#diverse character design

[nwarrior777]

bike girl

[ajsartstation]

Begging character designers to stop doing this.

[bixels]

Reminiscing about Little Witch Academia.

[creation-help]

Hey

- Make characters OTHER THAN VILLAINS fat too

- No not just the greedy or food loving ones

- Not just older people or moms

- Make more characters fat

- Like actually fat

- With double chins, bellies, thick arms, fat necks, rolls

- And let them be love interests or protagonists or in respected positions.

- Let them be portrayed as hot. While being fat yes

- Make more characters fat

[noisyghost]

im doing my yearly redraw of all my OC ref sheets because i will never be satisfied. anyway. here's josie! she bites :)

[siryouarebeingmocked]

For the record, vitiligo is estimated at 0.5 to 1%, worldwide. I grew up in a black-majority country, and I think I know one person who had it.

[avephelis]

just wanted to say it's really awesome seeing the positive reception to chunky mikey LOVE YOU ALL 🧡🧡

[fave-fix]

make that character fat. make that character have acne. make that character wear glasses. make that character have a big nose. make that character use crutches. make that character have crooked teeth. make that character use a wheelchair. make that character have an insulin monitor. make that character wear teeth braces. make that character poc. make that character mixed. make that character religious. make that character have a cane. make that character have a tooth gap. make that character wear a nicotine patch. make that character mave scars. make that character an amputee. make that character queer. make that character use aac. make that character have facial deformities. make that character use sign language. make that character gnc. make that character have yellow teeth. make that character have freckles. make that chatacter use finger splints. make that character have stretch marks. make that character have visible injection sites. make that character use joint braces. make that character have curly hair. make that character have piercings. make that character wear cultural clothing. make that character tattooed.

[ravangie]

The past two years of making art really showed me just how important representation is, how much it actually means to people.

So many women wouldn't have noticed the tiny details in my women that they recognise as their own; they wouldn't have made time to write to me how happy it made them feel, if it really wasn't a big deal

And they wouldn't have to thank the one artists who decides to portray them in her art, if representation in media really was diverse

[nightwings-blue]

no more buzzcut duke no more buzzcut duke no more buzzcut duke no more buzzcut duke

[crispyanonart]

So basically I roughly sketched all the Stardew Valley marriage candidates to create a height chart to reference for myself while drawing but then I colored them and they looked all rainbow and pretty so I decided to share 🥹

I think in game Sam is so tall because of his hair but I also believe that my husband is a big boi in general, so he and Elliott stand the tallest while Alex is a short buff king also idk why he's so fruity in this, let's say it's post coming out For the girlies Penny is canonically tiny, and Leah is our dream elf woman that lives in the woods

can you tell I have ships in mind

[nwarrior777]

diverse character designs in royal aesthetic. notes are open for other aesthetic suggestions

[catebees]

You said no one had asked, so if that's still true I think Cole and Velanna would both look really good in your style. To be fair everyone looks good in your style, I just think their vibes suit it quite a bit.

Forever in love with female characters that are a little spiky. They should make more of those

You can find Cole here!

[beddybites]

Why do you draw some Hashira's skin WAY more darker than they are? Like, Giyuu has pale skin and you draw it way way darker. Same with Mitsuri. Isn't that blackwashing?

oh lord i never got this ask on tumblr before. hi there anon

i understand the concerns but i must assure you there is no such thing as blackwashing

the reason i draw some hashira with darker skin tones is really just based on headcanons & what colors i think look good. theres nothing wrong with giving characters darker skin tones so long as you aren't erasing their race/culture in the process

(when you do the opposite-- like making a dark skinned character white-- that's an entirely different story. whitewashing comes from a place of hatred and serves to erase one's culture)

so for example, when it comes to mitsuri, i like to hc she's blasian. the main reason i hc this is because i have a blasian friend who LOVES mitsuri and its kinda my little way of expressing love for my friend through her fave character. but i see ppl draw her with a darker skin tone all the time and i think she's just gorgeous

when i give these characters darker skin tones i in no way erase the fact that they are asian and japanese. i just add to it so theres more diversity. i imagine this is the same for majority of artists even so, if you leave out the hcs and such, not all asian people are paper white. i may give characters tanner skin tones just because i think it looks nice. gyomei, genya, tanjiro, tengen, etc...

ultimately i do understand the concern and the confusion, but there's truly nothing wrong with darkening a character's skin tone-- what is wrong is recoloring people's artwork to lighten people's skin tones or make extremely racist jokes and comments regarding the dark skinned character

[thatchickmaya]

Commission illustration for settlemyerauthor on insta of her characters from her upcoming spicy romance book.

[cath-lic]

this character design should be considered an actual sin