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white washing was the shamalan movie that must not be named...
this is a very cute picture of baby korra--I LOVE IT~
Either way it's excellent and i love your style *u*
Wonderful job, as always
Some of those are really bad tutorials, mostly aren't even tutorials and those which are are really limited and are more like a shading guide or a color swatch palette (color-picking is one of the cheapest things you can do as an artist in most cases, and is seen with shame by a lot of artists) that doesn't explain skin and it's effects under different kinds of lightnings and ambientation. Also, I can't take seriously anyone who recommends this book: [link] the cover itself is a piece of shit full of WRONG.
Here, have an actual complete and professionally done tutorial on skin VS lighting, warm colors and cold colors: [link] which was completely ignored by the owners of DLOTB.
I have seen fanart of Korra or Katara where they have dark skin, but have very Caucasian features. These have not been called "whitewashed", but I see plenty of art like this where the skin color is a bit off (some is more off than others, I admit) but are drawn with correct Asian or Native American features. That seems less "incorrect" to me than someone not bothering to draw Korra as the right ethnicity, and just giving her dark skin. Please don't get me wrong, I know skin color is very important to people as well, but lighter skin isn't the only thing that makes someone "white".
I was always under the impression that whitewashing meant that a PoC was portrayed as/by a Caucasian person ( like what happened to Katara in that crappy live action movie of Avatar, which made me very angry).
Say a cartoon character had ebony skin. If an African American person who had brown instead of ebony skin was cast in a live action movie of this cartoon, would it be considered whitewashing?
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, I'm just honestly confused about it