Actually, I would say where he is could also contribute, I have a friend from Africa, when she's in her African country, she gets way darker because of the weather and sun there, but in the Europe country where we live she gets really pale, not sure if that's what the author thought? But Ivan was really dark at first and people with such dark skin don't get that much less dark for anything, so it is really disapointing...
If it was just a bot I would understand, but this much just shows that she's biased, when he was a slave he had dark skin and now that he's a knight he doesn't have dark skin? Come onnnn
I blame the artist. Like this is what happens when colorist don't take there are classes seriously. It's like overlay it undertones, like dude! This is why our class is important. Makes me so mad when people go into the professions and can totally tell that they just skipped over the classes without taking it seriously. So anyone there who's an art student, pay attention and keep your notes from class! Like, you're an artist, you could see the results. Don't turn somebody white just cuz you feel like it's convenient
I agree, as an artist myself it really upsets me
Throwback to when Ivan was LITERALLY a grey olive green colour fr
Attribute the "complexion getting healthier" to the prastie fragment but you can still take him from a sickly brown coloured man to a healthy brown coloured man. It's called undertones
Whitening him and saying it's bc of plot is just... Weird. Very colourist.