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ART: Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Jun 01, 2011 21:02

Subject: Tony Stark (racebend)
Fandom: Iron Man
Rating: general
Media: photoshop
Notes: I only have a bajillion arts I need to post, but I read this fic today and the fangirl in my took over. This is Vietnamese-American Tony Stark, based off the unbelievably amazing fic horns of a deer, feet of a tiger by softintelligence ( Read more... )

marvel comics

Comments 51

bzzinglikeneon June 2 2011, 04:18:42 UTC

LOVE IT OMG. ♥_♥

glockgal June 2 2011, 15:04:54 UTC

YEEE THANK YOU. I love that the Tony in your icon is also reflecting blue light. *irrationally pleased* XD

woldy June 2 2011, 04:38:29 UTC

Have you posted the drawing characters of colour tutorial to hp_diversity? It seems like the kind of thing that would be a great resource for people to find there.

glockgal June 2 2011, 15:05:23 UTC

Oooh, I didn't know that comm existed, thank you for telling me, bb!!

scarletscarlet June 2 2011, 04:57:30 UTC

Oh hiya, Tony, you are made of quite hot thar <3 ( ... )

glockgal June 2 2011, 22:29:29 UTC

WHY DID LJ TAG YOU AS SPAM *holds you close*

If I'm drawing someone with a cool skin tone but I don't want them to look like a dead thing... problems, I have them.

That IS a really good question!

And yesss lighting I think has a lot to do with it. We as media consumers are so used to lighting meant for paler-skinned people, that when we try to apply that subconscious lighting to paper with darker-skinned characters, it becomes really confusing when trying to use photo refs!

Thank you for making all these points, they are GREAT and very helpful!!

scarletscarlet June 2 2011, 22:56:34 UTC

LJ thought I was spam? *sob of LJ rejection*

The thing is that a lot of fancy fashion photos for folk with particularly dark skin get crazy-dramatic on the lighting and go high-gloss for skin and you get this very artsy fetishy strangeness which is not at *all* handy for drawing someone with their feet up watching telly :/.

swtalmnd June 2 2011, 05:54:49 UTC

I'd love to see a segment in your tutorial on characters of color in greyscale cartoons or other drawings where the default skin tone for caucasian people is just paper white.

glockgal June 2 2011, 15:11:23 UTC

Ooh that's a good one, thankee. And I know just the comic book to reference as well!

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glockgal June 2 2011, 15:33:52 UTC

YAY. Thanks, rockin' kitty!!