#no darker skinned character though..

[valleyoftheedolls]

i am not gay. i am not gay. i am not gay. i am not gay. i am not gay. i am not gay.

[cherry-cakee]

SORRY FOR DISAPPEARING GANG!!

school has been… a thing. A very time consuming thing. But since we got new epithet erased related content recently AND new sprites i decided to post two of my old drawings/sprite edits of lorelai with swapped poses (seen below)(click for better quality)

I unfortunately have to halt cookie run x ee content for now… but I have a backlog of a few ideas in the future! (Miitopia’d characters, art style analysis 2.0, and more) See you guys on the flipside again in maybe either a week or another month, who knows cause I dont!

[hychlorions]

i once thought i was misremembering how light kristoph's skin was because i saw someone say something like no one ever draws him as dark as he is in the game and i got worried i was drawing him too pale. so i tested it out. biggest surprise here is that phoenix (who i thought was pretty tan) is actually about the same value as apollo and kristoph

[fromtheseventhhell]

No offense but trans-masc/trans-man headcanons about Arya are so incorrect, I'm sorry. I can't even take them seriously considering this fandom's desire to separate Arya from girlhood/womanhood. I would love it if people would stop trying to divorce female characters (and real women) from their identities as women just because they aren't traditionally feminine.

If we're talking about actual good-faith interpretations, ones that actually work with how Arya is written, then trans-femme is a much better fit. Arya has never had the desire to be a boy or be seen as one, she is fiercely insistent on her identity as a girl and corrects people several times, she doesn't consider herself a "real" Lady because she's not one in the same way her mother and sister are (!!!), she has self-esteem issues from her looks and ability to perform feminine tasks, she actually spends time pretending to be a boy but never considers herself one or enjoys doing it, as time progresses she loses the ability to pass as a boy (!!!), etc. Look at the material!! There's so much there to discuss from that perspective! Arya's non-conformity and how that fits into a society with such strict gender norms is fascinating and there's a lot to discuss there, but calling her trans-masc is one of the laziest interpretations to come up with.

[deus-and-the-machina]

maybe this is a bit of a useless point to make but it does bother me sometimes that estinien’s skintone gets lightened quite a bit. I don’t necessarily blame fanartists for this bc some renders/cgi trailers make him look paler than his in game model, but I just wanted to draw some comparisons. now the lighting can vary quite a bit, but I tried finding pictures in multiple lightings for comparison

he looks a little washed out/not well lit in this image but you can still tell its the same skin tone

Furthermore, here’s him next to fourchenault, who we know is meant to be somewhat darker because his dad is louisoix.

Here they are in the endwalker trailer

I don’t think this but specifically is that bad, there’s still a notable contrast between his hair and skin tone even if it looks to be a bit more tinged pink than he usually is, but it’s still comparable to fourchenault. The render though is eeeeeeeh

his most prominent render isnt necessarily inaccurate but the lighting feels like its on full blast

The countdown art also DEFINITELY makes him look a little paler. it resembles the previous render

I also wanted to point out this happened to y'shtola too somewhat. look at her renders compared to her model compared to the end walker trailer

ike she is distinctly pinker/paler as well. im not sure how the process of making the cgi cutscenes works but im fairly sure they use different models, so I generally accept that they lost some specifics in translation. there are other differences people have pointed out such as Zenos' nose being shaped differently in the end walker trailer so its bound to happen.

Here are their figures too

yshtola has a skin tone somewhat accurate design but estinien is DEFINITELY lighter. his eyes are off too, being a weirdly deep blue when his canon eyes are grey, so again it can be chalked up to lost in translation aspects but its still disappointing to see

im not really trying to argue that estinien or yshtola aren't "white" or white passing by our standards, but they really aren't pale and its kind of weird that they often get lightened in trailers/renders in estinien's case. especially when I see so much fanart drawing estinien as super bone white pale because they're probably looking at the renders that pop up first online if you search and show his whole outfit for design reference.

I do really appreciate it when I see artists draw them darker, it makes me very happy.

[feruchemical]

i understand that with the themes of mistborn and the conditions of the skaa (read: chattle slavery) it would be a little? fucked up? to portray skaa with afrocentric features but honestly for the fact that scadrial is so Hot and Hot and Sun and Hot its weird most the characters are depicted with straight hair and paler skin. anyways all this to say one must imagine kelsier fortnite mistborn sunburnt to all hell and back

[teslathelame]

ohh...... oh, these are some great character designs....

[mayoiayasep]

yes i know that in anime having the characters be japanese is a default bc most of the time the anime is set in japan but would it really be too much to ask for darker skinned characters who aren't treated horribly/are shitty rep??? please???

[eliounora]

Omg I hope you're not overthinking this, because your art is wonderful, and I get you on shapes being hard!! and getting someone's likeness being hard, body type included, augh. It's scary when you know people can interpret Shapes Being Hard as you having the wrong image of a character, perhaps even out of maliciousness (!). Feel free to ignore the unsolicited "advice" of the rest of this ask, even delete the ask if I'm bothering you , I hope I'm not <3 But I think even if his tummy isn't visible you should make him just more broad in general. I get your intention soo much, but he definitely isn't broader on the shoulder area than the rest of his body I think, he's just broader in general than Crowley is, from any view. If you look at the photo where they're both standing together holding hands (I googled Aziraphale full body loll 😭) you can see that he's just... broad the whole way down if that makes sense. And if you look at the part where they're eating ice cream body swapped he looks broader from a more side view too. Anyway it's fine if this doesn't help at all either haha. Just wanted to say again that I love your art <3

I had to look up that picture of them holding hands immediately LMAOOOO anyway yes you're right, mr michael sheen has quite narrow shoulders and then the lines of his body sort of just go straight down from there hahaha! in my drawing I accidentally gave him more of a triangle body shape.

