Drawing In Color

A tumblr dedicated to artists of color and a place to find tutorials on how to draw people of color. If you are an artist of color feel free to submit your work through DMs, tags or then submit option!

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How to Draw Native People: a Tutorial/Reference Guide

As requested, here is a basic guide for how to draw Indigenous peoples (mostly focused on North America)! Also please note that this is not an exhaustive list of Native American phenotypes/features, and more like an intro on very common features that can be found in us, and even then, not altogether at once on a single person’s face. I highly encourage the use of references and care taken into research when drawing. I may do a part 2 that goes slightly more into depth, but for now, enjoy part one.

Resouces:

How to draw Native Skin tutorial (don’t draw us red!)

List of Native American Celebrities, which include their tribe(s) and home country, with 1,250 names, to use for your referencing pleasure

How to draw black people by Peachdeluxe, & Black hair in depth by misslaney for mixed black Natives

How to draw Asian People, a guide by Chuwenjie, for mixed Asian Natives AND because it includes a lovely tutorial on monolid eyes, a shared feature of Native people

get drawin!!

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Here’s a collection of tips I’ve learned and use for coloring darker skin tones. I hope this helps people out who want to diversify their art!

Note; I’m not an expert, and I’m mostly drawing from experiences and my cultural background.

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I’m going down the Barbie movies lane🌸

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by @wootnik​

[ami0amii]

Do you have any tips on how to color the light underside of a dark skinned person's palm? How much lighter should it be, and should it be pale or have a redder tint like blush? I'm white and I worry I've been doing it incorrectly.

OH   B O I  ~

Eesh, coloring darkskin palms is one of those things i’m good at doing but not so good at explaining, so i’ll try my best on this one

Okay so starting off

The palm of a dark skin person’s hand is simply just a reflection of their undertone

Everyone has an undertone and black people are no different. A dark skin person’s palm is a part of their hand that has little to no melanin. Without all of that melanin the only thing that’s left is their undertone

Black people with an orange undertone tend to have orange looking palms

Black people with a neutral undertone tend to have a mixture of pinkish orange-ish looking palms

And black people with red undertones tend to have pink looking palms

So how exactly do you determine the palm color and undertone of a darkskin black person?

ight so  B  O O M,

When it comes to a black person with a neutral skin tone rather than raising the color up in the Spectrum simply just lighten the skin

Skin tone can be complicated so I made a few examples:

Make sure when coloring black palms to always add a gradient

(( Many artists have done this and I too am guilty of it so dont sweat it ))

♡Hope these tips help you out♡

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POC blush tutorial

Feel free to repost, but please credit me

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How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please <0<

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.

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Castlevania inspired vampire that I’ll definitely be converting for a VtM ttrpg if/when I ever bump into a game to play.

Either way expect to see more of her in the near future!

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Drew my girlfriend

She makes me happy

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A new oc?? I really love the colours in this one.

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my full “rejoicing in our hair” collection!! these were the final pieces for a project for college! ✨💜

“Originally this was a college project. We were to choose a current or past event / article and create a narrative piece from it. I chose the "Natural Hair Ban of Pretoria High” that unfolded back in 2016. I created a set of 6 paintings that depict black cultural and natural hairstyles worn by black people all over the world. The black women here are seen rejoicing in their hair, through expressions of pride, joy and love. Its a direct juxtaposed response to the ban on hair and made to encourage black people all over the world who are discriminated against because of their hair"

theres only one public speedpaint! The rest are all available on my patreon. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work 💖

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“beautiful weapon.”

A repaint I did of my first portrait of Zia! Time sure does fly….

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yes, cahira invents fashion for jedi and lightsaber charms. she single-handedly saves the jedi in doing so, ur welcome

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[drawingincolor]

oh my gosh this account is going to be so helpful!! I've been looking for something like this forever, thank you :0

No problem! I'm just glad I can help!

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Also if anyone has any questions feel free to ask!

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So I organized a bit and added more tags, so for reference

#tutorial - step by step instructions. specific things are also tagged: #hair, #skin, #facial-features, #eyes

#resource - culmination of materials, links to books/media/literature or reference pictures

#feature - work by an artist of color, tagged along with their username and type of media (traditional, digital, etc)