You know what, I feel like being mean today. Can we stop whitewashing Hax?
I've been seeing a startling amount of it come up in artworks in the recent months, and honestly, that isn't cool at all. That guy is Asian. He is from Hong Kong. It is whitewashing to depict him with a skin tone as pale as or paler than your designs for white runners. It is whitewashing if you choose to depict him with pale eyes. It is especially whitewashing to draw him like that without any other ethnically accurate traits.
Learn to draw people of color. I'm begging you. Or at least don't draw an openly Asian man with a skintone three shades off pure white.
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Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?
The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.
These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.
These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.
Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.
Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.
织金大峡谷zhijin daxiagu, guizhou province of china (photo by 拍照叶)
thinking about eyes in outfished. how they’re some of the first things to change about a person when they start growing in power (or otherwise experience other changes in their capacity for magic). how they’re a very visible marker that you’ve become something a little other (though still human. there’s a long way to go before you lose that). (do cosmetic contacts become more popular? food for thought.) sometimes the changes will start spilling over into hair, and maybe even become markings on skin, though that’s usually for extreme cases (or cases where this is explicitly part of the mechanism by which the user accesses magic)
on the other hand, the most dangerous ones tend to also be very normal looking… though appearance should never be the only thing used to judge someone’s threat level
anyways i need to get freakier with the eye designs. more unusual pupil shapes. more irregular iris patterns. more playing around with the sclera.