im bringing this thread back and also adding onto it that drawing black ppl with a grey skin tone is NOT where its at. ill link under this thread a superb tutorial made by a black person about how to draw black ppl bc as much as im loving all this mary art, please look at a ref https://twitter.com/liilshotgun/status/1290327223224934400

and if youre thinking “but ive always drawn mary one way i cant change the way i draw her now!” yes you can! i literally experimented with SO MANY skin tones when drawing her at first until i found one that felt right! its okay and actually so good to change and experiment!

literally it costs no money to go look at pictures of black ppl and just practice coloring dark skin and its sad and exhausting to see less effort put into drawing shotgun mary than there is for any of the lighter skinned characters of the show

anyways heres the tutorial its so wonderfully done and i hope yall take it into consideration when drawing shotgun mary because she deserves all the love in the world and to be drawn right. also! go give the artist some kofis she deserves it! https://twitter.com/greyolle_/status/1311126389387653120