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!!
