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In the case of body types, there are just some I need practice at doing in my stylized/non-realism rendering. In the case of ethnicity...
You know what, this gets a bit raw in terms of talking about my experiences, so I'm gonna spoiler it.
You know what, this gets a bit raw in terms of talking about my experiences, so I'm gonna spoiler it.
I've entered some environments (university, and my job to a lesser extent) where ethnically European/"white" people are sort of...presumed racist jerks unless proven otherwise? Not as an overt thing, mind you, more like something that slips into casual conversations (such as using "really white" as a substitute for saying someone was a "Karen"). I'd grown up in a school and home environment where that was not present at all, so it came as a shock. I left college with my worldview of people still intact, but with an underlying fear that, being (mostly) ethnically European, I couldn't depict characters of other ethnicities. Any character flaw or deviation from perfectly realistic anatomy would be taken as an indication that I was racist. It took me some time to realize how much those environments really did to me, and I'm now re-teaching myself that no, most people are more reasonable than that. All that to say, I have a lot of sympathy for artists who don't feel qualified to depict certain ethnicities. It might just be that, like me, they've been exposed to that insistent little voice telling them they CAN'T.