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Some attacks I've done so far; for ~Toya, ~Gomji, ~idylls, and @bluericeidk / ~BlueRice
ID: digital art of a long green and white creature with big ears, antenna, a pouch, and a tail that splits in two. they are rolling on the floor with their eyes squinted shut and their snake-like tongue sticking out. end ID
attack of bug for SerpentineShine
thanks again for your help! yes, i would appreciate if you deleted it after reading, thanks for asking
You're welcome :-)
Hello! Happy Disability Pride Month :D [happy face]
I wanted to know if you're ever gonna post stuff about your ocs here or any social other than artfight
Happy Disability Pride Month to you too!
Tbh probably not, at this point I prefer to separate my personal writing on artfight/toyhouse and post other art here. I've posted enough oc content on here to know that a lot of the reactions/tags people leave make me uncomfortable lmao. I also noticed both from myself but mostly from some of my mutuals who post disabled/otherwise marginalized characters that there's way too many people who feel entitled to tell you what kind of character you should make or what you should do with them so that they can relate to them. I prefer to not have to deal with that.
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More attacks. Having a lot of fun experimenting.
1. @mothwithpronouns 2. @vampirismandart 3. @themoonstitcher 4. @/Awesome_possumz_artz (insta) and @clerksdagger :)
just wanted to tell you that I love your blog a lit and that I wish you a pleasant day.
Do you have any recommendations for other people (on any platform) who also have tutorials on how to draw visibility disabled people? You are genuinely awesome
Hello! Thank you and I hope you have a nice day too
I know that @cy-cyborg has done some before, like this one on stump/residual limb scarring. I've also seen this one on port wine stains.
There are a lot of mobility aid and whatnot tutorials, but very few of people who look visibly disabled outside using those aids. Which is sad because a lot of e.g. fulltime wheelchair users have physical differences rather than being 'an average-bodied person sitting down'. But what can you do...
This 'list' looks incredibly dire I'm realizing so if anyone has any recommendations please lmk
Hi! I’m working on an original character project that I want to include a lot of casual representation in (“casual” meaning that the characters don’t need a justification for being disabled/fat/POC/etc, they just are because people can and do exist that way in reality!)
I was wondering if you had any suggestions for finding resources for drawing facial differences(and maybe other visible disabilities), especially in a cartoony style. I’ve looked through the Facial Equality Week tag but would like to see more examples, and since my art is so… goofy, for lack of a better word, I would love any help I can get in integrating differences without being offensive or upsetting.
Sorry if this is a bother, and thank you for all that you do!
Hey!
I'm not aware of any guides for drawing facial differences specifically (or at least, good ones. There's 1 billion tutorials telling you that scars are just a Singular Line, always, but that's not... correct), but perhaps someone in the notes could help out?
For my own advice, you could check out this old post I made. Because you mentioned your art being cartoony, I would specifically urge you to not overexaggerate facial differences the way they often are. A prime example would be how a lot of cartoons portray strabismus;
It's just a funny gag to them rather than, IDK, how some of us look like. Not to mention that one of these is also a mockery of intellectually/developmentally disabled people with "Derp" in the name, but that's beside the point here.
It's the whole "the character is crazy/stupid/wild/whatever and that's why they have it" that's the problem with how it's often shown. You can also see it in how characters who don't even normally have it will be shown with it for a scene where they're saying something nonsensical, etc.
Another example that's nowhere near as rampant is the split-face thing with various facial differences being used. Mostly vitiligo but sometimes also facial palsy. I'm talking about this weirdly perfectly halved face that looks extremely different on each side, often used to imply that a character is two-faced but mostly just signals that the author doesn't know how vitiligo looks like.
[note: vitiligo also shows up on lighter skin. I wanted to make sure it's visible here for tutorial clarity purposes.]
This one is just weird because it straight up doesn't look like that. I have no idea where it came from, but it should go back there. Facial palsy doesn't make someone look like the antique comedy/tragedy theater mask.
Unless I'm forgetting some other annoying cartoon trope, these would be the big ones that you should stay away from.
Outside of that, it's really on a case by case basis on how a specific FD should be drawn because they're so different. A birthmark can just be a differently colored patch of skin, but a craniofacial difference would require some more changes to be included. Alopecia is well, lack of hair, and can be done very easily but ectrodactyly can be more complicated to show properly because of the limitations of a cartoony artstyle when it comes to hands. And while I do think it would be great to see more of those facial differences that tend to not be included in art at all, there's nothing wrong with deciding to go for the things you can represent more faithfully, especially if you're just starting.
I will say that if you're making an honest attempt at being respectful and trying to get it right, most of us will still be excited to see your work. Even if it's not perfect or has some inaccuracies. I will take a "'yeah more or less' correct with a happy, human character" over a "Very Technically correct but tagged as #tw burns and with blood splattered on them" any day.
Lastly, I wanted to share some art featuring characters with facial differences (and other visible disabilities) that are done in a cartoony, or at least somewhat simplistic artstyles (I'm using both terms very widely here) - maybe it will give you some ideas.
Man with Treacher Collins syndrome (also one of the first pieces online where I saw a character with an FD portrayed in such a lovely way. A fav of mine.) Girl with Pfeiffer syndrome Too many characters to count Woman with burns Woman with a limb difference Multiple characters again Animation featuring people with Down syndrome [youtube] Multiple characters, including a girl with neurofibromatosis, a burn survivor, a girl with a cleft lip and another with TCS [twitter]
If you have a more specific art question ("how do I draw a person with XYZ facial difference?") you can send me an ask on @saszor. I prefer to stick to the writing theme on this blog but would still like to help if you need it.
