Number 66 of 150

May 3, 2023April 28, 2023Leave a comment

I was proud of several things on this one. The wheelchair, the leaves, her face at that upward angle. I think she’s enjoying herself.

A cartoon illustration of a South Asian girl sitting in a motorized wheelchair and happily throwing a bunch of autumn leaves into the air. She is wearing a red winter cap, red vest, light purple long-sleeved t-shirt, jeans, and slip-on sneakers. She is belted into her chair.

Number 65 of 150

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023Leave a comment

A skateboarder with a prosthetic arm. One of those 3D printed ones in the fun colors. The client chose the colors.

I particularly like how the kid’s t-shirt print came out. This was changed in the final phase with the client instructing me to create a geometric print for their shirt.

The long hair was included both to help show a little more movement and to make the character’s gender a little more ambiguous.

A cartoon illustration of a child riding a skateboard. The child is gender ambiguous and has a prosthetic arm. They are wearing a helmet, t-shirt, loose jeans, and sneakers. They have medium-length, brown hair

Number 64 of 150

April 29, 2023March 20, 2023Leave a comment

This one was fun. He’s cute, throwing that snowball. And drawing winterwear feels so warm and cozy. I enjoyed drawing the little detail on the hat and gloves so much that I went on to decorate several more characters’ winter wear the same way later in the project.

A cartoon illustration of an East Asian boy, aged 7-9, throwing a snowball. He's wearing an adhesive eye patch with a colorful pattern. He's dressed for playing in the snow, with black snow boots, navy snowpants, a gray thermal shirt, light blue puffer coat with a fleece collar, and red knit mittens and hat.

Number 63 of 150

April 27, 2023March 20, 2023Leave a comment

Here’s a girl at a birthday party who uses a wheelchair. I broke out my perspective ruler tools for this one.

A cartoon illustration of a Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander girl age 7-9. She is a wheelchair user sitting with a wrapped present in her lap. She's in a blue, manual wheelchair. She's wearing grey leggings, pink slip-on shoes, pink t-shirt, and a pink striped cardigan. Her long black hair is wavy and pulled back on the top, loose on the bottom. She is smiling.

Number 62 of 150

April 25, 2023April 27, 2023Leave a comment

This boy is walking with forearm crutches. I was to draw him as if he were walking to school wearing a backpack. I actually kind of like drawing backpacks, for some reason.

A cartoon illustration of a black boy, aged 4-6, walking with forearm crutches. He's wearing a backpack, two-tone t-shirt, athletic shorts, and sneakers.

Number 61 of 150

April 23, 2023April 24, 2023Leave a comment

Starting a new batch. This round will be 15 illustrations of diverse people with various visible disabilities. From this point on, I feel like the poses the client requestes got more interesting. A little bit more dynamic? I do feel like the characters in the previous batches got short-changed a little, though. They also started incorporating props.

Anyway, the first one’s a little girl with a cochlear implant playing the tambourine.

A little Latina girl, age 4-6, stands playing a tambourine. Her head is turned to the side so we can see that she has a cochlear implant. She's wearing a t-shirt under a blue and white striped jumper dress, and pink sandals. Her brown hair is pulled back in a ponytail.

Number 56 of 150

April 13, 2023March 20, 2023Leave a comment

The last child for this batch, with groovy tie-dye.

A cartoon illustration of an Indigenous child aged 10-12. They are walking towards the left while waving. They have their long, black hair in two braids and their smile shows a slight gap between their two front teeth. They are wearing jeans, red sneakers, and a pink tie-dyed t-shirt with a tribal-style bear paw print.

Number 55 of 150

April 11, 2023March 20, 2023Leave a comment

A boy with longer, shaggy hair. The hair reference the client gave me for this one was a picture of D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear Smallhill in Reservation dogs.

I’m not really sure why, but some of the characters in this project were supposed to be drawn with them holding up their hand(s) as if holding something. This was a collaborative project, with different artists handing different parts, so that’s not too weird. But I was never told what they were to be holding. Any guesses?