btw like…wrt that person, and their art style. there isn’t really anything WRONG with how their style simplified, per se. but in order to see what people are crowing about here you need to know how i think of stylization and how stylization works in cartooning. when you stylize something, you’re creating a language of shorthand symbols that make things faster and easier to draw. an eye isn’t really spherical or almond shaped, an actual eye (when being drawn) is a series of like 9+ planes that come together over a semi-circular object set into a socket. but because it’s difficult and not always fun to draw realistically, we create shorthand in drawing, which become symbols, essentially, of how we’ve distilled reality.
the problem i’m feeling, here, is that when this person developed a faster, quicker style, and was forced to distill their symbols further, their true, honest feelings came to light in their symbology. an honest portrait of finn turned into a startlingly racist composition of badly chosen features. because they chose to distill “black person = dark skin+light pink lips” as their chosen symbology, it highlights underlying racism that they allowed to surface. because they choose to draw what they think a transmasculine body should look like, according to their symbology, they developed an extremely transphobic and dysphoria-triggering portrayal of what they think shorthand for “trans man” is, visually. to them, trans man equals person with short hair, square, masculine jaw, and exaggerated traditionally female proportions. this is what their cartooning style tells us, and this is the outcome of their symbology being boiled down.
so no, objectively, i don’t see anything wrong with simplifying your art style, especially when you work or plan to work in animation. it’s good practice for keeping simple forms on model and being able to keep them solid during the animating process. the PROBLEM is that once this person simplified and distilled their library of symbols down into something THEY felt would be immediately and easily readable as this or that upon viewing, they came up with something racist and something transphobic. that’s what the issue is.
Not much to say about the CMC, it didn’t take me long to figure out what I wanted to do with each of their designs
Spike on the other hand was a challenge since I couldn’t just go “Insert horse pattern here" and be done with it (in my own words from earlier, “how can you change what’s already perfect”)…. I had to do a little brainstorming. Ended up giving him a bit more of a lizard vibe; thinking along the lines of bearded dragons… I love drawing lizard toes lol
Okay first off, SHE LOOKS AMAZING! HOLY COW I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE MORE! *cough* okay, but I have a couple things I want to run by the fandom here. *cracks knuckles* here we go…
Okay, everything we’ve seen with Pink Diamond up until now, she’s had this design:
She’s BIG, has a nice perfectly shaped diamond at her waist, and huge spiky hair. But the Pink Diamond we were introduced to today:
She is smol. Much smaller than Yellow Diamond, judging by the punch crack in the glass was probably made by someone no bigger than Stevonnie. And her gem? Is not a full diamond like Blue and Yellow. Her spiky hair is also not prominent, but rather soft and fluffy kind of like lion but i digress.
Now, if we flash back a few episodes to when Peridot was first unbubbled, there’s something here I think you’ll like and maybe some of you might see where I’m going with this.
These two gems are singled out in the background quite frequently throughout the bubble room and yes one does look like pink diamond but that’s not what I’m getting at here….But let’s say for example these two gems were standing next to each other. The one with the pink gem has her gem placed in her stomach, and so does the one with the blue cone gem.
What if the two fused together?
They would create the perfect DIAMOND SHAPE depending on placement. AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE TAKE TWO SMOL GEMS AND FUSE THEM TOGETHER?
They create a BIGGER, STRONGER GEM who’s appearance changes to fit both original gems, and retains gem placement.
PINK DIAMOND. IS A FUSION.
Pink wants her own planet, her own army, to rule. But she is smol. And by the way Yellow treats her, possibly defective or “off-color”. So she maybe meets another gem, maybe with a cone shape that is in the opposite direction of her upside down gem. They fuse, creating one PERFECT DIAMOND, which makes her TALLER, BIGGER, STRONGER, POWERFUL. Maybe “other gem” has spiky hair. The Pink Diamond we’ve seen before this new episode would match that description. She’s going to be able to take over planets now.
But here’s the thing too. Is she’s still that small little off color diamond. And homeworld HATES FUSION. Why do they hate it so much? Why do they see it as an abomination?
BECAUSE IT WENT WRONG WITH PINK DIAMOND. and maybe they had her shattered for it…..
foreshadowing much? The mirror breaks in to 7 pieces as well. Someone….some GEM is the other half of pink diamond.
I have something to add to this, as discussed with a buddy on Discord.
Fusion seems to give Gems a whole new light on things, especially mixed fusion, for better or for worse. Now, here comes a thought.
Eyeball Ruby saw something alright. If this theory is true, than this reminds me of just one thing:
Two Gems fell when Garnet was poofed. Given how Pink Diamond and this other Gem were shaped, if they came apart.. It would look like a Diamond, but cleaved in two.
Miscommunication kills, and it would not surprise me in the least.
And in regards to the other Gem.. I can only assume it was either pink as well, or a clear type Gem, in a cone cut, such as this Crystal Quartz
OR ROSE QUARTZ if we’re on the subject of quartz gems. And if that picture of the gems on that shirt is correct, then Steven’s gem is actually cone shaped, but the pointy end is inside of him and we don’t see that bit. WHICH MIGHT MEAN ROSE AND PINK WERE A FUSION TO CREATE PINK DIAMOND, but their ideals didn’t match up and they fought and ultimately rose shattered her love to protect the earth. It would explain how Rose was able to get so close to her in the first place to shatter her, and why the diamonds seem so keen on covering up the scandalous fusion.
Oh, it could be! Though it only raises questions on the other Rose Quartz we see bubbled in Pink’s Zoo..
I figured Clear Quartz since A. the lighting in the room plus the bubble it is in refracts all kinds of weird colors, B. if it IS a Clear Quartz, and fused, it would no doubt take the same colors as Pink (or anyone else for that matter), C. Earth is RICH with Quartz, probably why so many were produced in the first place, and it is true that Gem creation is far from perfect, with Off-Colors being produced here and there, such as all but Jasper of the Beta Kindergarten and CG Amethyst from the Alpha Kindergarten. Wouldn’t be hard at all for a Diamond to meet another of one of the higher ranked on the Mohs Scale to make a “perfect Diamond”. D. Eyeball (whom, btw, I get a feeling MIGHT be colorblind) and the entirety of The Trial. E. There are many types of Gems we haven’t met yet. Hell, outside of Pink and Rose, we have not met one pink Gem proper outside of them, or any transparent/white Gem types, for that matter!
HOWEVER, this does NOT mean I am opposed to any other ideas: theories stay as unanswered questions until solid proof emerges and transforms them into fact (or breaks them like shattered Gems dreams), so I’m open for almost anything, really!
so in a sense, rose quartz was pink diamond to an extend?
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
