That Melanin Life

Freelance artist Creating black illustrations and animations. Contact me via my website ✌🏾

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I've been practicing #aftereffects #animation #motionsecrets #characteranimation

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😡 They messed with the wrong one #animation #blackcartoon #cartoon #blackanimation #blackanimator #blackgirlwhoanimates #arteveryday #createarteveryday #illustration #characterdesign #blackcharacters #angryblackwoman

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Working on something fun 👩🏾‍🎨 #wip #animation #blackcartoon #blackcartoons

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Character 2 #wip #cartoon #animation #blackcartoon

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WoooHooo! It feels like spring 😎

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Created this animation inspired by a @VashtiHarrison illustration

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The DoomScroll #animation #blackart #blackanimator #blackgirlwhoanimates #blackartist #blackcartoons

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A big storm is coming!
#animation #freelanceanimation #blackart #blackanimator #aftereffects @motiondesignschool #blackgirlwhoanimates

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Finally have some free time 🙂
#Blackanimation #blackgirlanimator #dopeblackart #animation #blackcartoon #blackart #blackgirlanimates @motiondesignschool @slimjimstudios @motionmarkus

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Animation is a PROCESS... 🤓 #blackart #blackgirlanimators #blackgirlanimates #blackgirlart #blackartist #blackcartoon https://t.co/qshuxpwy0F

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I'm here fighting for nothing less. I'm traumatized but just like you, I'm trying to find ways to push through. I love us and created this brand for us. This world needs black voices and our creativity.#keepinit2virgils #blacklivesmatter #blackart #blackartist #melanin

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She's going places #characterdesign #blackcartoon #blackart #arteveryday #animation #thatmelaninlife

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🤔 First, working on posing. #oneposeaday #characterdesign #illustration #blackart #blackgirlwhoanimates

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Character 1, Step 1 #blackanimation #blackgirlwhoanimates #dopeblackart #animation #blackcartoons #blackart #animation #cartoon #thatmelaninlife #melanin #naturalhair

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Team full beard

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Matthew Henson was a key member of the first successful expedition to the North Pole and made seven separate voyages to the Arctic. On April 9, 1909, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary arrived at the true North Pole.

#bhm #blackhistory #blackcartoon #imakemyowngifs #blackart

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Day 5 - George Washington Carver was able to derive nearly 300 products from the peanut. That's a lot of peanuts! Among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics.

#bhm #blackhistory #illustration #blackfacts

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In 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.

#bhm #blackhistory #blackart #blackcartoon #blackfacts #aftereffects #animation #blackexcellence #imakemyowngifs

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Day 3 - Bessie Coleman was an American aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license in 1922. In order to attend aviation school, she had to teach herself French and move to France because the US schools would not let her attend.

#bhm #blackart #blackexcellence

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Day 2 -The Pan African flag was created in 1920 by members of UNIA

This flag later became a symbol for WORLDWIDE liberation of black people.

#blackgirlwhoanimates #blackhistorymonth #bhm #history #historyfacts #blackart #aftereffects #animation #blackexcellence #blackpower