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Zithembe,
meaning Trust yourself in Zulu.
It sounds very nice.

I set my artistic research goal for the year to be Africans, African American and Buildings. Nothing intensive, but the focus is there.
I had some break throughs recently, thank god. @_@b It's not easy to get over the main stream stereotyping when it's all around you, I am more interested in documented facts, but to gather those facts all together and work into my art did take some thinking.

There are so few good African American (Can I just say "Blacks?" It's so much shorter!) characters in anime/manga, it won't harm to have a few more, so I am going to make a few more, hopefully I protray them well...

Its a sketch, i will put it away later...
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:iconjboazmajesty:
I love the colors!
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:iconimperfectdestruction:
Pretty cool.
I'm going to have to look at your gallery more
to improve on my own black characters (im too scared to color them)
Anyway, cool move on trying out black characters.
Make my people look good.
lol
Oh BTW
You can say "blacks".
It is much shorter.
lol
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:iconstarkamus-prime:
Thats very ambitious of you. I'd love to see more of it.
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:iconjaggedice200:
Nice sketch
The multiple folds really
help with the pose. And finally someone
colors us blacks right :P
He look like he could be a future street fighter character "Ryu/Ken disciple" :P
Keep up the study work
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=mayshing Dec 28, 2006  Professional Filmographer
just curious, what does it look like when someone colors the blacks "wrong?"
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:iconjaggedice200:
one main one is popo from dragon ballz
Theres another thats from a anime that conisted of mulitiple
androids in red suits that air on cartoon network but I dont remember
the name of it.

Now adays though, people are coloring them better. Its funny how most of the are usually indian decent, most of the well made characters come off as indian, Scar, nadia, even that girl from "Oh my goddess". But its really a small agrument now adays but I love it when I see someone who draws african american and gets down the spirit of how s/he acts in posture and attitude.
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=mayshing Dec 28, 2006  Professional Filmographer
I think Popo is some sort of an alien/Indian creature. lol~
Looking like Indians, that makes sense, because eastern asians are more familiar with indians than black ppl.
Since in eastern asia, people all pretty much look the same, usually when they observe black ppl, it's mostly from Hollywood, unfortunately. ^^;
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=mayshing Dec 28, 2006  Professional Filmographer
^^b thank you.
I find black's skin quite intriquing, offering something most others don't have. :nod:
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:icondaiko-n:
-I know that this is just a sketch/quick study, but this is still good, solid work nonetheless- I was surprised to see that you have this in scraps, but that's due to the fact that this is practice for you (I really like studies though- just because some are quickly rendered doesn't mean that they're scrap-worthy...)

-good luck on your quest for improvement and art skill raising!

Anyway, I love how painterly and Soft this is~ 'tis akin to a Watercolor study, but in digital media (did you use Open Canvas for this? -you didn't list what software you used and I'm curious...)


Thank you for sharing.





-Daiko~
(has finally become human.)
(pray for me...)
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=mayshing Nov 7, 2006  Professional Filmographer
Corel Painter 9. :nod:
Well... perhaps I will reconsider putting him back at the main gallery now that you commented that way.
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