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🧵Good morning, friends! Today marks the 13th #VisibleWomen event! This will be a thread that goes over the history & basics then we'll get started. Submission instructions also posted here: milkfed.us/events/visible…
What is the #VisibleWomen project? It's a effort to raise the profiles of women in the comic book industry **in order to get them work**. (More on that last part in a bit.)
For the next roughly 8 hours, this feed will signal boost portfolio & CV links of women in comics and related industries. We will then put those names and links on a spreadsheet database that is made available FOR FREE to any hiring professionals in the industry. #VisibleWomen
🧵Good morning, friends! Today marks the 12th #VisibleWomen event! This will be a thread that goes over the history & basics then we'll get started. Submission instructions also posted here: bit.ly/VW322
What is the #VisibleWomen project? It's a effort to raise the profiles of women in the comic book industry **in order to get them work**. (More on that last part in a bit.)
For the next roughly 8 hours, we will signal boost portfolio & CV links from women in the comic book and publishing industries. We will then put those names and links on a spreadsheet that is made available FOR FREE to any hiring professionals in the industry. #VisibleWomen
Good morning, friends! Today is #VisibleWomen day. This will be a thread that goes over the history & basics then we'll get started. (Instructions also posted here: milkfed.us/events/save-th… )
What is the #VisibleWomen project? It's a effort to raise the profiles of women (and not-men) in the comic book industry **in order to get them work**. (More on that last part in a bit.)
For the next roughly 8 hours, we will signal boost portfolio & CV links from women in the comic book and publishing industries. We will then put those names and links on a spreadsheet that is made available FOR FREE to any hiring professionals in the industry. #VisibleWomen
The next #VisibleWomen is Monday, March 29. This is gonna be a thread about that.
I should probably start at the start -- the first #VisibleWomen day was in 2016. It started out of frustration at the perception that it was hard to find women who were qualified or wanted to draw mainstream comics. The first VW was for artists only. It went well.
So we did it again 6 months later. The goal was never just visibility; the goal was to get women work, to get them PAID. So we started producing a spreadsheet from the hashtag and offering it free of charge to any hiring professional in the publishing industry.
whenever I see editors asking for people to post their portfolios and hundreds of artists replying it always makes me think of like a 1920s dock worker waiting to get chosen by the foreman lol sigh
I think editors should make an effort to seek out talent through the COPIOUS means we've given them (@COCdatabase? #drawingwhileblack?) and not just lazily rely on desperate and usually new-to-industry artists to constantly be haunting the timeline for opportunities
not all these calls are exploitative in the sense they pay unfairly but that the editor can see who's replying the most, who seems most desperate, and take advantage of that. they can pit you against another artist to see who can do it faster or cheaper, for less rights, etc
I drew a comic abt a traumatic experience in my childhood and being black in America. Not necessarily medical. Still cathartic. Back to standard programming after this. #blm #BlackLivesMatter #comic #graphicmedicine #drawingwhileblack 
Hello #drawingwhileblack Am a Ballpoint pen artist, these are my pen drawings.
Thank you all for appreciating me more than most,the love is everything and more, hope to make it worth your time🙏
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I've seen a lot of discussion around rendering darker skin tones, so I wanted to share some great tutorials and resources from incredible artists who really know their stuff. Here's a great one that highlights just how reflective darker skin can be: muddycolors.com/2016/12/skin-t…
Here's a short part 2 to that one: muddycolors.com/2017/01/portra… It's really important to start with the basics when you're working in color: value, hue, and saturation. learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/eleme… If you're a beginner, it's much easier to tackle those one at a time instead of all at once.
I'd start with value first. Imo, it's the most important element in color: muddycolors.com/2015/08/value-… And on top of that, you can ADD color later to black and white/greyscale images! muddycolors.com/2017/03/applyi… If your values are solid, hue and saturation will easily fall into place.
I think the most telling thing about this drawing is the dude in comments saying it looks like a white woman colored black. No, if you look up photos of her profile, it's pretty recognizable as Serena. You wouldn't confuse that profile for Oprah or Leslie Jones or Simone Biles
Which tells you people are SO USED to seeing racist images instead of black people drawn as they are, that they can't even recognize it when they finally see it. Which is really depressing, and drives home the need for more art of and by black people.
If you're looking, I'd suggest the awesome hashtag #DrawingWhileBlack
