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Happy New Year by lei min

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i didn’t mean to make this so long but i wanted to both analyze my own style and give other people a look into it! I hope someone can find some use for it! 

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Hello, friends!

It’s Meg again and welcome back to this weeks TUTOR TUESDAY! Today we take a look at how to create characters using shapes and exaggeration!

Have any recommendations for tutorials? Send a message either to this blog or my personal one. Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next Tuesday!

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disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I'm just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

if a white person reblogs this and adds something stupid I'm going to bite and kick you like a wild animal

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I made an art tutorial on how to draw hijab and hijabis!

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A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

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I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)

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How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.

Edit: please stop telling me about how Native people can be pale, I’m a whitepassing & pale Native myself and nowhere do I say people shouldn’t draw Natives pale at all. The “too light” section is about whitewashing Pocahontas specifically. Don’t whitewash brown characters, but don’t draw Natives red either.

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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 East 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!!

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somewhere between good and evil

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I wish companies would do a better job at stealing my information. If ur gonna give me 2 youtube ads in a row make sure I do t already have the product and let it be for things I actually want.

#put a bit of effort it #seriously honna ask for all my vookies and not eat them #maybe this is my sign to fianlly get an ad blocker #information thieves #youtube #cookies #data

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It's often discussed that in Harry Potter its much easier to hate Professor Umbridge than Voldemort. Because most people have never had to deal with a fascist looking to commit genocide. But almost everyone, especially younger people know what it's like to have a cruel/mean teacher.

I have certainly agreed with this sentiment in the past.

But currently, as I look around and see people in my government like Ron Desantis and Marjorie Taylor Green. When I see celebrities like JK Rowling and Kanye West...

I find it easier and easier to hate voldemort just as much, if not more than Umbridge.

#harry potter #current events #homophobia #transphobia #antisemitism #voldemort #professor umbridge #ironic that jk rowling can be compared to her own villian

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“a gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost grisha, a suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the barrel who had become something worse..”

“what bound them together? greed? desperation? was it just the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking?”

NO MOURNERS!

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Just realized when Kaz says "my mother is Ketterdam. She birthed my in the harbor"

He's talking about when he woke up among the floating bodies. His rebirth as Kaz Brekker was literally in the harbor of Ketterdam. Holy fuck

#six of crows #shadow and bone #shadow and bone s2 #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #kaz reitveld #grishaverse #how did i not realize this sooner

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I hate this ship with everything in me

“The more they came close, the more destiny pushed them apart.”

#they might as well be twins #literally id rather ship loki with kang #everytime i see this a part of my soul dies off a little more #loki #loki series #tom hiddleston #loki laufeyson #lokiedit #marvel #marveledit #mcu

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Reblogging for when I go to college next year

A NYC grad student working on food stamps for her thesis has released a free cookbook for those living on $4/day.

#broke cookbook

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