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I’m so glad someone put this together. ASIANS DO NOT ALL HAVE THE SAME EYES.
it’s so crazy to me that ppl think east asian ppl have the same eyes which just goes to show those people either don’t have east asian friends or aren’t exposed to them at all cos there’s A LOT of varying eye shapes. they’re not all monolids either!
this was gonna be a tutorial and i guess it still is but if anything it’s just a really long and drawn out “essay” on drawing people with epicanthic folds. one of my biggest pet peeves is people drawing asian people exclusively with the same type of eye they’d give white people or anyone else who typically doesn’t have the fold! however i know that most people are taught with the standard white person eye (google image search for “eye” and it’ll all be pictures of white people’s eyes) so learning to draw epicanthic folds is a consciously learned thing.
therefore i bring you this, which attempts to break the mechanics of epicanthic folds down into something that’s a bit easier to digest and implement in your own art!
style can be argued i guess but it’s not that hard to stylize eyes with folds if you do proper observation and research. eyes with epicanthic folds are as diverse as eyes without so it’s not like you have to adhere to a strict model for them (although many people think that you have to) and all it takes to distinguish the two in stylized art (and even in semi/realism once you think about it) is a few lines! like i said this is a learned process but it’ll make your asian characters (and characters of other races even) a bit more interesting and believable.
I thought about elves and the amount of fel corruption visible in the eyes, so I made a dumb chart. idk if anyone cares buuuuut
1. generic High elf (loser)
2. I imagine that fel is VERY potent stuff so even a tiny amount would leave trace amounts, however it would wear off eventually. (I could see players even having a little bit when they run around outland or fighting demons, or making out with a warlock. it would go away in a day)
3. Now this is tricky as the elf would have to be around fel consistently enough to scar, but still so small to barely do anything. Possibly what a child would have (inherited from a parent) or someone that hung around the outskirts of Silvermoon?
4. Someone who never used fel but was surrounded by it. Prolly farstriders or poorer civilians.
5. Average belf who chased an average amount of the green dragon. They would start to show some amounts of sickly baggy eyes, or a tint to the skin.
6. Active fel casters, scars would begin to show and they might even have a darker glow on the whole body.
Oh I like this.
I don’t play WoW anymore ( and it’s unlikely I will return ) but this is really cool! Ander’s eyes have always been closer to number three, despite me being terrified of his MRP being posted all over a slam tumblr because I’m apparently a bad RPer if I describe elf eyes as anything but “green”. I just can’t see ALL of their eyes being the exact same shade of green. Like, all the fel-touched orcs have different shades of green skin. Why would elf eyes be different ( barring character model restrictions )?
Hahaha I came back after all what. But yeah. I love this chart.
