I absolutely love your art, it makes me very happy to see as a queer WoC. Also fuck I love scars on girls they're SO GOOD!! That said though, I have a question, purely out of curiosity. I see a lot of artists on here draw white characters as black/dif shades of brown. So my question is, why? When you draw, say, Camilla, do you think "Imma make her a black goddess" or do you just do it unconsciously bc you're used to it? I'd love to know, and I'd love to see more of it ♡
And hum, I first started drawing white characters darker back in my RWBY days, where I followed people who were both ‘if this character is supposed to represent oppressed people, their skintone should follow it’ with Blake, and some PoC who just saw themselves in characters and gave them a darker skintone, with Pyrrha.
And I saw how happy it made people to connect through characters who looked more like them, and I wanted to add to that happiness (it Also was because I absolutely love color contrasts, and making more people dark-skinned gave me a lot more color palettes to play around with bc drawing everyone the same shade of white is fucking boring.) And it also fit in very well with my philosophy to keep how I draw characters as diverse and interesting and different from each other as I can learn to do. I hate that generic anime crap.
Now with some FE characters, say like, Azura and Olivia, I go for canon reasons. Olivia is from Ferox, Basilio and Flavia are black, follows she should be too. For Azura, Valla is partially based on India, and once I learned that fact I started making her darker (also because I saw other people do it before, and blue/brown/white is one of my favorite color schemes).
With Camilla…well it was definitely a conscious choice, but I think with her it mostly followed the ‘oh light purple and dark brown look super nice together’ idea
Sometimes there’s a reason connected to where they are from, sometimes it’s just ‘ooo colors’, but yeah! That’s why I make the decisions I do