I moved the seam of his trousers here (in my slightly unfinished lineart left in my files) and that alone gives an impression of general broadness already! it'll be fun drawing aziraphale again in the future, one of the reasons I love drawing is little problem-solving moments like these!

[floralovebot]

i mean. the trix look good

[astro-b-o-y-d]

I think transmascs will truly have rights the day this website stops hailing Ozma as a trans woman icon and recognizes him for what he really was; a boy forced into detransitioning back into a girl because ‘it wasn’t honest for him to take the throne as a boy’ or whatever that bullshit was in the writing.

[magical-xirl-4]

I’m also still pissed about Candace. She’s a lovely and awesome character and I love her design except for you know, the fact that she’s supposed to be Nubian and looks like a tanned white woman

Update:

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN. She could’ve had this. They really just care about sales dont they

[myspecialinterest]

i want t redesign sharrkan and sphintus

give them my own flare, if you will

[mistyjessart]

got bored in class so have a doodle

[3motionally3xhausted]

Redesigning the Fentons!!

Hi yes this is for yet another Danny Phantom AU of mine it has nothing to do with the Apprenticeship AUs but unlike that batch I actually wanna turn this AU into a fic eventually once I get through a few other big projects I have *sobs*

Anyway individual files for each character under the cut along with my obligatory rambling about all the choices I made ;)

Jazz! Honestly, when I was a kid, I always thought she was 18 not 16 so it was kind of a shock when I started rewatching the show about a yr ago and heard that. Anyway, she's 17 in this AU but already moved out to college on a scholarship bc living in FentonWorks is kind of hell and she has that Older Sibling Guilt for leaving Danny there. For her clothes, I wanted it to be a mix of tactical and preppy.

Danny! (Fenton) The effects of FentonWorks hell is much more visible on Danny than Jazz because she got out of there as soon as she could. Because of that though, a lot of the chores in the lab got pushed onto Danny, without passing on many safety tips, like replacing the ecto-filtrator, cleaning contaminated tools, organizing ecto-weapons, etc. And because he doesn't know any better when it comes to safety, he has many symptoms of radiation poisoning: visually, this comes through in the discoloration/scarring on his skin (Jazz has some slight scarring on her face and hands as well), the cataract on his left eye, as well as burst blood vessels in that eye. For his clothes, I wanted them to look a bit ragged and worn through ripped seams, tears in the jeans, & duct tape around his shoe.

Danny! (Phantom) I don't actually have a lot to SAY about my choics, but I am really happy with it. There are still a few things. I wanted his hair as Fenton & Phantom to be different but still reminiscent of the simplistic rendering of the original show: Fenton is kind of timid so his hair falls over his face, & Phantom is more active/aggressive so his hair is pushed upward. The only other thing I want to comment on is his skin: it's kind of about how I usually stylize Phantom (and I mentioned this when I redesigned Dani a while back) but a "healthy" Phantom in my style would have more bright cyan skin and an unhealthy Phantom has a more dull/zombie green. And lastly, as a ghost, the radiation poisoning kind of cleans up into more neat scarring rather than the muddy/bleeding look as Fenton.

Maddie! Now, I'm gonna be honest, real vulnerable here,... I hate Maddie's canon haircut. It's ugly, I'm not sorry. But I can modify it, so it's fine: now it's curlier, a bit darker, and has a few grey streaks bc she's a genius and constantly pulling long working hours. And, it didn't come across as much as I wanted, but she's got some biceps, strong lady. Now, I'm not really sure why, but I wanted to shift the color of her and Jack's jumpsuit, making hers much more desaturated.

Jack! Big guy. I don't have many thoughts about him either, but I did give him glasses and some stubble for a little bit more dad energy (?) I mainly changed the color of his jumpsuit bc Orange is an extremely hard color for me to render for some reason, so now it's the classic Hazard Yellow. Finally, the most notable difference is the coat I put on him for a bit more scientist energy but my main reasoning for it is the potential visual of him being an absolute tank jumping from overhead with the ghost gauntlets and his coat flapping behind him. Also, I generally like the idea of him presenting himself as a big, dumb teddy-bear, always smiling, but completely unhinged below that facade: dropping the smile or not while towering over you in shadow. Wild imagery.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Do not count on any actual steps towards creating this fic in the near future, it's just on my mind right now, but I NEED to finish my other projects first 🙏🙏🙏 That said, I will (eventually) get around to a handful more character redesigns for this AU including: Vlad, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Paulina, and maybe Lancer & Dash

[gikairan]

I brought some Nice paper, but theres not a huge amount of it and that gives me some kind of paralysis to use it....

So I cut a sheet up into trading card sized pieces and theoretically i can turn 1 sheet of a4 into 9 whole arts!! In reality, I got 4 pieces of art out of it and 1 piece i still havent actually drawn on....