Urg, I really didn't mean to imply that people divide artistically into "POC" and "not POC", but I can see how it reads that way. Will edit in a sec.
Anyway: This is both absolutely true and not a point I am near yet with my art. "Avoid drawing East Asians with pointy noses" is obviously a MASSIVE generalisation of the diverse facial structures of East Asian people...but it's a good place to start and not something everyone has figured out.
But you're right that it's very important to remember that these distinctions exist. Since I don't yet have much of a sense for the subtle distinctions between ethnicities (I'm still getting the hang of the typical physical distinctions between genders) I usually just find a face model of the approximately right ethnicity/gender/age etc and work from that.
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Anyway: This is both absolutely true and not a point I am near yet with my art. "Avoid drawing East Asians with pointy noses" is obviously a MASSIVE generalisation of the diverse facial structures of East Asian people...but it's a good place to start and not something everyone has figured out.
But you're right that it's very important to remember that these distinctions exist. Since I don't yet have much of a sense for the subtle distinctions between ethnicities (I'm still getting the hang of the typical physical distinctions between genders) I usually just find a face model of the approximately right ethnicity/gender/age etc and work from that.