Agent 8′s first Splatfest.
hey OP what the shit?
also I fixed it
I’m not sure where to begin with this as I normally don’t post anything other than my art here, but I have seen enough from your side to prompt me into making this post, so I suppose we should start with the obvious:
1) Swearing, editing my works, and worse of all, throwing heavy accusations around like there’s no consequences and being proud of it. I might not know who you are but I can tell you’re rude and ignorant based on first impression. You have already lost quite a bit of my default respect that I have for anyone before we even begin.
2) I read that you’re a PoC and most likely belong in the group of minorities from where you’re from. Now that’s something you and I have in common, but our biggest difference is, I don’t throw accusations lightly like you did me.
3) Now let’s talk about art. I have seen people trying to explain to you how color, light, tonal values work, but you seem convinced that as long as it’s not a direct eye-dropped tone, it’s considered whitewashing. There’s a difference between giving a dark-skinned character a lighter shade due to lighting/mood and downright turning them white. And just for clarification, I generally favor pastel-like tones with saturated values at times, which usually resulting in a softer and brighter shade in the things I colored.
Let’s have a look at the official art:
We know that the creator is trying to convey an atmosphere. Marina is being colored close to a beige tone here, but we can tell she is still shades darker than Pearl, and naturally so. Everything here is meant to look soft and light to convey a sense of relax.
Here’s another example of light and mood:
Notice the differences in how the creator colored in these two pieces. One is not more ‘right’ than the other. They’re just being depicted in different mood and settings, often times exaggerated to display a more dramatic effect.
4) I’m not sure if you’re still with me, but I shall continue on. Your heart is at the right place and your cause is noble. Racism is a very bad thing and I should know, but I think you’re picking the wrong battle. You’re accusing people of something that isn’t intended, creating more enemies than allies, making the environment hostile for the wrong reasons. Your lack of understanding and proper knowledge in certain field has, frankly, caused more harm than help towards your goal and, indirectly, hurting the art community. I don’t bear any ill will towards you and I’m definitely not expecting an immediate change, but all I ask for is that you take a step back and think things through before you decide to throw down the gauntlet again.
1) I showed the proof right there that you edited the skin color to be lighter I’m accusing you of white whitewashing and I have the fucking evidence RIGHT there its not baseless. I have every fuckin right to edit art if its harmful and contributing to fucked up colorism plus I’m not claiming your art as mine, where am I saying that??
2) Well if you’re a POC I would have expect for you to understand that it’s fucking wrong to brighten a dark skinned girl cause of racism and colorism! like hello? Being a POC doesn’t automatically make you free of whitewashing
3)
all your art with marina the same color so this lighting stuff is kinda thrown out the window. there’s no light source and its just making stuff whiter. also you just. admitting that you like pastel stuff when you could just. desaturate tones and keep the dark skin. plus you using the official splatfest artwork is bad cause its notorious for mostly always brightening Marina’s skin color.
4) Nice job blaming me for, supposedly, “hurting” the art community when all I’ve done is point out and fix you guys’ fuck ups and mistakes. Like. you could have just. said “oh shit sorry, I’ll fix it”, fix your drawings, and that’s it! instead of this long essay describing why you’re in the right.
5) Also, thank you for not taking the time out to tell your followers to not bother me. cause I’ve been called names and shit from people in my inbox because YOU reblogged my stuff and your reach towards thousands of users lead them to treating me like shit. Good responsibility of your power!
Let me explain something:
you honestly do not get how colour theory works.
Some of the art you’ve been claiming as ‘whitewashing’ is a literal shift in lighting. The amount of time and effort it would take to perform an entire change in Marina’s shade would take another piece of art to be made entirely because of all the effects that go on in post processing. Like desaturation, filtering and/or flat shading that uses bases of a background.
These artists don’t have to exclusively use Marina’s 3D model all the time- flat colours on Splatfest art exists for a reason. Art is meant to be what the artist sees, and concieves throughout their perspective.
also strange how you’re pretty much a hypocrite with this here. does this mean we can say ‘pearl is 5 shades too dark’? of course not, because this is subjective.
all of this could have been avoided if you just didn’t make a fuss.
