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DestanOfTheShadows β€” My Skin Does Not Define Me

Published: 2016-03-31 02:17:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 174; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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Description Some vent art after dealing with a ton of racism at school today.
People in my class were insistent that multi-racial people (which I happen to be) are NOT human beings because they are not "pure". Got into a nice fight about that and ended up unable to go to class I was so upset.

Destan is there for two reasons, 1) because he has snow white skin (deathly, unnatural) with a lot of scars, so he gets judged by his skin (and appearance in general) a lot and 2) he's my alter-ego.
The person on the left is me how I look right now.

Actually like how this turned out. It's always my emotional art that I like the most. Go figure.


Materials Used: Bamboo Create Tablet, Manga Studio 5
Duration: No idea, wasn't timing, I think about 2-3hrs?
Art, Myself, and Destan Magale Β© MeΒ 
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Comments: 4

IndigoOfTheHeavens [2016-03-31 09:21:57 +0000 UTC]

This is AMAZINGLY beautiful I love it! Btw you have awesome flame-colored hair there in RL. xD Rock the fire! XD (YUSH >XD) I really love just looking at the subtle differences between one side and the other, the shape and length of the jaw, the face, the cheekbones, the ears, size and shape of the eyes, length of the neck and hair, where the nose and mouth is in relative to their own face and the other one's, and how similar and yet different the two sides of you are, the RL one and the alter-ego as you call it. I absolutely ADORE the hair shading, the flow of the lines, the eye shading, and ESPECIALLY the face and neck shading! <3 Something about the way you shaded Des' hair makes it look like its subtly glowing. (I agree with everything Indi says X3) It's beautifully done! Makes me almost want to do something similar for myself but I doubt I could be as good as you especially on digital lol. The way you did it made both sides look just radiantly beautiful, handsome, and gorgeous! <3 I love it. :3 <3 I love your style of drawing so much man! <3 When I see some of your old art in the sidebar, I think of how much you've grown and changed and become AWESOME and even MORE Awesome in the time that I've known you! <3 Thanks for sharing this with us and others. Sometimes its the vent art that's the best because you put the most emotion and passion into it and need something to distract you so you obsess over the details and it helps you calm down in the process - somewhat - and it pays off in the end with the end result. That's always the best!

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DestanOfTheShadows In reply to IndigoOfTheHeavens [2016-03-31 20:20:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I've been wanting to so something like this showing Des/RL Me in the same picture for a while now, but was never able to get the inspiration to do so until now when I thought it would be a good way to speak out against the racism at the same time as doing something I've wanted to do for a while

Thanks on the hair XD I've had it for a few months now - red just seems to stay in my hair very well lol XD - and am probably gonna keep it for a while yet. It's my fave color I've ever done and yeah I liked showing the difference. IRL I have a rounder shorter face (mostly by virtue of my being female here and not male as well), bigger nose, less defined cheekbones, obviously rounded human ears (duh XD), fuller lips (which I didn't show here because me and lips r not friends!), rounder eyes, and a shorter next (but that's also because Des is much taller then me IRL! XD) I love how it turned out though, showing how similar and yet very different both sides are for sure As I said, have been wanting to do something like this for a while now

Thanks again <3 I'm getting better at skin shading as time goes on, still hard for me but I'm beginning to like more and more how things turn out And hair shading is my thing <3 have that down to an art by now that is really easy for me and I love doing and like how it looks so I'm not too surprised that that turned out good LOL XD And aw thanks ^^ I would offer to draw something like this for you, however, I don't honestly know how you look IRL or in the Mind at this point in time and don't know the specific facial proportions enough to even be able to do something like that :/ I'm sure you could do something awesome with traditional drawing though, doesn't have to be digital and aw, thanks a lot man <3

Haha yeah my style has changed a lot over the years. I'm slowly starting to accept and like it, even though I'm still FAR from where I want to be -p- but it's something at least Have deff been getting better at the very least, so that's something and yes, exactly. Wish I didn't have to be in emotional duress though to make something look amazing like this -p-" oh well, I'll take what I can get ya know? *Shrugs*

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IndigoOfTheHeavens In reply to DestanOfTheShadows [2016-04-02 08:32:41 +0000 UTC]

Well you certainly inspired me to do something like that in the future sometime. And yeah it works wonderfully in speaking out against racism too!

