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Talia and Damian commission

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I know I haven't posted here in a while, but I hope you will support the new projects I'm working on. The maribat fandom is what got me back into art and inspired me to start working on comics. I'm so thankful to all of you.

I still hope to sometimes draw for this fandom, but for now, I will be mainly working on more original projects.

Sorry for not posting in a while.

I ended up being too busy with family stuff and concerts to do anymore ink sketches like I planned to.

With the holidays and other projects I have planned I will not be posting daily ink sketches regularly. I might still do one every once in a while when I have free time, but not the 5 a week that I was doing. I will start back up doing 5 a week with the start of the new year.

One of the reasons for this decision is I really want to mostly finish the first part of a project I have been working on. The project I've been working on is drawing comics introducing mine and my sisters rwby ocs. The intro are structured similarly to the rwby trailers. Each character getting there own comic showing fighting styles and some back story before they go to school. If this goes well I would love to make more story for our characters. My goal for the end of the year is to finish the first characters intro: Chanson leader of team cinm.

Even though I won't be posting much, i do plan on streaming most of my progress. I will post anytime I am streaming, and i would love for you to join.

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✨ Ghouls and Gangs!!!✨

I'm so glad to be posting my pieces for Ghosts, Legacies, and CPS, by @aceface98 and @karnia-queen. It's such a wonderful fic and it's been (and still is) a blast working on these drawings!!

The initial idea was to have a title card-like cover art, but then I lost track of that and went for a book cover! I did go back to make it more title-cardy after though, so you have two versions!

Thank you to the mods of @dpxdcbigbang for organizing this event!

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wait. if jason died and came back during pride month does that make him gay jesus?????

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Traditional background:

Digital background:

First test to decide if I should color my rwby oc comic digitally or traditionally with copic markers.

I feel I didn't do as well as I could with these, so I will be creating more art to help decide. Maybe some mock covers.

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I was thinking about streaming later and wanted to see what people think I should color.

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Tag Team Tournament 2024

We're back for another year of good old fashioned fandom fun! This year the Tag Team Tournament will take place from Sunday, July 28th - Saturday, August 3rd, so make sure to save the date and get started on your projects early!

We've got some fun things planned this year, but we're also making some changes to how we're running the event this year! For the full rules and guidelines, check out our Event Guide Document, now newly revised for 2024! The short version is that we've changed some of our scoring to remove certain exploitable flaws that were exposed last year, clarified submission guidelines, added new ways to earn bonus points, and changed our team lineup!

Now, last year we had a very popular Shipping Bracket to determine who our eighth team would be, but this year we decided that we wanted out lead up event to better help you all prepare for this year's event. Also, @nottesilhouette asked really, really nicely for last year's runner up ship to get a chance in the Tournament, and how could we tell them no?

This year, our teams are:

Seamless Spin - Cassandra Cain x Marinette Dupain-Cheng 3's Company - Any Poly Ship Rare Flair - Any Ship Without A Team Lucky Shot - Roy Harper x Marinette Dupain-Cheng Spandex Flex - Dick Grayson x Marinette Dupain-Cheng Art Couple - Damian Wayne x Marinette Dupain-Cheng Java Junkies - Tim Drake x Marinette Dupain-Cheng Book Design - Jason Todd x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

We are super excited for this year's Tag Team Tournament, and we hope that you're excited too! To help you get in the creative spirit, and to hopefully inspire you with ideas, @newdog14 assembled playlists for each of our teams, which will be published one by one over the next few months. She got the idea for this after assisting with this year's Jasonette July Calendar Playlist, organized by @mochegato & @izanae, which we also encourage you to participate in.

Oh, and one more thing. We have heard that for some folks, particularly those who are responsible for small humans, the summertime is apparently not filled with an abundance for free time. So we thought we'd go ahead and give you all a little more to go on for your prep work this year, and as such we'll be publishing all of our prompts early this year, so be sure to keep an eye on our blog on Sundays going forward.

Many thanks to @newdog14, @nottesilhouette, and @izanae for their hard work in preparing this event. From brainstorming prompts to designing team logos to coding spreadsheets to tolerating certain people's tyrannical playlist standards, there's a lot of work that goes into an event this big! And thank you to everyone who has participated in this event, and to those who plan to participate this year. We could never pull this off without you!

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Dani in oversized pink dress. I wanted to draw some fanart for the fic, 'Hey, Who is Damian?'. It's nice to have Dani play a bigger part in demon twins au.

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assassins Adrian

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Just a reminder for everyone that Talia al ghul is not a rapist. That storyline was not only extremely ooc for her but the guy who wrote it (Morrison) admitted they knew nothing of her character and they retconned it themselves. Retconned means it’s no longer canon. Unfortunately this was only retconned after the dcau, so it may be canon in that universe but it is not her character. It was also an extremely racist depiction and was motivated by the rise of Islamophobia after 9/11. Talia is also not a selfish character who only cares about herself. On multiple occasions she has betrayed Ra’s for Bruce and cares deeply for Damian.

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Crimson Bengal

Wanted to draw my Marinette from my maribat au

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This is the post about Damian Wayne being whitewashed that will probably go ignored because it dives deeper than pointing at a Damian Wayne and urging DC to draw him darker. I don’t particularly care about likes but I feel like we should emphasize whitewashing in detail and not just pointing at Damian and being like “he should be darker than this!”

