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Drawing While Black: A social media celebration of Black Artists
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I'm currently gushing about her with my friends. I don't think I can stan any harder than I already do, and I've know about her all of 5 minutes.Welcome to the cult of Muna
i need an anime of this
Welcome to the cult of Muna
i need an anime of this
I am completely obsessed with these. Instant follow.
Came across her art afew years ago browsing through a turban loving site
https://turbanista.com/archive
best site on the web
*from the top* Yeah this is a pretty cool design and...I want a story about this one. So cool.
*reaching the bottom* Fuck yeah, I kind of need this character's story and to know more about her and her world.
Was gonna come in here to share my love of munadraws & Yesenia, but people have done so before!
Also, the artist who created the magnificent turban girl art is BeaGifted and here's her Insta:
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Really love the initiative of this hashtag and thread existing, I'm always into discovering new talents!
Also, the artist who created the magnificent turban girl art is BeaGifted and here's her Insta:
BeaGifted (@bea.gifted) • Instagram photos and videos
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Really love the initiative of this hashtag and thread existing, I'm always into discovering new talents!
Was gonna come in here to share my love of munadraws & Yesenia, but people have done so before!
Also, the artist who created the magnificent turban girl art is BeaGifted and here's her Insta:
BeaGifted (@bea.gifted) • Instagram photos and videos
Really love the initiative of this hashtag and thread existing, I'm always into discovering new talents!
This is super cute.
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NiceWas gonna come in here to share my love of munadraws & Yesenia, but people have done so before!
Also, the artist who created the magnificent turban girl art is BeaGifted and here's her Insta:
BeaGifted (@bea.gifted) • Instagram photos and videos
Really love the initiative of this hashtag and thread existing, I'm always into discovering new talents!
Thought the watermark was enough
There was a really cool little bit on the news around here not long ago that featured the first black comic artist for i think the New Yorker. She did amazing work, and it's wild to think she was the first black person to be in that position. I'll see if I can find the link, I can't even remember her name sadly but the pieces they showed on the news segment were great. Maybe it was on good morning America or a similar show.
Edit: Here she is! Liz Montague.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/you...oonist-speaks-diversity-art/story?id=68941786
Here's the Today Show segment:
https://www.today.com/video/meet-th...frican-american-female-cartoonist-78852677980
Edit: Here she is! Liz Montague.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/you...oonist-speaks-diversity-art/story?id=68941786
Here's the Today Show segment:
https://www.today.com/video/meet-th...frican-american-female-cartoonist-78852677980
Well, ironically enough, I actually... had not seen it. I had to go on that tumblr archive, look for the art in there hoping they just reblogged it from the original artist, which they actually didn't, it was a repost, but they left a credit under with the artist's real name, so then I googled "Brittany Jackson art", found her website, and her actual artist nickname, then googled that nickname and finally found her SNS accounts, which I thought were absolutely worth the share. I always prefer to share artists' websites and SNS instead of sharing their arts being reposted through external conglomerate websites. Because my end goal was: to give her a follow.
But granted, I was a dumbdumb for not noticing that watermark in the first place, could have made my quest for her Insta much much quicker & easier than that.
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I'm not as good as most artist on here, but I'm black and I'm a full-time artist so here you go :-)
But you wouldn't have had a detective novel's worth of investigating adventure if you noticed :)
Give me pretty art to feast my eyes on, and I'll go above and beyond to follow artists providing those. Thanks again for the discovery 💜
I am definitely feeling this in a big way. Someone gotta make this a show or a book or something.Welcome to the cult of Muna
i need an anime of this
Someone I just found on Pintrest
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This person should hit up some musicians and do some cover art for them. A lot of their stuff has that look about them.
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This person should hit up some musicians and do some cover art for them. A lot of their stuff has that look about them.
With all due respect, that is a horrible topic title even if it's a hastag. Considering all the bullshit, I came in expecting black artists to be arrested or worse by the police.
Complaints about the title and hashtag will be ignored
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Complaints about the hashtag and thread title will be considered drive by posts. My thread title is explained in detail with in the OP.
If you wanna come in here and immediately assume this was a case of Black folks facing more injustice well what can I tell you.
Oh no wait, if you all gave a damn about marginalized people's humanity and worth this hashtag and thread wouldn't be needed.
Tdlr; stop complaining about the title and hashtag in this thread.
Complaints about the hashtag and thread title will be considered drive by posts. My thread title is explained in detail with in the OP.
If you wanna come in here and immediately assume this was a case of Black folks facing more injustice well what can I tell you.
Oh no wait, if you all gave a damn about marginalized people's humanity and worth this hashtag and thread wouldn't be needed.
Tdlr; stop complaining about the title and hashtag in this thread.
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You can copy the link and insert to the media url tool we have in a post. Or just copy paste the link in the thread is fine too.
I have a the print of the very Black and Fabulous royalty couple hanging on my wall from Muna. That's relationship and live goals lol.
As a fantasy illustration fan, I really like Eric Wilkerson's work. He does a lot of novel covers and Marvel publishing stuff.
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It 100% needs to be a permanent trend. I'm amazed I never came across this hashtag before. Like I posted on my Twitter, our contributions to the world shouldn't be limited to just BHM, and should be celebrated year round.
I feel weird plugging my own art, but if anyone wants to check me out, my art Instagram is @figboy.fundamentals, but I'm not a fan of their cropping/compression, so I post full size images on my Twitter (as well as tumblr): @StefanoTerry
This thread is amazing, and man, I have found so many new artists to follow! Thank you!
Hey, feel free to post some in here if you want. I'd love it if this thread stayed active, I've learned about tons of really awesome artists through this.
I just want to shout out Brian Stelfreeze when he was drawing for Black Panther during Ta-Nehisi Coates run. I had a chance to meet him at a convention. He told me about how he chose to represent light and dark skin tones in Wakanda and royalty, and how it referenced apartheid, segregation and colour in American media. Really smart guy.
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Damn. Is he commonly well respected? I only really know him from that run.
Thomas Zenteno on Twitter
“Hey y'all I'm a visdev artist lining in LA. I like storytelling through environments! Much❤️ #drawingwhileblack”
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Odera Igbokwe on Twitter
“Happy #drawingwhileblack 2020! My name is Odera and I love exploring fantasy through the lens of mythology, fashion, healing rifts in diaspora, and magical girl transformation realness ✨ Learn more about me at https://t.co/Mi9VooaM6X Or follow me on IG @ Odyism”
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Odera Igbokwe on Twitter
“When I’m not creating client work, I am creating personal work in traditional media that explores and alchemizes Nigerian and afro-diasporic deities, orishas, and sacred traditions. They are the centerpiece of my patreon at https://t.co/FcklZf5bIv #drawingwhileblack #odera”
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Okolo Oliver on Twitter
“I recreated the famous painting “Girl with the pearl earring” into a black woman in celebration of the #BlackHistoryMonth Art is the only way I know to speak and air my opinion about everything. #drawingwhileblack”
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Motherfucking unreal. The whole thread is aesthetics central.
Holy shit I hate using twitter on desktop.
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I picked up a couple of amazing artists to follow thanks to this thread. One of my personal favorite artists to follow is:
And this is some of my stuff:
And this is some of my stuff:
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Didn't see this thread earlier so I'mma bump it with some of my work, though a lot of the stuff posted in here has me ready to hit the drawing board to try and level up some. Some of the pieces I've seen on twitter are incredible.
Wow, you're both super talented. :o