Aquarius

Aquarius

My design for my zodiac sign. This was made with sharpie pen and marker.

This is the preliminary drawing. I had to make some adjustments for the final piece. That will be made with printmaking.

I made several different prints of my Aquarius piece. The first one is the final design developed from the preliminary design. The rest of them were made while experimenting with colored inks and papers.

My first time drawing Sailor Moon in over a decade. 

I made this in my figure drawing class last Friday. I still like how this turned out.

I’m currently working on a comic where a couple of my main characters are black. This will be a great source to use. Thank you. 

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

Another point commission requested by @carameja. She wanted me to draw her OCs Kasar and Ebina training together.