In cartoons, they usually use yellow or white as a substitute for blonde. Why is it not possible to make blonde markers/paint?

  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Another reason, and probably the main reason I would argue, is that cartoons are not meant to be realistic.

    See also: black hair being drawn as blue.

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      2 days ago

      I mean a lot of blacks are really just a very dark blue. You can’t really paint a lack of color onto something. What’s grey, what’s blue, what’s purple. And what’s black? It’s hard to tell when it’s really really dark.

      I’ve been to tv stores and looked at different tvs saying “that one’s a lot blacker”. TVs have a hard time projecting light that makes something dark.

      There is the super black color that one dude owns. The blackest black.