biscuit

I mainly have this greviance with the Hermitcraft fandom and how many fanartists depict Scar, a guy who in real life is disabled and in a wheelchair. lots of fanart depict him with no disability aids at all, which to be fair the man himself has said he doesn't really mind or care about that, plus you at least have the excuse that in the game of Minecraft wheelchairs dont exist, everyone is capable of the exact same movements of walking, sprinting, jumping, etc.

but then theres lots of fanartists who draw him either with a cane or arm crutches. and it just pisses me off a bit. a lot, actually. why are we taking a disabled man and giving him what is, in my opinion as a disabled person, a less complicated, more aesthetically pleasing, and overall a considered more "normal" disability aid? why can you not take the take to draw a wheelchair? it feels like they're going "I recognise this is a disabled person! Im not one of those artists that erase his disability, see, I'm drawing him disabled! but wheelchairs are just sooooo hard, so I'm just gonna give him a cane cause its easier! but hes still disabled, see, Im sooooo much better than all those other artists".

it makes sense if theyre drawing one of his specific characters that does in fact use a cane in-lore, like one of his current charcters, but people just draw any and every version of him with a cane or arm crutches.

I also absolutely never see fanart that gives him his oxygen tubes either, unless its specifically fanart of the Actual Real Life Guy.

it just feels like such blatant disability erasure and yet no one else seems to agree with me on this...

oh dudeee i so get it I was in a fandom for a short while where one of the protagonists was a wheelchair user and so many people would just draw him standing anyway (or even worse just sitting on the floor)

here is a dumb jank tutorial for anyone who is scared to draw a wheelchair user bc they cant draw wheelchairs. theyre not as hard as they look

I made an attempt

I tried to sort of base it on my wheelchair but I'm not in mine rn (sitting on the sofa) so I don't have it as a reference

I put the footplates as seperate since mine has them seperate

Mines not an active chair so its different it has the handles at the back so I can be lazy get help pushing it*

Drawing is way too low to the ground and what are those wheels but it was my first attempt so its not gonna be great

I forgot the front wheels oops 🤦‍♂

Now how do i draw myself / a character in it

featuring tyler (he/bean, little) and bee (he/they/fae/pup/calm, settler/caretaker)

disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I'm just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.