Artist Puppsicle shares a color palette for multicultural skin tones, making it easier for others to create diverse characters and artwork.

One artist has created a color palette of multicultural skin tones that other creators can use in their own work.

Going viral on Twitter is a post from illustrator Puppsicle (@puppsicle) that features a wide variety of skin tones that can be used while crafting artwork, as well as a demonstration of the diverse set of characters that can be created while using the palette. The artist began their tweet with comments they have heard before for why others do not incorporate BIPOC characters into their work, such as "It's so hard to draw POC" and "I can't make black people look nice in my art." Puppsicle responded to these statements saying, "Wow! That's crazy! Anyways here's my diverse skin palette! I did all the work FOR YOU! FOR FREE!!!!"

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Detailed in the documentary Marvel's Behind the Mask on Disney+, way before the comic book landscape and other forms of artwork extended into the digital sphere, creating BIPOC characters proved challenging for publishers. Back when Marvel Comics was getting underway in the 1960s, the ink combination to accurately represent BIPOC pigments wasn't worked out yet, causing the appearance of characters like T'Challa aka the Black Panther to look stone gray as opposed to a natural skin tone. Now that a good deal of art is done digitally though, each pigment set on the multicultural palette can be sampled into digital platforms, or even printed out for reference when crafting physical artwork.

"Obviously this reference sheet doesn't cover every single undertone to ever exist and is quite saturated, but you're welcome to edit the tones," Puppsicle wrote in a follow-up tweet. "Just be mindful of how it looks, y know? I made it saturated on purpose to avoid ashy skin tones."

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The artist responded to some Twitter users, stressing that this palette is intended for creators who can illustrate BIPOC characters, but come up with justifications for why they don't. "This isn't aimed at amateurs this is aimed at people who are perfectly capable but make excuses because they're A. racist or B. stubborn." Puppsicle also tweeted that they were muting reactions to their palette, saying that they "do not wish to see people be like 'ugh just let people draw whatever they want,'" and clarifying that they are not forcing anyone to use the palette, but excuses shouldn't be made for not creating BIPOC artwork "when there's plenty of free resources out there" to do so, such as Puppsicle's own.

One of Puppsicle's tweets aimed at up-and-coming creators reads, "[If] youre an amateur artist and feel bad for not being able to draw dark skin, LEARN! The references are out there! There is no excuse for being able to draw a white person but not a black one, especially in the digital age where you can colorpick [references] like this!"

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