Number 37 of 150

February 4, 2023February 2, 2023Leave a comment

He looks very 1990’s, doesn’t he?

Middle Eastern boy stands with a finger to his cheek in a thinking pose. He's wearing jeans, a heathered gray t-shirt, a black and gray checkered overshirt, and converse-style hi-tops. His hair is dark brown and cut in a bowl cut.

Number 34 of 150

January 28, 2023December 30, 2022Leave a comment

I don’t really have much to say about this one. Just a boy in jeans and a hoodie.

Middle Eastern boy, aged 7-9, standing with one hand raised in a wave. He's got medium-dark brown hair, an orange hoodie, jeans, and sneakers.

Number 32 of 150

January 24, 2023December 30, 2022Leave a comment

This little guy is happy, isn’t he?

A Middle Eastern boy, aged 4-6, stands with a big smile on his face and his arms up and open wide. He's wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt, plaid shorts, and sneakers. He also has glasses. His hair is black.

Number 25 of 150

January 10, 2023December 30, 2022Leave a comment

Glasses and a checker-printed shirt. I think I tried to give him a Hawaiian shirt, but the client didn’t want to overdo those in this batch.

A boy, aged 10-12, stands with one hand up as if gesturing as he speaks. He has a larger body type. He's Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. He's wearing a white t-shirt, blue checkered short-sleeved overshirt, loose jean shorts, and slide on sneakers. He's also wearing glasses.

Number 22 of 150

January 4, 2023December 24, 2022Leave a comment

Here’s our first one with glasses in this batch. And, I think, the first one wearing a cammo print in the project.

A boy, age 7-9, stands with legs wide and one hand up, waving. He's smiling and wearing glasses. He's Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. He's wearing a heathered grey t-shirt, denim overshirt with the arms rolled up, camouflage print shorts, and black sneakers.

Number 19 of 150

December 29, 2022December 24, 2022Leave a comment

A fun tie-dye shirt over sweatpants.

A boy, aged 7-9, stands with one hand held up in a gesturing position. He is wearing a black and blue tie die t-shirt, blue sweatpants, and black sneakers.

Number 17 of 150

December 25, 2022December 25, 2022Leave a comment

One subtle change that the client made in this batch was to have me give many of the dark-eyed characters colored irises. It’s slightly faster just to color the irises and pupils both black, and honestly it isn’t that noticeable. (When you’re doing 150 characters on a tight schedule, even little time-savers add up.) But the client did notice about halfway through this batch and asked me to change it going forward. Since they didn’t have me go back and change the previous batch, in order to preserve consistency, I colored the irises of some of the dark-eyed characters brown, and some black. Later images with black characters (there are more coming up) will have brown irises, just to balance out all the black irises I used before.

But, back to today’s post. This guy’s waving, or maybe raising his hand to answer a question? I gave him a dinosaur t-shirt as an interesting detail. Not really Christmassy, I’ll admit, but that’s the one that fell on today.

A boy, aged 4-6 stands with his arm raised. He might be waving or raising his hand to answer a question. He's Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. He's wearing a shirt with a dinosaur printed on it, striped shorts, and flip-flop sandals.

Number 10 of 150

December 11, 2022December 2, 2022Leave a comment

I love his freckles! And his hair!

A light-skinned black boy aged 10-12 standing with his hand on his hip. He has freckles and an afro. He's wearing a white T-shirt with 3 green and orange stripes across the chest. He has green cargo shorts and sneakers.

Number 7 of 150

December 5, 2022December 2, 2022Leave a comment

The project also includes diverse body types. So, this boy has a larger body type than the others so far.

Black boy aged 7-9 standing with his hand raised, palm up, as if holding something. He's wearing a salmon and black plaid button up shirt, black jeans, and sneakers.

Fourth One…

November 29, 2022November 27, 2022Leave a comment

Number four of 150.

This project was divided into 10 batches of 15 images each. Most batches had two little kids aged 4-6, 6 kids ages 7-9, 3 aged 10-13, and four adults. Most of the batches focused on a specific racial/ethnic group in order to ensure that we included a full range of ages and gender expressions for each racial/ethnic group, especially for the kids. We didn’t want to risk leaving anyone out.

As you can see, this guy is supposed to be black, age 7-9, thin body type, with a male gender expression, wearing glasses.