How To Draw Black People - Tumblr Posts

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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