What is whitewashing?

Whitewashing is deeper than the color of someones skin, it boils down to the way they act, are perceived and is portayed over all. If you take away a character’s cultural roots in any way then you are whitewashing them.

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Let’s start with The Brave & The Bold. No one talks about this but this is a perfect example of whitewashing. In the Brave & The Bold writers took Damian Wayne and just emphasized the Wayne in his name. Damian’s culture did not fit their narrative so they entirely erased it.

Bruce Wayne married Selina Kyle and after had a baby, no, that baby was not Helena. It was Damian. Damian Wayne and only Wayne. He had no connection to Talia whatsoever. They erased Talia and the Al Ghuls entirely from Damian’s story.

This is an example of how his whitewashing goes deeper than skin. He’s now entirely white, drawn as white and lives as a white kid. They changed the way he acted, was perceived and portrayed.

Then because that’s not enough. His identity was a very blatant copy of Tim Drake. He takes Tim Drake’s suit, he takes Tim Drake’s backstory and he takes Tim Drake’s iconic catchphrases, its extremely jarring. This is another example of whitewashing, taking away his personality and to fit a white character.

The Tim Drake curse.

Another example of whitewashing would be the continuous attempt to make Damian Wayne more relatable by watering down his personality and making him reflect Tim Drake. Tim Drake was Robin for so long and so loved that it has a lasting effect on other characters as well. As long as Damian wears that “R” that was celebrated at its highest when the character wearing it was fair skinned then I doubt he’ll ever escape this. This is whitewashing because erasing his personality is also erasing his roots on the most basic level. In his stories, he becomes an average highschool student, pursues romances, indulges in feel good family fun, gets bullied, and wears suits and changes his hair once again to reflect Tim Drake. I don’t even have to mention how light he is.

The Three Horsemen of The Pale-skinned Apocalypse.

On the left we have a portrayel of Damian Wayne with light skin and blue eyes. Not only that but in this comic, they didn’t even get his culture right… the writer must had thought he was japanese… he’s not… he’s part Arabic and Chinese but genetically dominant and visually POC.

In the middle we have a Damian Wayne called “Ian.” It’s just Ian. This is an example of whitewashing because if you didn’t know; Talia named Damian after the word “Damianos” which means ‘to tame’. To erase his cultural roots in his name then you are whitewashing him. And Jonathan Kent, a visually and socially white character regardless of the immigrant-kryptonian allegory, did not get this treatment. Those characters seem to never get this treatment as we know.

On the right, we have Damian’s newest installation, the one DC twisted their comically large spoon into their Witch’s caucasian cauldron and used their magic to zap Damian with that Tim Drake curse. Damian’s eyes are green, not grey or blue and his hair is thicker than that, not straight and thin. Nor does he act like this. This is an example of whitewashing. You are changing how he acts, is perceived and portayed.

How to avoid this?

It’s simple actually, just exercise the way he was originally portayed which sadly has never been wrote exactly right since he was first introduced but as you can see:

This Damian Al Ghul-Wayne flaunts his culture in the way he dresses and acts. This Damian Al Ghul-Wayne speaks his native languages when it’s convenient to him. This Damian Al Ghul-Wayne is connected to Talia and grew up in the league of Assassins. This Damian Al Ghul-Wayne made his own Robin suit.

He has brown skin, he has soft green eyes, and look at his monolids, his hair is also thick and his face is dinstinctly shaped as well. The easiest way is just to portay Damian as he is; An Arabic-Chinese kid.

For example, this artist made a conscious decision to study the way Damian Wayne looks before drawing him. Even adding distinct features like a nose bump which we never get to really see from him.

Why does whitewashing happen?

The idea that a person of colors’ features and culture are not appealing to the audience and needs to be altered to fit the norm in order to be palatable.

In fandom.

If you portray Selina Kyle as Damian’s mother then you are whitewashing him. If you change the way he acts in fanfiction because you don’t like it then you are whitewashing him. If you draw Damian Wayne lighter than what he’s supposed to be than you are whitewashing him. If you demonize the Al Ghuls and put the batboys in place of them then you are whitewashing him. If you change the meaning of Robin for him then you are whitewashing him (this does not include reverse robin AU’s for example) and if you make him do any action that’d align him with what an American kid is supposed to be doing then you are whitewashing him. But let’s say you make a AU where the point is his personality is different or his upbringing is different, this is not whitewashing, this is having fun. To have an initial subconscious mental bias when it comes to a POC character is different, entirely different.

And about other races… Damian Wayne is one of the few Arabic-chinese portrayels in Media, please do not alter this, even if its to make him any other variant of POC. Damian Wayne is Damian Wayne and if that’s not interesting enough for you then use a different character that is that race. <- do not fight me on this.

We as a collective should focus on portaying Damian Wayne. It’s deeper than skin. It’s crazy because its really not that complex…

In conclusion, be mindful of why you were invited to this Damian Wayne function…

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i officially love robin....

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Sketched this for the prompt headline during maribat March, but only finished it last week.

My fav rare pair, Luka x Tim