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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

There is actually a free program everyone can download called DesignDoll which has unlimited posable models if you need more then just two or just simply don’t have the money to buy these figurines. The program is easy to work with and I’d recommend it to everybody! 

☆ DesignDoll main site ☆

Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects

Lightzone to replace Lightroom

Inkscape to replace Illustratr

Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

cursed emoji this….. cursed emoji that….. how about nice emoji :)

sharing the knowledge

Tumblr is apparently getting pretty serious about deleting people with multiple unused URLs for violating community guidelines. If you’re going to use multiple URLs for whatever reason (you’re saving one for a cool blog idea you’ve got, you’re seeing what combos of header and background the blog generator spits out, you’re a pastel moodboard blogger and you’ve gotta differentiate between dusty rose, millennial pink, and rose gold, you’re trying to follow in aquafresh’s steps and re-start woody’s roundup) - WHATEVER the reason - you have to use those blogs like blogs. If you’ve got an empty sideblog URL (even just ONE empty blog) Tumblr may decide to treat it like a bot and delete your whole ass blog.

This is ESPECIALLY true if there’s a recent uptick in bot activity on tumblr (and I can’t be the only one who has gotten twenty messages about “pics for u” this week).

So if you’re generating new URLs please put something on them.