That's awesome. XD *amused smirk at hearing that red stays in your hair very well and eyes the red part of Des' hair at the same time* (*GIGGLES for the same reason XD*) Gee I wonder why?~ XD Anyways red looks awesome on you. XD I loved seeing the difference too, especially to hear you talk about them more and to be sure that I did see all the differences right. xD Makes sense with the fuller lips too man. Lips are hard. >.<;; (Totally >.<;; ) Totally much taller there man LOL XD and it worked out so wonderfully. XD (YUSH I LOVE IT X3)

Yeah skin shading is hard but you're doing it so well! And yeah you're great at hair shading as we all know. XD <3 *Huggles* Haha yeah that's my feeling towards you as well since I don't know how you look IRL for certain and have only your references to go by for spirit form as well. I think it works out that we each stick to our own forms since we know those best. XD (And if all else fails both of you can just look into the mirror for your own faces IRL and in the mind if needed XD) Yeeeeup xD and well yeah I can always try the traditional drawing. I really DO need to get my butt into gear for Mina's pic because the combination of having to keep up with the doctors and dentist appointments as well as the other appointments and the feeling intimidated by what Mina asked me to do has been making me procrastinate so much that I haven't really even started yet. x.x *whine and then sighs* (Just start with one simple step INdi O.e print out that background pic she wants and then do the next step when you can O.e) Right xp- Again need to kick my butt into gear for that. -p- So that's my current priority lol. And just the truth man! <3

I'm so glad that you're slowly starting to accept and like your style! It's so distinctive and yet so wonderful and great at showing everything that's important in a pic and almost like "realistic manga" similar to what I do as well. xD Out and out realism is just too hard to do all the time and straight manga is a little too stylized I think for both of us lol. -p- Realistic manga is a good place to be but then again maybe I'm biased. XD Anyways practice always helps. I still wish I could get better at doing my brothers and family in a Light Family portrait because there's ALWAYS SOMETHING that looks wrong or off in their faces and I facedesk. -p- One of these days I swear one of these days. >.
Oh anyways since I recently doodled a pic of what I and my two RL friends might look like if we were in Zootopia [me the white tiger, a certain excitable short one being the cheetah, and the calmer taller one being the lioness] and I had to ask, did you see that movie yet? xD It's AWESOME X3 *Happy squeeeeeeee* What would you be? ouo I'm guessing a snow leopard or something like it? XD

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DestanOfTheShadows In reply to IndigoOfTheHeavens [2016-04-17 17:57:12 +0000 UTC]

Haha well that's awesome then XD and yeah :3

Har Har -p- Yes I know XD I redyed the red last week (exactly a week ago actually XD) and it's a nice deeper red now like the red in my bangs as Des So yay XD though now it looks like I'm bathing in the blood of my enemies every time I take a tub LOL! XD And thanks I'm planning on keeping the red for a long while yet, I like it a lot and haha yeah I figured describing them would help as well to show you it wasn't just changes in my drawing, it was deliberate in many parts Yeah >.<" I hate lips T.T least drawing them, and I have rather big ones - by virtue of my Haitian heritage - so -x-" haha yeah SO much taller XD I"m only 5'7" and he's 7'10" XDDDD that's an impressive height difference XD Thanks :3

Thanks I'm still working on it. I can do Des and Thes's skin easily because it's diffrent shades of black and white (opposite spectrum exactly actually LOL! XD) but human skin tones give me some problems because if getting the colors proper -p-" eventually I'll get it lol XD and haha yeah I like hair shading XD *hugs back* I thought of maybe trying to change the style sometimes but I like it so, if it aint broke, why fix it? and haha yeah XD I'm sure whenever you draw something like this it will be awesome XD and MEH good luck with that dude e.e sounds evil honestly and if I were you I would be procrastinating a ton on it as well e.e and I'm with you on procrastinating too though since I have 4 essays due next week and I haven't even STARTED any of them -x-" WOOPS. Planning on working on them once I finish replying to you here lol. GOod luck with your picture none the less O.e

HAHA yeah I'm wokring on it XD It's just how everything turns out so it's time to just accept that this is it and work on profecting it I suppose lol XD and thanks and hey your drawins are already fucking amazing dude so hushthere LOL! XD and yeah take what you can get indeed

LOL oh that's awesome dude XD I have seen that movie and it is AMAZING I love it and was shocked how deep its themes were O.o hmmmm what would I be *thinking* Probably a Snow Leopard honestly LOL! XD I LOVE those animals x3

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