So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know.
Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.
Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!
Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils.
Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses.
Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)
If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE.
Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.
Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.
Ok so for those of you who are also bad with following social cues and don’t get how he destroyed her
The gifs are from Project Runway, and the woman is a judge who is supposed to be offering useful critique regarding what the man has made. In the first gif, she insults the colour of the lace, and offers no useful advice, like a proper critique should. She’s supposed to be helping him, and is instead using her authority to insult him. In the second gif, he thanks her, which calls out the fact that she was supposed to give advice and didn’t, and that she is now in the wrong. In the third gif, she’s assumed that he’s arrogant, and attempts drives in the insult by pointing out she wasn’t complementing him, but instead sets herself up to get rekt. In the fourth gif, he points out that he didn’t take it as a compliment, thus subtly calling her out on the fact that she wasn’t delivering the critique she was supposed to give, and was instead being a bitch for the sake of being a bitch, and also making it clear that SHE KNEW she wasn’t doing her job. All in a way where he can’t be called on being rude to a judge.
The fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over.
the fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over
^Haiku^bot^8. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.
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