If I'd only seen the second picture, I would never have had the association 'black' - the closeup is a different matter. Then again, I'm reasonably familiar with the DAZ figures, so I'm kind of used to the look. [*]
Stepping back a little further, I think the problem of portraying the 'good' gods as blond and nordic and the 'bad' one as _other_ - whatever shape the othernerness takes - is a problem full stop.
[*] That's another rant altogether. When I was building a runtime, I was looking to find characters that would allow me to depict humanity-as-I-know-it. You can get an endless supply of white female characters with supermodel features; different ethnicities and skin colours and particularly hairstyles or clothes can be exceedingly hard to find. There's an endless argument cycle of 'we don't produce it because it doesn't sell but if it doesn't exist, people can't buy it'.
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Stepping back a little further, I think the problem of portraying the 'good' gods as blond and nordic and the 'bad' one as _other_ - whatever shape the othernerness takes - is a problem full stop.
[*] That's another rant altogether. When I was building a runtime, I was looking to find characters that would allow me to depict humanity-as-I-know-it. You can get an endless supply of white female characters with supermodel features; different ethnicities and skin colours and particularly hairstyles or clothes can be exceedingly hard to find. There's an endless argument cycle of 'we don't produce it because it doesn't sell but if it doesn't exist, people can't buy it'.