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cole | 28 | they/she just your average bitch with unhealthy obsessions over unnecessarily complicated media

[robcham]

DIY>AI

[polkadotmotmot]

Fawzi Baalbaki - Because of the War, 2025 - Acrylic on canvas

[blackcharacterpolls]

Its not even the matter of finding a good tutorial online I feel is the issue with some of these responses. If you are someone on your art journey and overall have difficulty drawing EVERYONE'S hair, that's one thing. But even if you don't have a tutorial per say to show you can draw Black hair, its odd you don't apply your knowledge of drawing straight hair and apply that logic onto afro-textured hair. And I mean this in a way where, we all have a hairline, we all part our hair to certain degrees, you know what a braid is, you know how to SHAPE hair. What's so difficult of adding textures? Often I see people say it takes too long to get the curls in. That's silly considering most of yall don't draw every strand of straight hair either. So what's not clicking?

EXACTLYYYY THANK YOU

This idea that drawing textured hair somehow takes more time or is uniquely more difficult is way too engrained in the art community, when its really just a matter of drawing shapes in different sizes, lengths and patterns, like it's not hard at all and seeing all of these responses to "No black characters aren't harder, BUT-"

Is just like, come on yall, it doesn't matter what skill level your at, textured hair is very easy to draw.

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[girltown420]

have a good rest of ur scroll & i hope u live a long life & i hope all ur dreams come true farewell

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[jorth]

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

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[bebsi-cola]

as a certified woman-lover I understand the instinct to say there's no such thing as a woman who isn't beautiful or all women are amazing etc. and i take a lot of comfort in loving women. and beauty is in the eye of the beholder etc. we can't say anyone is objectively attractive or not and "ugly" is a loaded worded riddled with a history of fatphobia, racism, and ableism. that all being said, all women don't have to be beautiful to deserve respect. women are allowed to be "ugly". if we hinge our respect for women solely on how much we love them then what happens when there are women we don't find attractive or nice or pleasant or who actually have no desire to be seen as attractive either. what about grandma? idgaf if you find old women hot, what about their unpaid labour? their rights??

[nitpickspot]

We all have our tastes. But women should be beautiful to you in, like, a universal philsoophical sense

[bebsi-cola]

but they're not. sometimes women are bigots. or blonde. there is no one on this god forsaken earth that thinks all women are beautiful, but even if there was, that is entirely, fully, completely separate from the personhood of women and the respect they deserve as human beings, and the rights they deserve as people, and the work that needs to be put into combating misogyny. we will literally never be free until beauty is not a factor in how we treat people

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[pmamtraveller]

Don't eat me by Otama-shimai

[jeluto]

some cute girls.

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