#black edit

It's pretty rare to find games with Black characters, so seeing this one, and seeing that the Black girl (named Alice) is the protagonist, got me really excited for it, and seeing her lively and pretty skintone made me believe for a moment that her design as a Black character was good.

BUT, then I saw her dad..

and it Completely broke that illusion for me. Seeing this supposed Black man with such a Terrible and Lazy design made it obvious to me that they didn't try or care, he's some generic anime man that they bucket-tool-painted brown.. AND with blue eyes.

It was so jarring that it made me realize Alice's design isn't that good either, I was settling down for a mediocre design when I had nobody else to compare her to.

So I made a like 20 minutes edit of her! It's not perfect, but it cemented for me that they could've tried A BIT more with her design, but they chose Not to (not even for the game's protagonist -_-).

Happy birthday Mrs. Ice! This year I decided to blast some more Studio Ghibli characters with the melanin beam- Ashitaka and San from Princess Mononoke. They were a lot of fun to do, and I've already got more SG characters on the roster (I was going to do a whole bunch more for the Melanin Beam Challenge but time makes fools of us all). Anyway, I hope you have a lovely birthday, and thanks for all you do here!

Here is my fourth submission for @creatingblackcharacters ‘s Melanin Beam Challenge: it’s Luz Noceda! Sorry I don’t have much more aside from an unfinished sketch of Willow, and also another unfinished sketch. I really wanted to do more before today but my motivation to draw anything that wasn’t my OCs PLUMMETED out of nowhere. I’ll definitely finish those sketches, it just won’t be today 💔 sorry Ice, I tried

Anyways, here’s the main bad boy herself! I had a lot of fun rendering her! I think I had the most fun drawing the second expression, just cus I love drawing cartoonishly exaggerated faces in comparison to my otherwise simply detailed style lol