The list includes Black human characters, fantasy figures and black-furred cartoon animals. The color observations describe the pictured costumes and designs.
Black Panther
T’Challa is Marvel’s Black Panther, the hero associated with Wakanda. His suit is almost entirely black in the illustration here. Gray highlights trace the mask, claws and armor without changing the dark silhouette. Our Black Panther palette explores a different treatment, pairing near-black with violet shades.
Afro Samurai
The flowing headband and raised sword give Afro Samurai a sharp outline. The story follows his search for revenge after his father is killed. In this monochrome drawing, white cloth and exposed skin separate the black hair from the dark trousers. The headband trails beyond his body, extending the drawing’s outline.
Uncle Ruckus
Uncle Ruckus belongs to The Boondocks, where his racist views are part of the show’s adult satire. The pictured outfit is much quieter than the character: a dusty pink shirt, pale undershirt and muted olive trousers.
Numbuh Five
Abigail “Abby” Lincoln wears a long-brimmed red cap above a blue outfit. Known as Numbuh Five in Codename: Kids Next Door, she is Cree Lincoln’s younger sister. Her oversized white shoes sit below the blue clothes. The cap often shades her eyes.
Carl Carlson
Carl Carlson comes from The Simpsons. He works at Springfield’s nuclear power plant alongside Homer and Lenny. He wears a pale lavender jacket over a bright pink shirt, with olive-green trousers.
Joe Gardner
A black turtleneck, dark trousers and a small brimmed hat suit Joe Gardner’s understated look. Joe is the jazz-loving music teacher at the center of Pixar’s Soul. His narrow glasses sit above the high collar.
Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet
Dr. Sweet is the expedition’s medical officer in Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The khaki shirt, rolled sleeves and brown-gray trousers fit the crew’s practical clothing. Large pockets and a brown belt break up the khaki.
Cyborg (DC Comics)
Victor Stone is Cyborg, the DC hero whose body combines human and mechanical parts. The armor here has pale metallic surfaces, dark joints and blue-green shading. Color follows the separate plates and openings rather than covering him like ordinary fabric.
For a line-art version of the character, see our Cyborg coloring pages.
Dr. Hibbert
A white coat covers most of Dr. Julius Hibbert’s outfit. He is the Springfield doctor from The Simpsons. Blue trousers, a green tie and the red object in his hand supply separate patches of color.
Sticky Webb (The Proud Family)
Sticky Webb is one of Penny’s friends in The Proud Family. His blue jacket, lighter shirt and dark hat make a compact cool-colored outfit. A purple background surrounds the portrait.
Mace Windu
Mace Windu is a Jedi Master who appears in both live-action Star Wars and animated Clone Wars stories. The live-action portrait shows his cream tunic and brown outer robe. His purple lightsaber supplies a brighter color in other depictions.
Suga Mama
Suga Mama is Oscar’s mother and Penny’s grandmother in The Proud Family. White hair, a pink dress and a walking cane shape the version shown here. A pink headband repeats the dress color above her glasses. She rarely needs a large entrance to take over a scene.
Huey Freeman
Huey Freeman and his younger brother Riley live with their grandfather in The Boondocks. Huey’s large rounded hair contrasts with his narrow, dark outfit in this illustration. His serious expression leaves very little doubt about his mood.
Miles Morales
Miles Morales is a Spider-Man from Marvel Comics, seen in animation in the Spider-Verse films. In the black suit shown here, red webbing and the red chest emblem follow the body rather than forming separate clothing panels.
- Black: most of the suit.
- Red: web lines, fingertips and the spider emblem.
- White: the eyes in the mask.
Ororo Munroe (Storm)
Ororo Munroe is Storm of the X-Men, whose powers involve the weather. Long white hair sweeps above a black costume in this image. Small red markings interrupt the dark suit, but the hair is the brightest feature. Storm’s white and silver costumes make a different balance; this illustration shows her in black.
Libby Folfax
Libby Folfax is Cindy’s friend in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. The pictured design uses a pink top and jacket with dark blue trousers. Her black bob curls outward at the ends. The large shoes repeat the outfit’s dark blue near the ground.
Garnet (Steven Universe)
Garnet is a Crystal Gem in Steven Universe, formed by Ruby and Sapphire. Her squared-off hair and large gauntlets give the design broad, angular shapes. The design here combines deep blue-violet legs with pink-red upper sections and a pale star on the chest.
