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[ouramateur]

[dumgumgum]

she was my sister too

[penumbraphantism]

[venomstigmata]

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[ilynpilled]

i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure, redemptive, or salvific. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[shyday-ao3]

[keibay]

Dungeon Master Marcille... [ref]

[commissions]

[frowningclown]

You guys don’t understand how many times I’ve seen SKINNY yuri charpim fanart… I needed to right all those wrongs

[thewitchofart]

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

literally every single tomodachi life screenshot i see has miis that look like either of these options and idk how to feel about this

[raccootic]

cropped art

i mightve started a project or something. here is some cropped pieces though, from said project. hope ya like it

[entityoffline]

sorry he got a little nervous

[yakowo]

🥂

[nonbinary-jakey]

the thing about "white boy stuns cashier by ordering in flawless sumerian" is like. if anyone was going to do that it would be mf doom. mf doom would probably have released a concept album in attic greek at this point if he hadn't been killed by the british government. just because he wanted to fuck with people

[altonascends]

Sorry killed by the Brit’s. What. Huh. Explain.

[slumberditch]

he had multiple illnesses exacerbated by the stress caused by the british government’s treatment of his and his family’s citizenship for one, and as this article explains, his death was due to a reaction to medicine given to him by doctors in Leeds, who were hours late with their response to his reaction, even though his wife was urging them to help him. so yeah. fuck every british institution ever and rest in peace to the greatest of all time.

[creatingblackcharacters]

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Please take the time to review the one relevant to your questions! They are long- some longer than others- but they likely have a link contained within that can better guide your research!

📝Syllabus📝

Lesson 1: "White Man Painted Black"?

Lesson 1.5: "Hair for Thought"- how visualizing affects your writing

Lesson 2: “That One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!” Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)

Lesson 2.1: Addendum to Hair pt 1

Lesson 2: "It Takes HOW LONG?" Black Hair is an Art (pt.2)

Application! Examples of Protective Hair Coverings

Application! Ice's Lazy Loc Wash Routine

Application! How to: Simplified Braid

Application! Daisy E's Simplified Hair Drawing

Lesson 3: "Defying the Default"- Skin Tones and the Presence of Black Characters

Application! What are Black fans looking for in Commissions?

Lesson 4: "Do Black People Blush?" Bringing brown complexions to life

Application! Humanæ- Resource for Skin Palettes!

Lesson 5: "The Same Place As the Music" Lighting & Color

Lesson 6: "Let's Have A Talk, First" Stereotypes, pt 1

Lesson 6: “Why’s she so rude?” (She’s Not)- Stereotypes, pt 2

Lesson 6: "Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)"- Stereotypes, pt 3

Application! How to Spot a Stereotype: An Example

Lesson 7: "That's the Black one!"- Imagery and "Black-Coded" Characters

Lesson 8: “Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?” Multiethnic and Multicultural Blackness

Lesson 9: “Romance Will Not Solve Racism”- Interracial/Biracial/Blended Black and White Relationships and Families

Application! "Not Black Enough"

Lesson 10: “The Ambiguously Brown Character™”- The Attachment to Eurocentric Beauty Standards

Lesson 11: “No, That’s Not ‘How Color Works’.” - Whitewashing

Lesson 12: “The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth” - Violence, Violent Imagery & Black Horror

Lesson 13: “It’s Giving” AAVE, and the Denied Yet Undeniable Impact of Black Culture

Lesson 14: “On Human Dignity.”  Blackness, Gender & Sexuality

Lesson 15: How To Guide Your Research

Lesson 16: "Make Your Peace With The Chaos..." Childhood While Black

Lesson 17: "D.N.A."- Blackness and Health/Medical Antiblackness

Application! Where do I find books by Black authors?

Application! @carmahnart 's Afro Index for Black Hairstyles!

[thewitchofart]

I made an analysis about this, since I'd like to get a safe place for SA survivors where they can express their stories and feelings.

WEIRD ROUTE AS A SA ALLEGORY

Trigger warning: Sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child on child sexual abuse, abuse, violence, dissociation Introduction 3 What does a S

Note: I recommend you to download this as a PDF. So you can understand better. Since I put a text next to image like this.

[tac-bat]

this is a really intriguing read, and I highly urge you guys to check it out!