How To Design Exceptional Black Male Characters | Part 1

[@kreativeforce532]

What a cool topic. One that is so rarely covered in the art community. It should be the default setting for African artists world-wide. Charity starts at home. No story is better to tell than our own.

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thank you for saying this. This is the compelling force behind my career!

[@lavasharkflowers]

It should not be the default setting for Africans. We should be free to do whatever we want. We are human beings with free choices like people in every other country. This "we must be like this" mentality is what is holding Africans back. Meanwhile westerners as a whole use whatever culture they want to make great stories and we watch and enjoy them. It's not wrong for Africans to make African characters but anybody can make anything. At the end of the day we are humans first before Africans.

[@DavidM.ART3]

Crazy how i was thinking about becoming an animator and then saw this channel 😅. KZbin just knows. Love seeing Africans doing our thing in animation and other art related things. Gives me morale. W video. You might even become my first fav Nigerian/african animator❤🐣

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

@DavidM.ART3 The stars do align in our favor. I'm glad you found this helpful!

[@artbybamm_globals]

Wow.... Amazing. I love your workflow, and I love the middle guy more. His Belle is deeply evil 😅

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Haha, glad you liked it!

[@JimmNeutricity]

This is really cool to me because I’m African American. With my attachment to Africa is lost seeing your video is inspiring 😅

[@abiolaojebola1205]

Popularly demanded ooo😊

[@kungfu-comics]

LOVE IT

[@DejiDigital]

Even as a 3D character artist this stuff is so valuable.

[@hotcoldman77]

The best Nigerian artist imho

[@NafunaTVchannel]

love the style and content! Do more! I do game dev in zimbabwe, maybe room for collabs in future

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thanks. I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@queenblackdiva]

fantastic!!

[@bullivan10]

KZbin finally got me home. Thanks

[@kennethray5710]

Nice layouts of character body type and sizes. I'm interested in more of character design.

[@SHAOL1N_GODL1NG]

I wana see these guys animated. New sub

[@donphildraws1357]

Amazing tutorial, i cant wait for part 2

[@xothermik]

popular demand o!

[@kungfu-comics]

Nice work. I'm an animator and looking to work with other artist.

[@digi2000ify]

Uzo is the Mac!!

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

@@digi2000ify Thanks brother!

[@lusenikallon]

More of this please

[@saliuarts]

Looking forward to more of these. Glad to have been recommended your video

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@Ig2-DonBosco]

make more content on this topic please courage to you, I subscribe🥰

[@will-limbamoleka1139]

Very cool! How do you research the culture/clothing of African Characters? I want to know your process

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

@@will-limbamoleka1139 I find most of my references (including African fashion) on Pinterest. I'll try to do a video about this in the near future.

[@Euphoryaaa]

@@uzomadunkwu1977looking forward to this!

[@AllyssaALewis]

It's great to hear your thought process as you work. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Legend-animation-studio]

Thank you

[@africansuperhero]

Great work, and very nice approach! Hope to be joining you soon!💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥🏆🏆

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Glad you’re digging it! 🏆

[@afromonkstudios]

i love this video and how insightful it is ,how ever it was lowkey boring at some point

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I'm new to KZbin and will work to improve in this area.

[@Lambi.4o]

​@@uzomadunkwu1977 I have a suggestion if you are interested Maybe do a commentary style video where you talk about why you designed these characters the way you did. I'm also Nigerian so I understand why they look like that but others my not, so maybe explain why they wear the wrapa, give insight on some cultures that made you draw them the way they are, something educational so people have information if they want to do something similar, the video title did give a vibe of having educational purposes. That's just my suggestion, but I love your work and how it shows African culture. Great work indeed 👍

[@nanadrawslot]

I’m hooked already. Don’t stop . Keep it coming

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thanks!

[@darnelljohnson5401]

Nice! Great to see the process!

[@davidakinyotun]

Really insightful! Looking forward to the next 👌🏾🔥

[@theworldofblardalough2546]

Subscribed

[@Kumbikouture]

I really like your style. Great video !

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@joshuaadegboye3351]

Beautiful process mahn

[@kingkuku]

Nice this was great

[@emmanuelbondzie3832]

this is so good and insightful

[@marcusmanningtv]

This is inspiring

[@samuel_enyinna]

Thank you for making KZbin videos. I love you ❤️

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

I appreciate the support. Keep your eyes out for more videos!

[@MuzzJoob]

Very nice process ! Love it ❤

[@LaKeiith]

This is awesome, as someone looking to build my own fictional universe,, l love this and l wanna tag along🎉🙏⚡️

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thank you very much. I plan to drop a video about world building some time in the near future.

[@LaKeiith]

@ can’t wait 🙏🏽🔥

[@Kairegi]

This is very helpful

[@artofBrentWilson]

Thank you for sharing your process! Learned a lot! Would love to see more of your thoughts and process on character design in the future!

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

I'm so glad you learned something! Stay tuned for more videos about my creative process.

[@markanula]

This is awesome

[@jakkdlaw]

Just paint them black and give them a big flat nose😂 like mine😂😂

[@Kairegi]

We should do a Colab ❤

[@Markeveli237]

U have my sub sir

[@lavasharkflowers]

Will you do females too?

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Yes, that's up next! It will be shared this Friday.

[@MatheusOliveira-fk6ze]

[@Euphoryaaa]

What a surprise to see you on KZbin. Subscribed fan from Instagram

[@uzomadunkwu1977]

Thank you so much for your unwavering support and following!