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stillorbitingu · 2 years

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Vocabulary, Safia Elhillo

#safia elhillo #poetry #the January children #swana art #Sudan #Arabic #on language #Arabic music #on love #on home

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brother-genitivi · 1 year

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some traditional Turkish clothing for Destan

closeups under the cut

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age hawke #femhawke #purple hawke #da hawke #female hawke #swana art #destan hawke #my art #turkish tag #my babygirl………….#i imagine sebastian seeing her in any of these and short circuiting #kinda hard to see but she has a dragon tat on the back of her neck #every time i draw her i make her eyebrows thicker djdhdbsjke

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emptyshellofanillusionwizard · 2 years

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some ladies for icewind dale

#art #dnd art #dungeons and dungeons #d&d art #d&d character art #icewind dale #arab art #lebanese art #lebanese #lebanon #bedouin #swana art

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jamesizlar · 9 months

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Interviewed an incredible artist collective for the Philadelphia Museum of Art :)

#my art #photography #Philadelphia #philadelphia museum of art #pma #lgbtqia #swana #swana art #femme artists #art

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palipunk · 1 year

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Some Ashura outfits bc dalish elf rights

#ashura lavellan #Dragon Age fanart #da fanart #he's not an inquisitor but he's the twin brother of my inquisitor asma #dragon age inquisition #dai #BioWare #my art #artists on tumblr #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons #lavellan #Outfit lineup #swana elf appreciation hours #dnd character #dalish elf #digital art #character design #elves of color

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cor-lapis · 1 year

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demo expression studies, aka his personality is a 2/10 but his demo is an 11/10 (due to Boys Night Bonus)

Tighnari redesign (peonycats), al-Haitham redesign (oayr21), + threw some rough colours on my wip Kaveh redesign

#you don't understand this is Kaveh's demo and al-Haitham is there I guess #<- kaveh bias speaking #genshin impact #kaveh #cyno #tighnari #al-haitham #my art #The real 5* in this demo was kaveh's face journey #If Heizou is sherlock holmes but an anime twink then al-Haitham is BBC sherlock but ambiguously swana #What kind? Like 5 of them (mhy.why)

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ohhnorr · 2 years

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A cultural redesign of Dehya. It seems she is supposed to be representing the amazigh people. Well...i dont see it...so i drew it 👐

Btw yes she can fight

#art #artwork #digitalart #drawing #genshin art #genshin impact #genshin impact leaks #genshin leaks #sumeru #genshin impact sumeru #dehya #genshin impact dehya #why cant we be represented in a respectful mannerrr #representation #mena #swana #amazigh

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habibi-holseti · 10 months

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A rough sketch of Palestinian Spider Women

Can’t wait to do the other shami homies with her!

#arab swag #across the spiderverse #spidersona #across the spiderverse oc #into the spider verse #spiderwomen Palestine #Palestinian #arab art #Swana #shami

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moodr1ng · 2 months

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just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).

however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!

(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)

#97 #emile corsi #i dont want to have any arguments about whether or not orientalist historical art is racist btw i will block you.#truth be told? there are orientalist pieces i like. theres one orientalist painting that is one of my favorites.#there does come nuance sometimes when your representation in art you have access to is so tied to your fetishization and othering.#(not just in historical orientalism - see also journalistic photography of swana people etc still using the same tropes)#i know this. i dont think its evil to like some orientalist pieces. we still must be aware that the art movement is inherently racist.#and there is a difference between enjoying some orientalist pieces by long dead artists with an awareness of the issues surrounding them #versus creating new orientalist pieces today and relying on biased racist ai models to do so!

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vsthepomegranate · 9 months

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Horse Blinker, carved in relief with a seated Sphinx

Assyria, 1365-609

#ancient art #mesopotamia #ancient assyria #Sphinx #eastern mediterranean #middle eastern art #MENA #SWANA

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stillorbitingu · 2 years

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Then What - Louay Kayali (Syrian, 1934-1978)

#art #swana art #Louay Kayali #Syria #syrian art #despair #arab #arab art #saddness #mourners #mourning

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brother-genitivi · 1 year

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Alexa, play Virane Kıranlara by Hilmi Yerekaban

