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Published: 2011-10-14 00:50:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 10874; Favourites: 643; Downloads: 0
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~ Because 99.87% of animes are.~ So are some artists who has dark skin
Maybe it's the fear of not getting exposure?
Which is not true.... skill and fanart gives you exposure!
I am not talking about furries or furry artists. I am not talking about race . This is for the artists who creates human characters with medium to dark shades of skin.
I couldn't find one like it, so I had to create one.
Feel free to use this in your journal, just fave it first.
Original template: [link]
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On a side note, when I created Animosity Sonata, their skin choice came after I had the story laid out. Originally their skin was going to be beet red because of the original color scheme
[link] But they're brown now
Animosity Sonata [link]
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I don't think they're afraid to, I just think it's not what they had in mind when they created their animes.
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I wonder why that is, perhaps because paleness= privileged status around the world.
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I doubt that's it, I'd assume it just didn't fit with their concept at the time.
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That makes it easier doesn't it? There is no bias towards dark skinned people in the real world at all.
(sarcasm)
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Well not everyone is biased. People tend to draw what fits the setting of their story or even just what they're used to or like. It's not like every artist/author has some racist agenda or something.
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might be fear of being ccalled racist i guess.
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Amen sister! I have plenty of dark skinned characters...not just because I'm dark skinned.
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I read this as "I'm not afraid of creating datk skinned OCs. O.O"
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Back when I had several anime/manga series ideas, there were definitely dark skinned characters. (I do recall that at least two were half black/half Japanese and looked sort of like an anime Kimora Lee Simmons, but maybe darker.) Variety is the spice of life.
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Can I get a "HELL YEAH!!" In the meantime I'll check your template link.
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My Persona Is Dark Skinned.
And I'm Very Proud To Say. c:
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My favorite OC is an african american man named James; he's about 46.
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I love my OCs for being extremely varied in all aspects. I'm on a Jewish kick right now. XD
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Hi I have been watching your deviant page since forever and rarely comment but I am a fan of yours I really do love Animosity Sontata the first time I saw it and it truly inspired me. Keep making such wonderful art.
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Thank you! 
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I ALWAYS make dark skinned OC in any story I do, even if they're a side character.
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I love anime, I'll say it, whatever...But I do agree that I think it'd be cool if there were characters with a different skin tone than the usual. I'm white but I've got more than one OC with a darker skin tone. There's nothing wrong with either light or dark skin tones, but variety is nice xD My only thinking may be that sometimes darker skin is harder to color (for me at least...I keep trying though xD I think my only major success was when I used a picture of BeyoncΓ© to select the different colors from xD) so they use lighter skin tones that have already been done a lot. Though, I would think that animation companies would have an easier time with that than someone like me. :/
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Um, Ok? should you be?
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I agree with you^^
I'm a traditional artist and I find it easy to draw ethnic characters^^ Because my characters are mostly ethnic, I find it hard to draw ones that arn't.
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I love, love, LOVE my dark skinned ocs! I need to draw them more often =/
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I like making dark skinned OCs
And i'm dark skinned artist
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Hell yeah :'D
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I know right? I usually try to draw my characters with diverse skin complexion.
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I feel the same way.
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Very nice stamp
Well, frankly speaking, I used not to create this kind of OCs since there are barely no black people in the place I live - so I didn't feel te need to create them. Now, as my mind is broaded, I think, it's good to have OCs of every race - especially when the universe I make is so varied.
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Glad to hear that! 
It's like you matured
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Heheh, I'd rather say, people tend to imagine things based on what they see - in the past, I didn't see black people often, so I wasn't creating this kind of OCs.
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I never saw racist towards dark-skinned characters...imo, its just that they are harder to do. XD imagine how hard it is to make things like [link]
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The link you posted is broken. Here's the correct posting of the link [link] .
That picture is not more difficult to draw because she has dark skin...it's more difficult to draw because she was drawn in realistic style. All realistic styles (no matter what the race of the person is that you're drawing) are harder to draw than simplified cartoon/anime styles.
For people who only know how to draw in simplified cartoon/anime styles, all they have to do is just draw a character in their normal style, and then just color the skin brown. Boom, that's it--instant dark-skinned character! It's not rocket science at all!
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Well, I still disagree.
I gave the example of that piece because it is traditional:3 and it is semi-realistic but still manga/anime styled(the feces of the face for example, would be wrong if this piece was realistic).
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The only response I'll give to this is something I've privately wondered about to myself for a long time:
Most people in the world have absolutely no problem at all coloring dark hair, dark eyes, dark anthros, dark monsters, dark creatures, dark chairs, dark tables, dark books, dark balls, dark clothes, etc., etc. But yet somehow, for some really odd reason, coloring dark human skin is the greatest, most supremely, impossibly difficult rocket-science mystery of all time......
Hmmmm....just something to think about.....
>>the feces of the face for example<<
I'm going to assume that you meant "features" instead of "feces"......
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I think you are exaggerating. It feels as if you were inclined to think the only possible reason why one does not make dark-skinned characters is because they have some kind of bias or something. Meh.
Ah, yes.
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Unfortunately, no, it's not an exaggeration at all. It's just a very simple question: why do so many people say that coloring human skin a dark color is so hard to do, yet coloring everything else in the world a dark color is very easy to do? Does that make sense to you at all?
>>It feels as if you were inclined to think the only possible reason why one does not make dark-skinned characters is because they have some kind of bias or something.<<
Heh-heh, you said it, not me. But anyways, I won't talk about what people's true reasons might be...I'm just saying that the false reasons are "it's too difficult to do," or "it's too impossible to do."
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Because coloring skin doesn't work in the same way other things such as clothes do? The human body requires a more sophisticated painting technique to achieve a good smoothness and depth. As of hair, it isn't easy to do either, because black is an impossible color to blend, therefore is harder to play with lights and shadows.
Though I never said it was easy to paint other things black, YOU said it.
No, you did. I said it is because it's harder, and it's not a bias, it's a fact, at least for me.
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Very good point. Its going to take influence, bravery and heart to get the diversity of characters that need to be out.
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Indeed. Unfortunately, every time we push the effort one step forward, people like `Gwendolyn12 always push it two steps back again. If she and others always continue to perpetuate these obnoxious, asinine arguments about the "extreme difficulty" of coloring dark human skin, and ignore all the help and proof that shows otherwise, then they will always (whether they are aware of this or not) contribute to the overall perpetuated conclusion that light skin is therefore "better" to make than dark skin.
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I'm not afraid either. I have a whole family branch of characters that are dark skinned people and the white branch of that family has African ancestry.
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Thanks for making this stamp! B.A.S.H Driven is going to grace this world one day hopefully.
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Why would you even be afraid? :\
Should'a put something like "I love making dark-skinned OC's" rather than, "not afraid," lmao.
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No, "NOT afraid" is a much better phrase to use, because it's a lot more provocative and expressive. It really gets the point of the issue across so much better.
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