How To Draw Native People: A Tutorial/Reference Guide

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

get drawin!!

“A-Ning, remember this. The Wen Clan's actions do not represent us. We come from a lineage of doctors. We save people .” -Wen Qing

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It is time for some fanart of the best doctor ever. I really wanna draw more of her.

art is hard work, in case nobody’s told you today

Art is hard work, and it is often unreasonable to come home from your day job or your school or both and then sit down and expect yourself to be a creative font.

Art is hard work. If it’s especially hard for you today I want to remind you it’s not because you are lazy, but that art is hard work.

a small Texture Tutorial

I’ve been asked a few times about how I use textures, especially gold textures, so I’ve decided to try and do a little tutorial about it. I’ve never really done a tutorial, but I hope it’s easy to understand, since it’s not difficult to apply :)

There are a hundred ways of doing the same thing, this is just one of those ways. For other (BETTER) tutorials explaining more about textures and other ways to use them, I point you all towards the 3 tutorials that taught ME the basics!

TUTORIAL: how to use textures by agosbeatle

TUTORIAL: Applying texture by Shinerai

Texture tutorial by Tervola

“A-Ning, remember this. The Wen Clan’s actions do not represent us. We come from a lineage of doctors. We save people .” -Wen Qing

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It is time for some fanart of the best doctor ever. I really wanna draw more of her.

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Thumbnailing

It’s here! For those artists who spend loads of time trying to figure out why their art is not coming out the way they want it to be, making thumbnails (or making studies) is the thing for you! It’s also great of getting rid of the habit of zooming in.

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