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #femhawke #dragon age hawke #purple hawke #da hawke #female hawke #swana art #destan hawke #my art #turkish tag #bridal clothing HEHEHEEEEEE #the song is a true banger btw. music from the black sea region played on a kemençe……… lush #i cannot stop drawing her in turkish clothing help

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rainrain64 · 1 year

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Alhaitham redesign to get his arabness out more

#genshin impact #al haitham #art #genshin impact redesign #redesign #arab #swana #illustration #genshin #henna

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theythemclockenjoyer · 1 year

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please tell me they did not give the author with very racist and homophobic past who realied on stereotypes and whitewashing in her book another story about another culture she knows nothing about

#im tired im very much am becus the ik she will not do Egyptian mythology any justice and will straight up make allthe mc options white agai #again**#she doesn't deserve another chance to write about swana culture or anything the like in general #the only good thing about her book is the art #yet everyone praise it for doing the bear minimum in story telling #and ignoring everything wrong about #romance club #.reaverannoyingrants #also dont get me started on the fact that she paires lima the lesbian li with a man im still fucking mad over it

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phantasiy · 10 months

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Mustafa Al-Hallaj (Palestinian, b. 1938)

#Mustafa Al-Hallaj #Palestinian #art #printmaking #1970s #SWANA #Asia

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shahdraws · 2 years

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REDESIGNING DORI (Genshin Impact)

Disclaimer: this is my individual perspective as a Persian with a Zoroastrian upbringing. My views are not reflective of those of the entire SWANA community, and I am always open to discussing other cultural and religious perspectives in my comments or DMs granted that all communication remains respectful. ALSO!! This is going to be a longer post, so be prepared for more reading than you usually have to do on my blog!

What I think her design is based on:

Immediately when I saw Dori’s design, I was reminded of this outfit that was super popular when I was a kid. Literally every Persian child I knew had this outfit; we all wore some variant of this to cultural and religious festivals. It was just a Persian childhood wardrobe staple in the 2000’s.

On To My Redesigns Now!!

Since I’m not sure how Dori’s personality will be fleshed out in the game, I didn’t really want to jump to giving her an overtly feminine or masculine look, I decided to try and design two looks, one of which is a bit more neutral, and the other being a bit more more traditionally feminine.

The first re-design I created basically keeps the original spirit of Dori’s outfit, but makes the shirt longer, since that was the main thing I took issue with in her outfit (literally why did they put a child character in a cropped shirt?) and I added a vest to create more of a traditional look.

I gave her a bit more of a tan complexion, because there’s very few arguments for a young person, who arguably spends a lot of time outdoors, to not have a bit of a natural tan, if not also just having a naturally darker complexion due to where she’s from. Yes, yes, there are areas of SWANA where the snow can consume buildings (My parents’ city in Iran!), but do we really want to argue for another sheer-cold region?

I decided to keep her original color palette, since I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with a kid picking their favorite color for their traditional clothing.

I ditched the bows because I just don’t like them. Nothing morally wrong with them, I just don’t like them on a personal level.

For my second re-design, I decided to incorporate some pink into her outfit in the form of a skirt, in order to create the more feminine version of this traditional outfit.

I also added a sequined and beaded veil over her hair, since that’s relatively consistent in girls’ traditional clothing in Iran.

But let’s dive a bit deeper while we’re here and talk about my thoughts on Dori’s look as it is in-game

What I think Hoyoverse did okay on, in my opinion:

I think Dori’s full name, Lord Dori Sangemah, is really pretty. Her family name literally means “Moonstone” in Farsi, how cool is that?!

It looks like she has curly/wavy hair that’s cut short in her splash art, which I absolutely LOVE.

Her hat and trousers are consistent with some elements of traditional clothing, and are perfectly appropriate for a young girl: modest, easy to move around in, and in a color of the wearer’s choice.

Her glasses kind of add character to her design, so I’m not too against them.

Now for what I don’t like:

The Crop-top. I wouldn’t have an issue with it if she were an adult character, but since she looks like an actual child, I think that it would have been better to give her a more age-appropriate look. There were literally lots of ways to do this differently, so…why?

A SWANA region would have been a perfect opportunity to show us lots of playable characters with varied skin tones, since we really do have many diverse complexions, and I feel like Dori is just one character that could have had a bit more of a tan complexion.

I just didn’t like the bows, personally.

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