It’s always a good day when fan art goes viral, and it seems that AI art is in the media’s eye at the moment. An artist has tried their hand at reimagining the iconic Addams Family as a black family, and done such a fantastic job that viewers are devastated when they realise this isn’t a show but rather fan art.
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A Black Addams Family
If you are a Netflix fan, you have probably been watching the new Tim Burton The Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday. For the first time, The Addams Family are portrayed from a Latin American perspective, which is how they were always intended to be. Still, white-washing in the ’90s changed the plans.
A Birmingham artist, Des Wilson’s fanart of The Addams Family as a black family has gone viral. He has imagined the iconic family from a Black perspective, and the art is impeccable. It looks so professional that the unaware viewer might think that it is an actual series that is airing on Netflix. We can only hope that Netflix is paying attention because it is a brilliant concept.
Inspiration For The Art
After watching Wednesday on Netflix and seeing the iconic story from a Latin American perspective, he was inspired to recreate the Addams Family show as what it would look like from a Black perspective. Wilson felt that while the Black perspective in film and television is becoming more prevalent and popular in the modern age, some things are still missing from the Black experience. Therefore, he was inspired to make his art to fill the gap he noticed and inspire other artists to never shy away from showing all perspectives.
“It’s been very inspirational,” Wilson said in a TV interview. “A lot of the feedback I’ve been getting has been positive around people who are inspired by the work and didn’t think to imagine the Addams Family as Black. That’s one of the things I’m happy the art has done – helping to motivate people in that way.”
Artist
Desmond Wilson has always been a creative at heart. He has used every way to express himself imaginable, from photography to music. Now turning his eye to digital art, Wilson is exploring the exponential growth of artificial intelligence art generators. Through a combination of AI software and photoshop, he made the artwork just 6 days after Wednesday premiered on Netflix.
Wilson has done a few other artworks in this same vein, such as reimagining Harry Potter from the Black perspective with his artwork of Hakim Potter, which is just as detailed and inspirational for young Black artists who want to make a mark on the world.
With each new artist that steps onto the scene reimagining recognisable characters from a Black perspective, it’s just a matter of time before big producers realise what fans want, and that is Black representation through movies, series, and cartoons especially. Dez W recreated the Addams Family using the perfect characters, capturing the essence of each of the Addams family members, all the way down to the excellent, disembodied hand that movies on its own.
If this was a Netflix show, I would 100% be watching it. However, I’m sure I’m not the only person who looked at it and got excited and immediately heartbroken that it wasn’t a real show coming out of the enormous streaming platform.
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Yall racism and ignorance is showing real bad in these comments… and im sure 99.9% of all of yall saying the sh!t are grown. Grow tf up and stop bein weird. Theres nothing wrong with including black people and reamagining things.
I would watch it if it was a good series, no matter if they are black, or not. Same as if they do it with east asians, polinesians, etc. A series can be good or bad regardless of their actors’ ethnicity. And it has to be believable in its own context. I would also watch Black Panther with white actors, or mongol ones, or Peruvian. Just like I like Spiderman. I don’t care at all. It just has to be good, that’s what I expect of movies and series. And I also would like NEW stuff, not just remakes. And if they do a restart or whatever of something already done, better be something really different, a new story, etc. Wondering if one would watch a series or movie according to their actors’ ethnicity shouldn’t even be a thing, unless we are watching something historical and/or biographical. Dunno, watching a white Idi Amin, a black Erik Thovaldsson (Erik The red) or a Vietnamese Emiliano Zapata wouldn’t be credible. besides those cases (and similar), I do not bloody care about actors’ ethnicity. Just give me great scripts, ideas and actors, and I’m all for that.
No, would you watch a Sanford and Son remake if they were white? A Jefferson remake with a white George? Just let it go…
Bill here’s one for you. Sanford and Son was a remake of an English program called Step toe and Son which had an all white cast.
Put it on.. my family would love to watch it… Netflix needs to put it on….
I asked 50 people if Netflix put it on their network 46 out of 50 said yes….
So do it Netflix….
I really went looking for it and yes I would love it and art work is very beautiful I love and yes would definitely watch I love diversity GOD us all in his image so to see this is lovely 😍
Yes definitely
It wouldn’t be known as the Addams family, rather the Dlamini family….
This is ridiculous now, stop turning everything to black people I’m not racist or against blacks but if we wanted black panther to be white would y’all allow it? Or how bout Tiana from princess and the frog’ it’d be a uproar, this is just as silly, stupid as people who claim santa is black cause Santa was based off a white man thank u very much
Yes I would really watch it
Grow up. It’s not that serious
you that mad?? lmao “im not aganist blacks” kinda sounds like you are
Big mad
Nope.
Woooow this is just Brilliant I love it