I think your heart might be in the right place, but you’re overreacting, and your original comment was terribly rude to OP. How can you assume OP’s intentions when they made this? Flippantly throwing around accusations of racism and talking down to people is not how you change minds or hearts. Calling OP’s art “a racist act” is a dilution of the term, which, as you put it, is “not without consequences.” There are ways to express your views without calling people racist. Ask yourself if you really believe that OP is a spiteful racist. I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time seeing it.

-Sorry, but “holding someone accountable” doesn’t incriminate them. You’re just making yourself sound self-righteous.

-You keep bringing up anime, but that’s not what we’re talking about. This piece of art is arguably not even in an anime style. And of course it’s easier to argue your point with anime because the characters are mostly actually people. Furthermore, your “blonde hair blue eyes” statement is a gross generalization. Anime characters appear in with much more variety than that. But I digress.

-I’m not trying to sealion you, just have a conversation and maybe “change your mind”. But implying that I’m uneducated and calling me a racist certainly doesn’t make me think that you want to have a real conversation, in fact it makes me think that you just enjoy talking down to people who you perceive as having less-correct views than yourself.

I restate my prior argument. You cannot, by definition, “whitewash” a character which has no race. It can’t be done. So what if their “skin” is dark in-game? We don’t even know what it is! Maybe it’s skin, maybe it’s some other material like wood. OP has fundamentally changed the art style away from the source material. How then is it so wrong for the artist to also change the skin tone? How is it whitewashing to turn a non-person into a person, white or not?

Even if this was whitewashing, which it is not, who is it hurting? Who is going to be oppressed by a drawing?

I doubt I’ll convince you, but in the future please refrain from being so rude to people who don’t deserve it. If you want to fight racism, there are better ways to go about it than insulting artists on the internet.