Oof

also let's ppl as young as 14 drive the death machines we call cars to and from their job late at night

let me re-emphasize this part:

here are some examples of skin colours i have colourpicked from various pieces of fanart (left) compared to swatches i have colourpicked from photos of ryan in various lighting (right).

as you can see, the ones picked from fanart are a lot lighter than the ones picked from photos. i personally think its pretty obvious why this is a problem.

here are the photos i used and the tones next to them, i also included the darkest shadown and lightest highlight.

how can we fix this problem ?

1. use a reference

2. colourpick

3. watch + read tutorials on colouring skin

4. watch + read tutorials on colour theory

5. watch + read tutorials on drawing people of colour in general

now unfortunately i do not have any good tutorials to link at the minute, but if you are aware of any, please feel free to link them. i will also be looking for some and linking them of course.

oh, this applies to the problem of people colouring ryan way too dark as well.

a general rule of thumb however, is if you are colouring a drawing and ryans skin is/would be the same colour as shanes ? then there is a problem.