggest not separating digital & traditional there because both are often mixed and it can be impossible to tell from just a digital copy how an artwork was made), drawings (though the problem I mentioned above of delineating it against painting remains), cartoons&comics (not as source fandom but as fanart medium), typographic art (like images made up from text and letter and such), papercraft & folding (like paper cut-out art, fannish origami), photography (like fans doing photos of action figures in funny places, photo comics, other fannish photography), manips (thoug again there is a sorting problem to draw boundaries between mixed media, collage and one kind of manip and digital painting and another kind of manip, especially when you have no meta info from the artist, but a Fanlore editor wants to archive and sort a piece fanart they've seen somewhere and then uploaded to the wiki), real 3D art (sculptures, miniatures, dioramas, models...). Then various artisan crafts, like costumery, dolls & plushies, jewelry, fibercrafts, cake designs...
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ETA: For subdividing artworks, perhaps dA's system could give ideas. I find it less than ideal, but then it is hard to come up with a category tree, and at least it's an approach that works somewhat in practice.
Since currently most fanart seems to be zine covers and interior art (and that distinction would be an obvious way to cut the huge number of zine images into two), there probably is no need to set up many categories for the rest to subdivide those, but if you if you wanted to set up more diverse categories for fanart to encourage documenation, there could be some for the digital fanart categories like animated gifs and the like, generally these meme arts, fannish skins&themes (could go together with banners & wallpapers & mood/emoticon sets in a broader category of customization art), then virtual 3D art (poser and the like). Obviously painting and mixed media (I'd suggest not separating digital & traditional there because both are often mixed and it can be impossible to tell from just a digital copy how an artwork was made), drawings (though the problem I mentioned above of delineating it against painting remains), cartoons&comics (not as source fandom but as fanart medium), typographic art (like images made up from text and letter and such), papercraft & folding (like paper cut-out art, fannish origami), photography (like fans doing photos of action figures in funny places, photo comics, other fannish photography), manips (thoug again there is a sorting problem to draw boundaries between mixed media, collage and one kind of manip and digital painting and another kind of manip, especially when you have no meta info from the artist, but a Fanlore editor wants to archive and sort a piece fanart they've seen somewhere and then uploaded to the wiki), real 3D art (sculptures, miniatures, dioramas, models...). Then various artisan crafts, like costumery, dolls & plushies, jewelry, fibercrafts, cake designs...