Do You Have Tips For Drawing Black Ppl? Not Like Refs Or Anything Bc Thats Obvious, But Stuff Like Colour

do you have tips for drawing black ppl? not like refs or anything bc thats obvious, but stuff like colour picking and how to properly colour someone of colour.

glad you asked!! Well theres a tutorial by my friend Jojo  here  about drawing black folks (there isn’t a post for tumblr soz), one by chuwenjie here  about drawing asians (i think its predominately south east asians)  and one by peachdeluxe here about avoiding whiteashing darkskins when drawing darkskins as zombies etc! Another friend of mine on things to avoid here!  (in terms of racist caricature). I included the asian one since I feel its a good tutorial…! These tutorials are really informative, the last one is common sense but apparently not for a lot of artists, so its there just to be careful. 

As for general tips, look at references, colour picking is NOT a crime, its not accurate but its better than actually white washing them and it can help  get the best shade! Most poc have red-orange-yellow undertones, so grey-ish colours aren’t really great or a direct darker shade isn’t the best. 

um for how I draw darker skinned people and pick my colours will be going under a read more! 

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one of the things that i'm very angry about in naruto and shipp. is how shino was treated. people called him weird and wouldn't sit next to him, and for what? because he had bugs in his body? hun that's an OP recon man and fighter right there. he needed to kick kiba's ass last week.

100% true. all of this.

and another thing that bothers me is how underappreciated he is.

this man BLEW OFF SOMEONE ARMS,

DEFEATED A WHOLE FLEET OF SHIPS BY HIMSELF IN ONE OF THE NARUTO MOVIES (i know that doesn’t really apply to the show because it’s a movie BUT STILL),

FOUGHT HIS REANIMATED BROTHER IN THE WAR,

and a ton of other stuff just to get left behind by his “friends” ninety percent of the time and be forgotten.

what does he have to do?? what does have to do to be acknowledged???

and weird??? shino’s more interesting than half the people is his class in my opinion.

I know I’m not the best artist and I have a cartoon art style, but I still hope this helps someone! I’ve also never drawn a tutorial so like idk if this makes a whole lot of sense. 

Edit: Regarding the last slide, while true for some people this doesn’t apply to everyone, i based it on “personal experience” and was informed that with some the colour stays the same throughout, my bad :/

If you experienced trauma in childhood or had a rough childhood, dude listen to me. Offer yourself play. You were deprived of it.

Keep bubbles in the house, blow bubbles in the yard, blow them in your room, get a coloring book that doesn’t have to be an adult one with mandalas, watch cartoons, laugh at stupid things, dress up as a superhero for Halloween, wear a Santa hat on Christmas and big light up snowflake earrings, lay down on the floor, lay down in the grass, eat eggos for dinner sometimes. It’s not stupid. You’re not childish. You’re giving your inner child what they had taken from them. They deserve it.

Personally, everytime I'm feeling bad and don't know why, I drink water. Even when it doesn't solve the problem, it distracts from the pain and I get more hydrated. It also helps me with aknowledging that something's wrong and actually doing something about it even if it's just taking a sip of water. I think it's very important when you're disabled(especially undiagnosed) and have been taught your whole life to ignore your problems so you don't inconvenience others.

Hey! Fellow ND people!

Do you struggle to drink water/stay hydrated?

Here's something I'm trying out, it might help you too.

y'know drinking games? Generally done with alcohol

Do them with water

Pull up your favourite show and every time they say the name of a character you like, drink some water.

Open up your favourite youtuber and every time they do something that makes you laugh, drink some water.

I'm like...80% sure that's how drinking games work

even if they don't, it can still be useful to you!

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Some assholes have been putting nails in cheese and treats in dog parks in Chicago and Massachusetts. Also adding antifreeze to water bowls.

Please watch out for your dogs. And if you find out the address of someone doing this, give me the address and tell no one. I will disembowel them.