Hope this helps,
mod Sasza
Edit: apologies for the lack of alt text on one of the images, it has been fixed.
My disability doesn’t need to be hidden
Two weeks ago, I made a batch of videos for Tik Tok that were supposed to be going up over the next month or so. However, out of the 5 uploaded and queued, 3 were flagged as needing manual review for potentially breaking community guidelines. The only thing about these videos that was any different from the other content I’d made in the past, or the two new videos that didn’t get flagged, was that they featured either images of myself where my legs and wheelchair were visible, or images of my fursona Nix (who has the same disability) where their legs and wheelchair were visible. I took all the videos down, since the later ones wouldn’t have made much sense in isolation and made a quick crop to the earlier ones so my/Nix’s legs were out-of-frame and low-and-behold, they didn’t get flagged. This isn’t new. In the past, Tik Tok has removed or hidden my videos (meaning they were stuck on 0 views and people visiting my page couldn’t see them) when my legs and scars weren’t entirely covered. I kind of expected it to happen to the video that used IRL footage of me and I had a backup plan, but censoring Nix in particular just felt… petty and uncalled for. It’s bad enough to do this to real disabled people’s bodies and that I even had to have a backup plan for it at all, but the other videos? They were stylised drawings of a purple dragon with simplified scars. A drawing I’ve used on other platforms with no issue by the way; I’ve uploaded videos with those same images to both Youtube (shorts and youtube proper) and Red Note. It’s only Tik Tok that has an issue with it consistently. Despite the vent I had about it all on Tumblr when it first happened, I will eventually re-upload the videos, as well as upload them to other platforms, but I have to figure out how to get around whatever is flagging them first. I won’t be hiding or censoring my/nix’s stumps or scars if I can avoid it. I know it seems petty and it’s going to make things harder in the long run, but I started my tik tok account to share my art, the vast majority of which has disability as a central theme in some way, shape or form, and to educate about disability, and I can’t do that If I have to hide mine. My body and my disability (whether depicted on me or on my characters) isn’t gore and it doesn’t need to be censored. [ID: An image of a purple dragon with yellow wings and a yellow underbelly, flying in front of the 2021 disability pride flag. The dragon is missing most of it’s tail and it’s hind legs, with the right leg gone from above the knee, the left from just below it. Both the tail and legs are covered in very visible scarring, and there are a few smaller scars on the arms. There is white text with a black outline on the image which reads “Disability just being visible isn’t "Graphic and Disturbing Imagery”“. /End ID]
hello! i know this isn't related to face-related disabilities, but may i suggest your next tutorial be on drawing people with limb differences? As someone who draws a character's residual limb often, i also notice that a lot of people genuinely do not know how to draw limb differences and it feels like every other day i see characters sleeping with prosthetics on or their residual limb is covered in bandages (when healed)....... genuinely people do not know how to draw limb differences and it gets under my skin so bad lol . It'd help me a lot too. Thank you so much!!
Hello! I have done like one in the past. I definitely agree that people don't know how to draw limb differences but I think it's more a question of being uncurious than actually not knowing how to. The bandage and prosthetic thing is one of those things that could get resolved by literally just perceiving arm amputees, and if we aren't there yet then I don't think I can do anything more lmao
I also know that the tumblr userbase is very attached to their never-removing-prosthetics through-the-shoulder amputee OCs and I'm not sure I have the mental strength to encounter that group lol
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(Sorry for posting asks twice in a row, I found your dwarfism tutorial which I didn’t know about :P)
Could you do a tutorial on active wheelchairs and/or ambulatory users? Thank you for doing these tutorials btw they explain stuff really well!!
Hello! I won't be doing tutorials on wheelchairs since 1) I'm not a wheelchair user 2) I really can't draw them that well to be honest.
My biggest advice is to research what type of wheelchair would make sense for a) their disability, 2) their financial situation, 3) their time period. And then reference a real wheelchair. Just this alone will help you avoid the top 10 biggest lowkey obvious mistakes of drawing a wheelchair (the one I see the most is not drawing the caster wheels on manual wheelchairs, or drawing an EXTREMELY oversized wheelchair that would be impossible to self-propel in).
first artfight attack for ~photolysis !!
i wanted to start off easy but. horse.
dividers made by @ eimogji !
two more refs for artfight down! it took a lot of editing but i think im finally happy with the layout :)
two identical twins who always seem to be getting in situations with the paranormal,,
dividers made by @ eimogji !
first artfight attack for ~photolysis !!
i wanted to start off easy but. horse.
dividers made by @ eimogji !
my artfight card!
find my bugs here!
dividers made by @ eimogji !
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kandi artfight attack for @saszor !! lmk if you want this and i can ship it to you!
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Ọbà , Ọya & Ọ̀ṣun
Oba is the Orisha of marriage, domestic life, loyalty, and sacrifice.
Oya is the Orisha of Winds, storms, transformation, death/rebirth.
Oshun is the Orisha of Love, Beauty, Prosperity, and Fresh Waters
The heads in Yoruba art are often disproportionately large. This intentional distortion is a fundamental characteristic of the artwork and is based on philosophical and spiritual beliefs. The Yoruba believe that the head, or orĂ, is the most vital part of a person, containing their inner essence, destiny, and life force. So i thought it might be fun to make the heads of my silly designs larger to reflect this!
