{"id":5501,"date":"2020-06-09T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:29:28","slug":"80-resources-for-black-digital-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/80-resources-for-black-digital-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Resources for Black Digital Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
Header by Prince Mahlangu<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\nBeing based on another current event, this could be considered a follow-up to \u201cArtist Resources: So Your Con Was Cancelled<\/a>.\u201d\n\nI wrote this one without asking or a guarantee of payment, just because I thought it would be the best use of the platform.\u00a0 Although Wacom\u2019s social media team has done an excellent job signal boosting black creators and causes lately, I knew I had to pitch in however I could.\n\nThe journalistic infrastructure that covers black creators focuses on gallery art, especially when it\u2019s political or about identity.\u00a0 It\u2019s concentrated in places like Brooklyn.\u00a0 Most grants are aimed at, and most black arts nonprofits serve, traditional artists.\u00a0 Good for them, but it tends to leave digital artists high and dry.\u00a0 There are entire subcultures of black creatives who are unknown even to woke media: like African animators and the black anime art community, which many other otaku don\u2019t even know exists.\n\n\"\"\n

By Monte Miller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThis list is intended both to help people who\u2019ve gained an interest in black art from the massive wave of exposure we\u2019re enjoying to help find our work, and to let BIPOC creators know there are more resources and ways to promote out there than they ever could\u2019ve thought.\n\nDigital artists live by word of mouth and online sales, so the first step to supporting them is facilitating those.\n

Promotion<\/h1>\n

Websites<\/h2>\nYoung Black Artists<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Covers both traditional and digital.\u00a0 Also has\u00a0an Instagram of the same name<\/a>.\u00a0 If you\u2019re interested in your work being shared with their 114k followers, you can tag it #youngblackartists and, their website promises, they\u2019ll at least take a look at it.\u00a0 Although they get a lot, and quality will determine whether or not they share it.\n\nDope Black Art<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 A network of \u201chundreds of talented artists all over the world\u201d that focuses more on younger artists, and as such, heavily incorporates digital.\u00a0Their Instagram<\/a>\u00a0has 700k followers, and like Young Black Artists, they\u2019ll look at artists who @ them or tag posts with #dopeblackart.\n\nSupport Black Art<\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0Focused on gallery and traditional art, but they also make a lot of space for digital artists, especially ones who make prints.\u00a0 They also have a monthly or annual subscription.\u00a0 Their Insta is\u00a0@supportblackart,<\/a>\u00a0with 205k followers, and two hashtags, #supportblackart (338k) and #supportblackartists (82k).\n\nAfrican Digital Art<\/span><\/a>. One of the most exciting up-and-coming online communities I\u2019ve seen in a while.\u00a0 Provides stunning examples of not just illustration, but film, 3d modeling, and animation, and photomanips, out of Africa.\u00a0 Instagram:\u00a0@africandigitalart<\/a>.\n

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In case you\u2019re wondering the kind of quality we\u2019re dealing with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>By Symone Seven.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n

Miscellaneous<\/h4>\n