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Found some hands tutorial by me

under the cut because it got really long:

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Here’s a few different ways I usually draw body types

So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know. 

Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.

Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!

Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils. Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses. Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)

If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE. 

Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.

Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.

OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS

Some quick animation smear guides I put together for a friend! not sure if it works as a tutorial without my in person commentary, also more intended as a guide to show examples of basic/common smear types :O

ghdlfjsdf thank you!! sorry it took me a lil bit to answer, i wanted to illustrate instead of just talk cuz im not very good at teaching

anyways heres a picture of the muscles in our arms!

there are a lot of individual muscles, but i like to separate them into groups in order to simplify and stylize them cuz i use a lot of shapes to build my characters. the most important ones shapewise are your deltoid (yellow), triceps (green), biceps (orange), and then the forearm, which is just one big shape for me. heres how i usually do with my oc kat:

its basically four shapes – deltoid, triceps+biceps, forearm, and hand.i used to be terrible at drawing buff more muscular people, but i started improving a lot once i started watching jojo! its art style is SUPER over-exaggerated, but to me at least it helped point out the different muscles and what shapes i should be making, and then i toned it down and adapted it to my own art style. like, look at this wild shit (which is really good out of context):

but anyways you can see the same muscle groups, right? tone it down to something more normal-human-being and you get this:

you can see the muscle groups, and you use them as a guideline to shape the outside of your arm (which, btw, the more “bumpy/shapely” parts of the arm are on the thumb side; the outer side of the arm is smoother/straighter!), and you usually want to lightly suggest the shapes of the muscles instead of drawing them like the characters skin is vaccu-formed onto it (unless theyre a bodybuilder or theyre straining/doing something that causes the muscles to flex/be prominent, like exercising or carrying something heavy).

i also think its important to make the rest of your character proportional to their arms? like, broader chest, bigger hands, bigger thighs/legs. ofc that differs depending on how you want your character to look, but kat looks more natural to me if the rest of her is as big as her arms would suggest.

HANDS!!! sorry for my bad hand writing