*Breaks Down Door* I Have A Prediction...

There it is. Legendary.

Twitter loved this a lot so I’ll share it here too 👍

Hey so first off, absolutely love your blog. I have learned so much and I can hardly wait to implement it! My question is: I have a character with vitiligo (and’s Celiac’s and rheumatoid arthritis) in a comic book I’m working on, and I want to represent that, but the problem is the comic is abstractly colored to display the characters’ emotions rather than their actual physical appearances, and my art style is designed to be pretty minimalist so I don’t need huge amounts of time and energy to actually make the comic itself (I’ll attach a picture at the bottom for easier reference). My current plan is just make lighter patches of the abstract color in place of skin color, but while that works great in theory, in practice it doesn’t show up well in lighter colors, including his default color, and since absence of color indicates absence of emotion, I don’t want to just leave them blank for the lighter colors either. Do you guys have any suggestions for alterations so I can more clearly represent that?

Thank you so much in advance!!

This is the guy in his default color. This was also the drawing I first ran into the light color problem with

Hi!

So I don't really think there are other ways to draw it than “lighter skin” for vitiligo, as that's kinda what it is, visually speaking.

What I'd keep in mind is that vitiligo isn't always super visible.

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If the character's skin color changes, then the vitiligo patches will be less visible when it's lighter. That doesn't mean he suddenly doesn't have it, just like how people with pale skin still have their vitiligo, no matter how apparent it is at first glance.

Regardless of skin color, vitiligo patches will tend to be of a very similar color - it's not just lighter skin (an incredibly wide category), but loss of pigment.

However, if his skin isn't human-colored but instead gray or green (or anything else), the shade of the patches will slightly shift to be less saturated or have a different undertone. But if he goes between going dark blue and light blue, the vitiligo would still be the same shade of very light blue, rather than getting darker when the rest of skin is darker. I see this a lot with how people draw characters with vitiligo, and it just Doesn't Work Like That (top right on the image above, also featuring the trope of pale people never having vitiligo for some reason).

If his skin color constantly shifts, then his vitiligo will be more visible one time and less at other times - there's not much you can do about that, it's just how contrast works. That said, sharp-edged and larger patches will be more apparent to readers than smaller ones.

So basically his vitiligo patches should probably float at a similar amount of pigment regardless of how the rest of the skin looks like, with slightly different undertones depending on the skin color at the moment. Sometimes it will show up more, sometimes less, if you want to make it clear to the readers then you can first show him in a color that makes it more obvious.

Either way, he has vitiligo!

Hope this helps,

mod Sasza

@baa-whatever Can either you or me redraw this? I absolutely love this image so much that I’ve kept a screenshot as to not loose it to the tumblr sea. I’d love to either see a redraw from you or redraw it myself with Dazzle’s new design but I wanted to ask first.

*Earth tucking Lunar into bed*

Lunar: Good night, Earth.

Earth: (kisses Lunar's head)

Lunar: (holding up Spigot) And Spigot.

Earth: (kisses Spigot's head)

Lunar: (pointing out the window) Now Jack.

Earth: (Turns around to see Jack watching them on the balcony)

Earth: ...

Lunar: ...

Jack: Returning to the darkness...

I don't know I'm sorry it's early

Dialogue Thing #1

"Hey, there...did it hurt?"

"Did...what hurt?"

"..."

"You forgot the second half of the pickup line, didn't you?"

"... Can I try again?"

IT GOT BETTER

❤️❤️❤️

I had this thing in my head for a while, so I made a comic as soon I had time! Everyone is having a sleepover in Sun's room.

They need a bigger bed.

Solar and Dazzle's character designs are made by @ayyy-imma-ninja

You can watch the show right here: https://www.youtube.com/@SunMoonShow

I had this thing in my head for a while, so I made a comic as soon I had time! Everyone is having a sleepover in Sun's room.

They need a bigger bed.

Solar and Dazzle's character designs are made by @ayyy-imma-ninja

You can watch the show right here: https://www.youtube.com/@SunMoonShow

*Yeets 100,000 jars of Nutella at Lunar*

CONGRATULATIONS, GUYS! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!

I don't know what's happening but yes <3

I've got another one for you!

Dazzle loves dancing fruit, right?

Lunar looks comfy.

Solar and Dazzle's character designs are made by @ayyy-imma-ninja

You can watch the show right here: https://www.youtube.com/@SunMoonShow

Okay, I got another idea!

In preparation for seeing Inside Out 2 tomorrow (NO SPOILERS PLEASE EVEN IF IT'S BAD), I watched the first movie and came up with ideas as to what the SAMS cast would be if they were emotions.

For starters, I think Sun would definitely be disgust because he is the sass master. Master of Sass. Sassy Sun (Okay, I'll stop now.) Either that or fear for... obvious reasons.

I would say Moon would be anger, but that would be a disservice to his efforts to change. I'll say Nexus is though, since...yeah.

I think Lunar would be joy, but only because he's usually upbeat, even when he's not okay.

And Earth would be sadness because she helps people work through hard feelings. Though, it's not hard to picture her as Joy.

Okay, thanks for listening to my nonsensical rant. If the Time Police asks, I was never here.