#face equality week

[Image descriptions: Three digital art pieces of Daphne, a young white woman with long wavy brown hair, a large scar on the right side of her face, and brown eyes with the right eye pointing down and outwards and having a droopy lid. She is smiling in all three pictures.

Image 1: A bust of Daphne looking at the viewer, facing right in 3/4 view and wearing a black shirt.

Image 2: Daphne standing with a lime-green glow stick, right hand on her chest and left eye looking up as she reminisces. "They were one of my favourites when I was in high school," she says, "so I'm really excited for this concert!" She is wearing a dark purple shirt with the words "The Wailing Nightjars" written in pink (mostly hidden by her right hand which is on her chest), faded jeans, a magenta glow necklace, and an orange glow bracelet.

Image 3: An art piece made to resemble a photo printed on glossy paper. In the photo, Daphne is doing a peace sign in front of the Niagara Falls. Foaming blue water crashes down past the railing. Standing next to her is her friend Ash, another young white woman who is also smiling. She is taller than Daphne, with pale skin, black-streaked silver hair in a messy bob, several piercings, and amber eyes.

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I found out Face Equality Week is a) currently ongoing (though near its end) b) has art as its theme this year and c) invites everyone to join, so I decided to draw some new Daphnes and repost an older one. I have a couple of other characters with facial differences, namely a guy who has vEDS with the associated facial features (this counts, right?) and Florence's father from the Verdantland Trilogy who also has a notable facial scar, but neither are well-developed characters yet so this post is just Daphne.

Daphne is a major character in my dark urban fantasy WIP The Claws of the Ounce, the second draft of which I finished on Friday. She has a facial scar and oculomotor nerve palsy as the result of an early childhood injury (oculomotor stuff came from the post-trauma hematoma - also damage to the zygomatic nerve, but it almost completely healed and so isn't visible). Though I somewhat explained it here, this information is not in the story itself, as Ash (the MC) has the sense not to ask invasive questions.

She’s a big music fan, former goth / emo who still wears black most of the time, and Ash’s roommate and only friend for a good chunk of the story.

using face equality week as my push to finally make the sprites ive been wanting to... (design by saszor)

[ID: A bust illustration of a dark skin Black woman with coily/kinky pulled up black hair and cystic hygroma at the right side of her face. She is pursing her lips and doing a peace sign at her eye. She is wearing pink/purple makeup and a pink top. The background is desaturated teal yellow bokeh and swirl patterned overlays. In the bottom corner is my signature and the date 5/16/2025. (End ID).]

This week's Sketch Saturday is following the theme - a compliation of things I've (mostly) already posted. Pictures of Nadia, my main character with facial disfigurement - and a traumatic brain injury.

used a wheel generator we made to pick out the certain parts [ hence the writing in the corner which says: gyaru, dark skin, soft body type, intersex, missing limb(s) ]

We did alot of research for them and might end up making them an oc-

They have a upper lip cleft on both sides, and Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (which includes wine stain marks), they are also intersex ( specifically Klinefelter Syndrome)

Thank you @cripplecharacters for the facial difference list you made, that's how we got the cleft idea from, and how we found out face equality week is a thing!!!!!