How did I know this “argument” would come up?
Here’s Kitty Pryde by John Byrne (first to draw her), Allen Milgrom, Alen Davis, Mary Wilshire, Paul Smith, Jackson Guice, John Romita Jr, Brett Blevins, etc etc etc it is really not hard to go on because it’s almost as if Kitty Pryde was designed with and used to consistently have curly hair, and maybe it’s not a perm on a 13 year old, maybe she is a Jewish girl who just naturally has curly hair like a lot of Jewish people, who happened to loose it around the same time she also forever lost her Star of David necklace:
Here’s Roberto by Bob McLeod (co-creator, first to draw him) in his first appearance (note the fancy colouring of the times for the graphic novel) and character designing sketch, you know, designing him with curls because he is half Black and takes after his father, and a few other artists from New Mutants vol 1; Mary Wilshire, Steve Leialoha and Jackson Guice:
Here’s some more art of Wanda Maximoff, a Jewish and Romani gal with all her beautiful curls that hey, somehow weren’t at all that hard to draw before LOL, by Jack Kirby (first to draw her, back of her head because that amazing headgear hides most of her hair), Rick Leonardi, Richard Howell and:
And Nightcrawler may not be a minority, unless you want to count blueness in the world of Marvel, but he’s frequently been coded as one, and he is still part of a larger scheme of curly haired characters loosing their curly hair, so I decided to include him. Also because he looks best with curly hair IMO. Here’s some Nightcrawler art by Dave Cockrum (co-creator, first to draw him) in his first appearance, Paul Smith, John Romita Jr and Alan Davis:
So tell me, why is it that curls are not too hard for all of these artists? And am I seriously supposed to believe that all these characters just have perms? Where the fuck would Nightcrawler go for a perm? And how could Wanda get and maintain one, when she grew up in poverty and constantly moving around? Or maybe, just maybe, not every damn character has straight hair, and maybe, just maybe, it’s the racism/antisemitism.
And if you struggle drawing different types of hair, then that means you should practice instead of just drawing them with straight hair because that’s easier for you, and means you don’t have to improve as an artist.
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