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Hey Lovelies! This is the start of my written tutorial blog! I thought I'd do some stuff relevant to whatever I'm working on. I noticed sometimes people cant draw black characters in chibi form because they think that they need to keep every feature and not simplify it which has always been odd to me because like, you have to simplify it one way or another because it's a chibi. Anyways, here's how i've been doing it this past month on art fight!

What you want to keep

First you want to decide what you want to keep and what you want to remove. Whatever you keep you will simplify. No questions asked. In my case i dont like drawing noses on my chibi characters so I will nawt be keeping that! Instead i will be keeping lips and obviously most of everything else, im just gonna simplify it all

For this tutorial I have @sirteddy1987 ’s OC from Art fight. I'm starting with keeping a mental note of what I want to do. 

I want to remove the nose

I want to keep both the top and bottom lips (sometimes i remove the top and add it in rendering instead of linework)

Starting with a sketch I map down the pose of course and then go for the face. 

Making the OC still look the same without a nose

Sometimes when people draw other peoples OCs especially if the art style is very specific, you may look at it and think “they don't look the same at all” so how can we avoid this using a chibi style? Simple. You avoid it by making sure that the rest of the features correlate as closely as you can. 

In this case their Oc can be easily identified through eye shape, lip shape, hair and other accessories like glasses, i apply all of these features to my sketch and finally refine them on my linework

Finally, although not everyone will have the ability, I can fully refine the look using coloring! Of course it's always helpful to have color when you want to make your Black OC chibi, but we also want to be able to replicate what a character looks like without having to resort to color. 

Full YT video: https://youtu.be/FWtnBGZLhAg

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What is this thing that I am holding?

What is this deformity called?

Is it safe for me to handle it bare-handed at all?

What do I do with it right now?

And the communication difference is that autistic people will tend to occam's razor this by assuming you mean the most simple question. That's an apple, you're holding an apple. If they point at the abnormality and clarify what is THIS that is ON the apple? You may clarify what the deformity is called by its latin name. They ask you what one should do with the apples like this? Well the ancient Phoenicians used to throw them at people whom they thought-

At this point, someone who isn't used to communicating with autistic people is likely to give up and storm off mid-sentence in order to go find someone who is capable of answering the right question from context clues. And for the sake of the example here, the next person is the second type: a neurotypical person who sucks at communicating.

You see, neurotypical people don't assume you mean to ask the most immediate and obvious question, but assess what you are trying to ask from situational context clues. The ones who suck at communicating just suck at doing this. So they may see someone approach, dangling an apple with an abnormality cautiously by the stem, and asking "what is this?"

From knowing that the asker isn't familiar with apple abnormalities, and from the way they're dangling it by the stem like they're afraid to touch it at all, the second person being asked assumes that "what is this?" means "is this dangerous to people?" And will answer "oh it's harmless :)" and won't try to assess whether there could be additional follow-up questions they could also want answers to.

So the asker who still doesn't know what to do with that thing will have to wrangle themselves through trying to guess how to get the right answer to the question they were trying to ask, which is easiest to do by suggesting the answer that is probably wrong but the only one that feels plausible.

"So do I just put this in the same basket with the other apples, like it's a normal apple?"

The strategy is to answer all the questions at the same time while giving all the context

“Thats an apple with (name of the common abnormality and short description of what it does and how it forms and any consequences of eating it) its ok if you just touch it, Phoenicians used to throw them at people. but dont let it touch the other apples or it will ruin the whole harvest. I learned that the hard way (story time)”

For example, instead of asking "what is this" the apple holder can ask "this apple looks weird, do I put it with the others?"

See how easy that is? To ask more specifically than "what is this?" How much clearer it is?

Why does there need to be addee vagueness?? Why is it supposedly "no flaws or mistakes ever" when the process is *deliberately* slowed and worsened?

It's like putting on an item of clothing. A big loose shirt can fit many people even if it isn't a perfect fit, but having to answer an extremely specific question ("what is the right way to handle this apple that I am currently holding in my hand?") with a completely different answer ("that's a tennis ball") is like having someone toss you a shirt and you try to put it on without realising that it's actually a pair of skinny jeans.

"this apple looks weird, do i put it with the others?" could just as well be answered with "no, because that's not an apple, that's a really fucked up looking tennis ball". if the point of asking a question is getting a useful answer, then leaving room for the other person to guess your question incorrectly and answer a completely unrelated question is just wasting everyone's time. which you yourself clearly demonstrated in your example scenario in the first post.

(if you don't actually know what question you're trying to get answered, then your first task is figuring that out, rather than making someone else play guessing games with you.)

i also disagree with your point in general. there's a reason that emergency personnel are trained to ask very specific questions and be very clear in their communication, and it's because it is just objectively more effective and reliable.

of course if you've learned to be indirect, then unlearning that as an adult is gonna take work. if you've learned to be so indirect that you just fail to communicate anything useful, like your example person who can't figure out how to ask "hey what's up with this apple and can i put it with the others?" then unlearning that should probably be a pretty high priority.

at the end of the day, in your original post, the communication issue isn't caused by either of the people answering the questions, autistic or allistic, but by the asker who is failing to give the others enough information to be useful. so the one who is bad at communicating is actually the asker.

Still can't get myself to watch Wakanda Forever. Very hurt over Chadwick and don't wanna see his funeral. It's a shame that Tenoch turned out to be problematic bc that was one FINE ass man and I liked the idea behind Namor and showing the intercultural conflict between two great kingdoms of COLOR. Like, both groups was looking Regal and Powerful, I would have liked to see us combining those powers for solidarity but alas. I'll never find out.

Black Panther was fun! It was still a Marvel movie, so you know... Marvel... but what made it great was that it was a cultural phenomenon. We got to see Black greatness on screen in a sci fi way, we got to be the cool hero in the suit. I also really loved how it acknowledged what sort of resentment and pain that being torn from his people (and his father) caused N'Jadaka/Killmonger. You know the quote. "The child cast out from the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

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