#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 -_-).

For the Melanin Beam Challenge, I picked Purah because she's one of my favorite LoZ characters, and I thought it would be fun to make a Black redesign of her and give her coily hair. I also love eccentric scientist/engineer/inventor characters who are women, and I want more of them to be Black women. I realized while brainstorming designs that her canon design has a headband that matches the trim of her coat, but you can barely see it, so I decided to make it more prominent for the redesign. It was really fun to make!! Happy Birthday and thanks for all of your lessons!

Credit to @ezlo-x for the background texture! It's on their Ko-Fi 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

some art for @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge!!!

First up is Frieren since she was the first character i thought of for this! Inspired by some wonderful Black cosplayers on insta like hannah.sherlie

Then we got Hakumei and Mikochi-- this manga/anime is near and dear to my heart and it is an honor to melanin beam the girlies.

It's about both of them living together in a tree trunk going about their lives as tiny people. Mikochi is a seamstress who also makes various home goods for a local store, while Hakumei is a carpenter/handyman. Peak slice of life calming vibes.. but not many Black characters? There's background charas in a couple places they visit but no one on the main cast which is a shame! So they're getting the beam. (They're both meant to be Blasian here, with Hakumei still being ginger since that had, like, plot relevance)