My little Artblog

Wow, thank you so much for your kind words, Anon!It really means a lot to hear it, especially with how little Pearlnet content gets made now a days. That isn’t a note about anyone in particular, I haven’t made much recently either.Flat chested Pearl has always been a favorite of mine to draw and see. I thought about it for a long time when I first started drawing her and I decided genderless aliens might not all always have all human anatomy in the right places, especially for ones like Pearl who seemed to just tolerate humans.Plus, Pear is a buff bird! She can leap dozens of feet into the air and Ronaldo swung a full force punch at her and she didn’t budge as he broke his hand on hers. She should have some muscles, ne?Thanks again!

Awh! Hey thanks

Hello Anon, thanks for the ask, and thank you for the compliment.

I will say I am somewhat baffled by the thought that I whitewashed Garnet in the picture. It is, as it stands, just a line art drawing right now, with no local colors (local meaning the color of the thing in question) at all. I really wanted to push the idea that they’re underneath some big trees, so I did overlay a grey shadow of dappled light filtering through the trees. Otherwise everything, Garnet’s skin tone, hair, Ame’s skin tone, Rose’s hair, the grass, dirt, clothing, and tree bark, all of which should at the very least show some color, are all white/valueless. It has nothing to do with me trying to make Garnet whiter than she is, it is just lines.

If it is in reference to her hair, I admit I did consider it carefully before I changed it. In the original sketch, her afro was intact, but I wanted to show that she and Pearl are touching their hands together, so I decided to change her hairstyle to a much closer cropped, tightly curled hairstyle typical of Roman men in that era. Everyone has their hair/clothing changed to reflect the styles of the time, and I was hoping that maintaining a coiffed, curly hairstyle would still show she has curls, even if they’re artfully arranged as they are in the statuary from the time.

I hope you will take a look at some of my other work, because I have drawn Garnet quite a lot, and I try my best to keep her faithful to canon skin tone and hairstyle. I hope this response also clarifies things for others, because I don’t agree with whitewashing, and did not want to give that impression.

Thank you again for the ask.