[dropcap]It[/dropcap] Black Twitter is the unspoken champion of social media. We can almost always count on the virtual community to produce movements, threads and hashtags that keep us scrolling down our Twitter feeds for hours, often times in laughter and awe. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
This weekend, that hashtag was #DrawingWhileBlack, which saw gifted black artists from various backgrounds getting their names out there and blessing our feeds with incredible paintings, drawings and other forms of visual art for the free—what more could we really ask for from social media?
Starting a hashtag event to celebrate and appreciate black artists this weekend !??✊???? RTs are greatly appreciated! #drawingwhileblack pic.twitter.com/SFptXsuuMk
— Abelle✨?@ AnimeNYC (@sparklyfawn) September 13, 2017
I'm EZI from Uganda ?? , a vector artist and I'm loving it ?#drawingwhileblack pic.twitter.com/n2Uh60b2OX
— eziwear (@eziwear) September 18, 2017
Ight Boom. I'm James/Elom, Digital artist from Ghana. I can draw eyes uno, but I think they're cooler without em ? #DrawingWhileBlack pic.twitter.com/Wqd3ZHxqiM
— jay macauley (@JicAuley) September 17, 2017
I'm Xane Asiamah, illustrator and charcoal artist from Ghana?? . Thought I'd just drop these??⚡️ #drawingwhileblack pic.twitter.com/0ukMfL47L0
— • DIMIOURGUS • (@xaneasiamah) September 17, 2017
#drawingwhileblack take a shot every time someone mistakes me for an art major pic.twitter.com/ENxK9lFx7e
— ary / DEFEND DACA (@rosesaagar) September 15, 2017
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