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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.
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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