In general another pet peeve of mine about whitewashing is how we're expected to believe that it was not visible to the artist.
Like, if it's maybe a tad bit lighter? Okay. I usually let that slide. God knows my mobile and my monitor look completely different, solutions ineffective so far. Maybe you're still learning skin tone vs background. Okay. I don't get upset at that.
But you had to go all the way to the other side of the color wheel for some of these whitewashings and you're gonna look me in my Black ass eyeballs and tell me you "couldn't tell". 😐 Especially when all the other colors are the exact same 😐 It's almost insulting lmao like do you really think I'm stupid enough to go for that, or are we all just socialized into knowing I'll be forced to 🤣
Visible difference, but, I can let slide with exceptions. ✅
😑 so I must truly look like Booboo the fool, to you. ❌
@creatingblackcharacters is it bad if i would still side eye the first one tho? especially since both fandom and media most especially has a history of lightening very dark skin characters to still be dark skin yet not as dark skin as canon shows them to be so their darkskin blackness can be more digestible? like making them bordering between darkskin and brown skin so they aren't fully darkskin but at the same time they can avoid the whitewashing discourse. i still feel like that's some form of darkskin erasure and it doesn't have to be pale to be darkskin erasure either cause i feel its kinda weird the same way irl darkskin people might feel its kinda weird if they never really see their shade rightfully drawn or put out in media or fandom spaces and its never their fully darkskin shade but its always the shade bordering between darkskin and brownskin. I feel like that also needs to be spoken about too because i feel its a way to make a very darkskin characters shade lighter while also avoiding cancellation of any kind like some form of microaggression if you will. Also as someone who draws on both laptop and phone the only difference between dark brown shades on laptop and phone is the saturation/boldness like for example a dull dark brown shade on a phone suddenly turning into a bright dark brown shade on a laptop so a drawing on laptop doesn't normally make the skin-tone closer to the white-ish hue part of the color scale. Don't get me wrong tho to anyone reading this you are free to disagree and it doesn't matter, just wanted to voice out my opinion is all.





















