How to Draw (Black) Babies!

[_Izzy_]

@w1ckedsticky1983 omg bro im tryna go to sleep but i made WHOLE post on the Eurocentric thing with dark skin on my old account!!!! I hate this! oki i dont HATE it but its meaningless representation TvT fire emlblems solm prince and princess are a GREAT example of this (even tho i do loveee their designs either way TvT)

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@_Izzy_ uggsgshsu yesss dudeee,,, I remember seeing your post a while back that discussed something similar to this as well. I dunno, it's just always been so weird to me.

Another thing is when they try to blame it on someone's art style, which is just a horrible lazy excuse imo. Any race can fit into someone's art style if they at least try hard enough. I was actually thinking of making a topic a while back proving that you can, indeed, fit any ethnicity into an art style, but it seemed pretentious to me. I dunno.

I see this commonly with a lot of anime art styles, which I do understand that putting in ethnic features such as bigger noses and different hair textures might be difficult, but I feel like you can always just implement these features into the art style. I've seen plenty of example before, so it's really just a matter of effort. Making diverse characters just to be diverse just shows a lack of care people put into the designs because of obvious prejudice or racism, and most commonly both.

[_Izzy_]

@w1ckedsticky1983 omgg this!!!!

yall for anime and chibi artstyles its not that difficult

a good example is my pfp
its still a small line nose but i made the line go from side to side instead of up and down to look wider then other character noses

easy ahh solution, i do this for my chibis aswell
as for more detailed styles i just do a simplified version of the actual nose shape

drawing ppl of different races is genuinely not as painfully difficult as ppl lowkey be making it sound TvT

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@_Izzy_ I wish I could upvote this, but the fuckass update won't lemme lmao, but I do definitely agree with this!!

As for my chibi artistyle, I usually put a mini swirly line in the middle of their face where their nose bridge should be and a flatter line for their nose similarly to what you did when it comes to black characters. And as for white individuals, I typically do the same, except the squiggly line goes on their cheek and the nose line is slightly slanted. I'm probably gonna put a pic here in a lil bit as an example so you can see what I mean better,,,,

I'm horrible when it comes to articulating

[Yanderemenhera]

@w1ckedsticky1983 FINALLY SOMEONE AGREES i deadass hate it when people will draw anime and say they can't draw like, African American people or actual Japanese people =-= and it's "an artstyle" deadass pmo so badly

[_Izzy_]

@Yanderemenhera real shyt TvT

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@Yanderemenhera I physically start tweaking whenever I see an ignorant asshole start spouting bs like that 🤧🤧

[Yanderemenhera]

@w1ckedsticky1983 my Chibis are hevaliy stylized. as for the face just two massive eyes, a month and a [censored] head 💔 I get textured hair drawn, find a nice, pretty color for their skin and such and they look African American then for example, like you can do hevally stylized work and still get it to look right, I usually find a good ref image (I do this with literally everything a lot of the time not just people who aren't white) i'll post an image of a chibi girl soon but I'm busy rn

[w1ckedsticky1983]

i was busy for a bit, so i couldnt post these right away, but here are the ways that i draw chibi-ish characters of two different ethnicities for like the 2 people that wondered:

fun fact: these two dweebs are madly in love and are doomed 80s yaoi/hj

anyways, here are some other poc drawings that i have in somewhat different, but still really simple artstyles,

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if these look like the same 2 characters, its because they are LMFAO,, taylor and jeremy are my children zawg <3

[Yanderemenhera]

@w1ckedsticky1983 TS is so cool looking istg

[w1ckedsticky1983]

@Yanderemenhera thank you, brah 🥹