#white ppl arent even as light as white ppl draw themselves and its honestly kinda sad

[murcielagatito]

no bc actually???? hold on. imma start this by saying im not black. im a brown indigenous puertorican and my grandfather is afrolatino

okay lets get to it. using variety to show the range of their skin tones. the first two r screencaps directly from the show and the third is from a professional photographer. when in video format ofc its gonna be more difficult to catch properly bc theyre perpetually in motion and lighting affects the way skin tone looks but in the photograph you can see a better example of their natural skin tones. the lighting is really good like the photographer clearly knows how to photograph dark skin tones

you CANNOT just color grab skin tones and call it a day thats not how this shit works. they look ashy and sad. janine doesnt even have a curl pattern that shit is wavy

ill put my money where my mouth is. heres the exact screenshot i drew over for my first time drawing workwives (im honestly not too happy with how barbara came out and wanna fix her later) vs this person. a key thing in my art is i LOVE using saturation. in my personal opinion it makes art feel more alive

my favorite rendered janine ever. there is literally nothing wrong with going darker with skin tones ESPECIALLY taking into consideration what kind of color palettes you use. there will always however be an issue when you draw them lighter

and now some tutorial links from black artists <3

how to draw curls tweet thread

tutorial on lighting darker skin + drawing black features

coloring dark skin

drawing black people in anime style

thread of several diff tutorials