Six of Crows fan art I had an unexpected problem with this post on Instagram, so I’
Six of Crows fan art I had an unexpected problem with this post on Instagram, so I’m going to address it here too. Inej Ghafa is described as brown-skinned in the books, and I did my level best to make her skin tone look about as dark as Amita Suman’s (the actor they chose to play Inej in the TV show). To my eye, in this image, she’s got medium-brown skin. Unfortunately, some people are reading it as a white woman under heavy shadow, which was not my intention.The thing I’d like to talk about is this: one should assume good faith on the part of the creator. Remember that there is a real person behind all of the art you see on social media. I did not intentionally whitewash Inej; I thought her skin and face looked South Asian when I coloured and posted this. If you think I – or any other artist – got something wrong, then by all means point it out, but please do so in a friendly and respectful way, not it a “Wow, you suck, you’re such a racist” kind of way. I will be extra-mindful of this problem next time I post fan art of a person of colour, because representation in media is important. But art is difficult, as anyone who has tried it knows! I’m still learning :)*Incidentally, had I drawn Kaz in the same image, Inej’s skin would certainly read as brown. -- source link
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