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hamartia-grander · 10 months

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In all seriousness though. Luis Serra Navarro is not white. Your art of him should not be white. Your perception of him should not be white. You don't even have to know the history behind his last name to observe with your eyes that he is not white. He is noticeably darker than everyone else in the game, so colouring him lighter, or God forbid making him look as light as Leon and Ashley, is just an absolute lack of observational skills. Even if you are not willingly, actively choosing to whitewash him, your conditioning to whiten features or skin tones is absolutely at work here. Everyone is susceptible and subjected to it. You need to fix that.

#Genuinely: purposefully making a non white character's skin look darker than you THINK it is will truly help with this #Because a lot of the time their skin IS darker. Your perception of them is just warped.#I say this with utmost sincerity #I got lucky because I only started drawing fanart after I'd already seen so many people discuss whitewashing in art #But I know for a fact and I actively remember when the conditioning of my father and my environments #Led me to believe lighter skin was more desirable and/or warped my perception of a character's skin tone #Even subconsciously when I was actively trying to unlearn it #You have to stop #Luis Serra Navarro #Luis Serra #Luis Babygirl Serra #serennedy #resident evil #Resident evil 4 remake #Resident evil 4 #Re4 #Re4 remake #Re4r #serrenedy #serrennedy #leonluis

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