This post is the follow-up to Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Identity. If you haven’t read that already, check it out. In part one, I mainly focused on color theory. When I originally presented a quick overview of…

 This topic confused some people the last time I brought it up, so let me be clear. This is an art post about how to observe and paint light and shadow on human figures with dark skin. It is not…

So, one thing I’ve grown to appreciate since starting a comic is it’s really, REALLY easy to go off-model. Most (all?) sequential artists and animators know this. And now I’m gonna try to talk about it ahahahaha *sobs* So when…