I was just trying to keep my skill up with this one. I drew a man (which I hardly ever draw) and wanted to colour him. I always struggle when deciding what colour to make the skin. I am black but most cartoons are white. It's kind of a perception you get growing up, most human characters tend to be white. Something struck me when I first saw a magazine from Nigeria - All the models where black. Why was this? Why did they not have white models?

I suppose they wanted to appeal to people reading the magazine. That, and it would also be impractical to do all photo shoots internationally or fly in white models or even have enough pretty white models to go around.

So with the colours above I was testing out skin colours as far removed as possible from the real thing (except of course the white and black ones). Why all of this you ask? We'll I didn't want to subject my characters to any of the prejudices associated with skin colours in the real world.

I think I have done quite well here and something more suited to my style. What do you think is the one you like most?