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Hair Tip #1 - When drawing hair, start with the hairline and hair part(s). Then keep the flow and volume in mind while you add details!

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Hello! In celebration of a new year, I’m gonna show all of you a tip how to draw lips for Black/African/Dark Skinned people. 

If you’re drawing a black/dark skinned person, the top lip is a slight step above or below their actual skin tone while the bottom lip can range from a faded pink to brown. 

Black/African men’s and women’s lip lean towards “nude/palm of the hand” makeup color. Some cases it’s pink but everyone’s lip color varies from pink to brown. In my experience of going outside my house, the darker the person, the pinker the bottom lip is while the lighter brown skin lips will be closer to their actual skin tone.

Another note is that the pink /brown tone on the bottom of the lip is near the slit of the mouth, not the complete lip like lipstick makeup. Try adding different tones to a lip and blending both top and bottom lips together because everyone’s different! A very good detail to remember. 

I’ll give you a weird secret.  After you put the glowing object on a dark background, surround the white parts with a halo of highly saturated color.  Observe:

It doesn’t have to be that blatant- smaller outlines of color, blended properly with the background, can make an equally effective glow-y look :)

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The basis of my understanding of figures are from fashion sketching (which are extremely elongated figures; my fashion figures were generally 10 heads tall), so while I’m not the most qualified person to ask, I’ll give it a shot!

The body is just several shapes put together. There are some lines you can distinguish to make the drawing process a little easier. I always always always map out a rough sketch of the pose before I draw the clothed figure.

When drawing poses, you can use your guidelines to help you find where everything goes. In fashion figures, there is almost always a high hip, so I always find which way the hip and shoulders are going first.