Her gauntlets are her signature weapons. The small pale star stays visible between the larger colored sections.
Valerie Gray
Valerie Gray is the teenage ghost hunter from Danny Phantom. Her everyday outfit pictured here uses a pale yellow top and orange skirt. Her ghost-hunting equipment is a separate costume, with a very different red-and-black palette.
Donna Tubbs
Donna Tubbs is Cleveland’s wife in The Cleveland Show and the mother of Roberta and Rallo. Her everyday design pairs a blue top and jeans with red shoes.
Jodie Landon
Jodie Landon is a student in Daria. Her green top and pale skirt are visible in the illustration here, with dark hair framing her face. The darker vest and lighter skirt divide the outfit at the waist.
Spyke
Spyke belongs to X-Men: Evolution. His ability to produce bony spikes gives the character an unusually jagged outline. The spikes extend beyond the edge of his clothes.
Elisa Maza
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Elisa Maza is the human detective who befriends the clan in Gargoyles. A red jacket, black shirt and blue jeans make up her familiar outfit. The jacket surrounds a narrow dark center, while her long black hair runs down over the shoulders.
Bumblebee (DC Comics)
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Karen Beecher-Duncan is DC’s Bumblebee. Yellow and black follow the insect theme, with translucent wings extending beyond the suit. In the illustration, black bands break up the bright yellow instead of simply outlining it.
Oscar Proud
Oscar Proud is Penny, BeBe and CeCe’s father, Trudy’s husband and Suga Mama’s son. His white shirt and blue trousers make him easy to pick out among the more colorful Proud family outfits. In this image, the narrow tie carries the warm accent down the middle.
Trixie Carter
Trixie Carter is Jake’s friend in Disney’s American Dragon: Jake Long. This outfit mixes a purple-blue top, green trousers and a darker outer layer. Her hair rises into two large puffs.
Trudy Proud
Trudy Proud is a veterinarian and Oscar’s wife in The Proud Family. She wears pale green beneath her dark brown bob. White details sit near the neckline and waist in the design shown here.
Max Goof
Max is Goofy’s son, appearing in Goof Troop and A Goofy Movie. His long black ears, dark hair and pale muzzle carry a family resemblance. The clothes change between appearances, so his red-shirted teenage look and younger outfits shouldn’t be treated as one fixed costume.
Bishop (Marvel Comics)
Lucas Bishop is an X-Men character associated with stories about the future. The pictured uniform combines dark blue, red trim and yellow straps. Yellow straps cross the blue torso.
Felix the Cat
Felix is a black-furred cartoon cat with a white face. The white eye area and grin leave a few clear openings inside an otherwise dark silhouette. No elaborate costume required.
Riley Freeman
The cornrows help distinguish Riley Freeman from Huey at a glance. His outfit here uses a pale shirt, loose dark trousers and white shoes.
Rallo Tubbs
Rallo is Donna’s young son in The Cleveland Show, making Cleveland his stepfather. A large rounded hairstyle sits above his small body. The light-blue top and orange shorts leave a narrow warm band below the cool shirt.
Robert Jebediah Freeman
Robert “Granddad” Freeman is Huey and Riley’s grandfather in The Boondocks. Gray hair, glasses and a muted green cardigan identify the older member of the household. His dark trousers are close to black, giving the pale shirt and gray hair room to stand out.
Tiana (The Princess and the Frog)
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Tiana dreams of opening her own restaurant in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. Her green ball gown uses layered, petal-like shapes. Yellow-green fabric near the bodice meets paler green layers across the skirt, with matching gloves and a small tiara above.
Lucius Best (Frozone)
Lucius Best is Frozone from Pixar’s The Incredibles. His ice powers suit the cool blue-and-white costume. White runs across the shoulders and gloves, while pale blue covers much of the body.
For a drawing’s light-blue areas, the Ice Blue swatch is a pale comparison. It is not an official Frozone color specification.
Penny Proud
Penny is the central teenager in The Proud Family. Her parents are Oscar and Trudy, and BeBe and CeCe are her younger twin siblings. The burgundy skirt and cardigan repeat one color above and below her white blouse. Black hair, white socks and dark shoes finish the school-day look.
Vince LaSalle
Vince LaSalle is the sports-loving member of the playground group in Disney’s Recess. His green jersey has a small white number on the front. Gray shorts, white socks and dark shoes keep the rest of the outfit simple.
Related: Green Cartoon Characters, Purple Cartoon Characters, Black Pokemon.