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hey OP what the shit?

1) Swearing, editing my works, and worse of all, throwing heavy accusations around like there’s no consequences and being proud of it. I might not know who you are but I can tell you’re rude and ignorant based on first impression. You have already lost quite a bit of my default respect that I have for anyone before we even begin.

2) I read that you’re a PoC and most likely belong in the group of minorities from where you’re from. Now that’s something you and I have in common, but our biggest difference is, I don’t throw accusations lightly like you did me. 

3) Now let’s talk about art. I have seen people trying to explain to you how color, light, tonal values work, but you seem convinced that as long as it’s not a direct eye-dropped tone, it’s considered whitewashing. There’s a difference between giving a dark-skinned character a lighter shade due to lighting/mood and downright turning them white. And just for clarification, I generally favor pastel-like tones with saturated values at times, which usually resulting in a softer and brighter shade in the things I colored.

Let’s have a look at the official art:

We know that the creator is trying to convey an atmosphere. Marina is being colored close to a beige tone here, but we can tell she is still shades darker than Pearl, and naturally so. Everything here is meant to look soft and light to convey a sense of relax. 

Here’s another example of light and mood:

Notice the differences in how the creator colored in these two pieces. One is not more ‘right’ than the other. They’re just being depicted in different mood and settings, often times exaggerated to display a more dramatic effect.

2) Well if you’re a POC I would have expect for you to understand that it’s fucking wrong to brighten a dark skinned girl cause of racism and colorism! like hello? Being a POC doesn’t automatically make you free of whitewashing

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all your art with marina the same color so this lighting stuff is kinda thrown out the window. there’s no light source and its just making stuff whiter. also you just. admitting that you like pastel stuff when you could just. desaturate tones and keep the dark skin. plus you using the official splatfest artwork is bad cause its notorious for mostly always brightening Marina’s skin color.

4) Nice job blaming me for, supposedly, “hurting” the art community when all I’ve done is point out and fix you guys’ fuck ups and mistakes. Like. you could have just. said “oh shit sorry, I’ll fix it”, fix your drawings, and that’s it! instead of this long essay describing why you’re in the right.

you honestly do not get how colour theory works.

Some of the art you’ve been claiming as ‘whitewashing’ is a literal shift in lighting. The amount of time and effort it would take to perform an entire change in Marina’s shade would take another piece of art to be made entirely because of all the effects that go on in post processing. Like desaturation, filtering and/or flat shading that uses bases of a background.

These artists don’t have to exclusively use Marina’s 3D model all the time- flat colours on Splatfest art exists for a reason. Art is meant to be what the artist sees, and concieves throughout their perspective.

also strange how you’re pretty much a hypocrite with this here. does this mean we can say ‘pearl is 5 shades too dark’? of course not, because this is subjective.

Wow. Black Panther shatters box office records, and suddenly box office numbers don’t mean anything any more.

I drew out a strange dream I had 🐱

What a week.

I originally typed the following in the “tags” since that’s where I usually add my thoughts, but I wound up typing a lot, so here it is:

Maybe it’s because I grew up watching “Blues Brothers” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” over and over again, and hearing about WWII from older relatives who lived through it, but I have a lot of trouble getting into someone’s shoes if they think that it’s okay to march with Nazis. I know I’m not exactly going out on a limb declaring that I am very anti-Nazi and anti-fascist. And doing so will probably not upset anyone at the art school where I work. But I think it’s easy to be quiet. Especially when it’s something…

"the impression that MLK solved all our problems regarding racism"

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