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yellowis4happy — TP: Of One and Many
Published: 2011-08-02 05:58:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1628; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 12
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ForDovasary Balitang. Tried to fit my design more closely to 's, and work in some things she wanted me to change.
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Dove (c) Tamora Pierce
Art (c) yellowis4happy
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I appreciate your note about races and how you really can't tell a person's ethnicity by what they look like. If I had a dime for every time someone told me I "don't look Spanish" (I'm Puerto Rican) I'd be rich. People like being able to categorize and organize and that is especially true with understanding others. People want to put people groups in neat, tidy boxes based on appearance but no one is designed to fit into someone else's preconceived notion of what they're supposed to look like.
This is a great piece by the way.
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This one is really nice. It's kinda intense in a pleasant, odd sort of way.
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Lol, thank you. :]
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Very Very Very well done! I love how clean and detailed this close up is - realistic and somewhat cartoony at the same time! Beautiful!
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Hahaha! Too much practice, Zo. Too much practice.
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I'm amazed at how, with lines, you included the deep-set eyes (like Mequen's). You captured her youth really well in this.
It's always a little confusing pinning down someone's race from their basic features, without the information of skin tone or eye or hair color. Heck, facial recognition software pinned me as Asian when I'm, to quote Weird Al, whiter than sour cream. I think some of the criticism stems from Tamora Pierce's rich land of different cultures, where there are so many distinct racial groups. "Whitewashing" is a critique too often pulled on anyone who doesn't make their characters specifically, somewhat stereotypically, the race imagined by the interpreters. You did a really good job.
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Thanks! 
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your lines are so smooth and gorgeous, I really can't wait to see your entry!
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Thanks!
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I really like your author's comment. People have a way of thinking that if you are Asian or Caucasian... you look a certain way especially if you are only part-of or something. People look differently no matter what race they are and sometimes you can't completely pinpoint it. And like you said, it's a book and a reader's take on what it is is their own ^^
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Thanks!
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I think it's very good. Amazing. You drew her in a very unique and beautiful way. Well done
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I like this very much, and sorry about people's confusion to the raka race. If its any help, I think I remember reading a quote from Tammy saying she based the raka off of Malaysian features, but I'm sure you could check if you're worried about it.
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It is a lovely design with a lot of delicacy in the features, a shame people in the book were shallow enough to ignore her more subtle beauty in favor of stoking her sister's ego.
I remember my professor for Chinese History starting the semester by saying that every single person in this room could have been born in china; a room full of people of Northern European, Southern European, Western Eurasian, Middle Eastern, North African, African American and South American ancestry, and the current area of China alone is a diverse enough country that we all could very have been born there. For some reason Americans are encultured to classify people into specific broad ethnic or racial categories instead of a spectrum, a tendency that has been unfortunately been perpetuated by the very affirmative action style policies that were originally intended to stop that, because we have to categorize ourselves on paperwork, which is a shame. If you met me, an Irish American, you would never guess that my dad spent part of his childhood in Africa and I could call myself African American if I wanted to. If I did that though, I would have to jump through all sorts of bureaucratic and legal hoops as everyone would be convinced I was falsifying paperwork.
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Thanks! :] I agree with you there.
I know what you mean. My best friend has an African American father and a Caucasian mother, and she doesn't identify with either of those races. I didn't grow up feeling that, obviously, but I grew up with her being confronted with people telling her what she's supposed to be or supposed to do because she's "black," or being shrugged off by people who had darker skin and wanted to know "why this white girl is talking to us." I, myself, have blonde hair and blue eyes, but I could say I identify as Mexican on that paperwork you're talking about, since my great-grandfather was Mexican. I don't, because my grandfather never passed on that side of his heritage, but just as any example, and I'm sure there would be a lot of people who would object to that.
Thank you for the detailed response!
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Poor kid, it really is the people caught in between the general perceptions of race that suffer the burden of the ignorance of others.
I mean, just by appearances you would only see my Celtic good looks, you wouldn't guess that I have an anglicized Norman surname, a Scandinavian blood type, speak a Germanic, Slavic and Romance language, and have the most adorable little Ethiopian cousins! How neatly do I really fit into anyone's categories beyond the simple appearances? Not very!
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Yeah... Society really shouldn't generalize the way it does.
Wow, that's impressive!
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I love the lines- very smooth. I need more practice to get my lines to be half as clean as yours
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