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Hey, y'all!
I had a lot of reasons to want to do this page. Throughout this challenge, I've been casting a really wide net for search results so I could get as many options as possible. For day 2 where I drew men, I literally just popped into Google images and typed "man" and saw what came back. And what came back was white. Whtie men, white kids, white everything! Except mugshots, so I purposely only drew white people for that day.
And I wasn't surprised, exactly, but it was depressing just how overwhelmingly white our media is. And being white, myself, I am definitely guilty of imagining a white person by default when I'm imagining a person at all. And that's not cool! It's also not at all demographically accurate, if you think about the earth, as a whole. I definitely need to color shift my own internal perspective in a more diverse direction. So even though I have tried to add as many people of color as I can for each of the themes so far, I wanted to do just a whole-ass day with exactly zero white people. It's something I want to continue doing!
So here they are! I tried to be pretty specific with my selections, so I'm also including a guide for where each person pictured is from. I'm sorry I couldn't be more specific with a couple of my African source images--the sites I pulled them from were unspecific, themselves and Google just wasn't any further help. I tried to hit every continent and there were so many more I wanted to draw, but had to limit myself to ten. It'll be a good thing to keep in mind next time I want to draw something but am at a loss for a subject!
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Guide (in order of how I drew them)
I've also been feeling more emotional while I draw these and I'm not exactly sure why? The San man (#5) was just so beautiful I kept getting kind of choked up and I'm glad that I decided to draw the Aboriginal woman right after because I just fell in love with her smile and kept smiling, myself, while I was drawing her. I feel like I'd been pretty dispassionate this whole time, but I definitely think I'm connecting more to these drawings than I had at the beginning.
I had a lot of reasons to want to do this page. Throughout this challenge, I've been casting a really wide net for search results so I could get as many options as possible. For day 2 where I drew men, I literally just popped into Google images and typed "man" and saw what came back. And what came back was white. Whtie men, white kids, white everything! Except mugshots, so I purposely only drew white people for that day.
And I wasn't surprised, exactly, but it was depressing just how overwhelmingly white our media is. And being white, myself, I am definitely guilty of imagining a white person by default when I'm imagining a person at all. And that's not cool! It's also not at all demographically accurate, if you think about the earth, as a whole. I definitely need to color shift my own internal perspective in a more diverse direction. So even though I have tried to add as many people of color as I can for each of the themes so far, I wanted to do just a whole-ass day with exactly zero white people. It's something I want to continue doing!
So here they are! I tried to be pretty specific with my selections, so I'm also including a guide for where each person pictured is from. I'm sorry I couldn't be more specific with a couple of my African source images--the sites I pulled them from were unspecific, themselves and Google just wasn't any further help. I tried to hit every continent and there were so many more I wanted to draw, but had to limit myself to ten. It'll be a good thing to keep in mind next time I want to draw something but am at a loss for a subject!
Click to enlarge:
Guide (in order of how I drew them)
I've also been feeling more emotional while I draw these and I'm not exactly sure why? The San man (#5) was just so beautiful I kept getting kind of choked up and I'm glad that I decided to draw the Aboriginal woman right after because I just fell in love with her smile and kept smiling, myself, while I was drawing her. I feel like I'd been pretty dispassionate this whole time, but I definitely think I'm connecting more to these drawings than I had at the beginning.
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Date: 2019-01-31 11:04 am (UTC)From:1) i very much appreciate the amount of thought that you put into selecting your references. i know i've said it before, but it bears repeating.
2) i am already seeing a marked improvement in quality. the challenge is really working for you, in more ways than one.
idk if you put any more time into this page than you did the first two, but this page is just. better.
your facial anatomy is better, your lines are more confident, your individual faces skew less (which means your eye is improving) and you're even making more use of the shade range available to you.
a+ for improvement!
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Date: 2019-01-31 06:05 pm (UTC)From:If I CAN overthink something, I definitely WILL. Sometimes, in the case of being very thoughtful about reference images, that works in my favor. Other times, it ends up with some major executive dysfunction!
And thank-you for the note about improvement! I've definitely noticed improvement, myself! I've spent about the same amount of time on each page (roughly three to four hours) but the last couple have just been an absolute joy to do!
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Date: 2019-01-31 06:42 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-01-31 10:35 pm (UTC)From:<3 <3 <3
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Date: 2019-01-31 12:58 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-01-31 06:09 pm (UTC)From:Drawing that lady was really just such a delight, though. Look at her beautiful smile! <3