#Characters with facial differences

[saszor]

Happy Face Equality Week :-D

(short ID in alt text, longer below)

I really wanted to draw some happy people with facial differences for this week so:)

if you tag this as "tw scars" or some other "body horror" I'm killing u btw:D!!!

[Image description: digital drawing of 7 character with facial differences against a patterned background. The left side shows a gay couple sitting and hugging; one from them has a large bump on his forehead and widespread eyes, while the other has paralysis on one side of his face. In the middle is a teen girl cuddling with a cat, both of which are missing their left eye. Below her is a nonbinary person smoking a cigarette with heart-shaped smoke surrounding them; they have facial atrophy on one side of their face. The right side is split into three small panels; top one shows a Black girl with a cystic hygroma on her jaw on a pastel pink background, middle shows an Indian man with Crouzon syndrome from the side smiling, bottom is a zoom on the side of the head of a person with microtia; they're wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid and have a buzz cut with stars patterned in it. At the bottom, "Happy Face Equality Week" is written. End image description.]

[accessible-flatland-art]

[ID 1 above the read-more: Two drawings of A Square from the 2007 Flatland Film, now made into a three-dimensional cube rather than a two-dimensional square. First he is drawn with simple uncolored lines, frowning and with a speech box with his original flat form in it, then with more solid lines and color. He is drawn as a cube, with one corner cut out, showing his interrior, which is black with a pink zig-zag and visible brain, with stapes along the outer edges of the cut-out section. Opposite this is his eye, amd below is his mouth. "A²" is written below. End ID.]

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[ID 2 below the read-more: A longer portrait style canvas, with four drawings. The first is just uncolored lines, showing him from the front and slightly to the side, labeled, "not smiling, mouth just :| [an emoticon with a flat line for a mouth]". The second is sketchier, has color, and shows him from directly in front. The third shows him from behind, pointing at the open section of his head, labeling it, "Enclosed, just clear. Insides rotate to face viewer like 2D object in 3D game". The third drawing shows him frowning and holding his hands to his head, labeled, "2D [arrow] 3D painful." Blue handwritten text reads, "A Squared?" End ID.]

(Because some people are not aware, just so you know, if you ever change your username, everything under read-mores on your blog get deleted forever!)

I think flatland 2007 is the movie of all time it has fuckedd me RIGHT up. anyways here's my concept for a 3Ded A Square. The story is that A Sphere went "i bet I could make a FlatLander 3D." and then he did a horribly expensive and painful experiment on A Square. A Square was like, "this will be fine, My Holiness knows what he's doing" and then it hurt real bad

concept art i did on my phone <3

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[karvviie]

MY RVB FACECANONS!!!! I DREW THIS AT THE START OF 2021!! i’m still very proud of myself for drawing them all at once!

[almondpiglet]

just fooling around at the speed of sound... found a cool brush to play with...

[accessible-flatland-art]

[ID: Digital art showing A Sphere from the 2007 Flatland film, and A Shape, an original character from the fanfiction, The Arts of Being. The background is soft yellow, and the art is mostly lineness.

A Sphere is drawn in light gold, with half of his body covered in a giant burn scar, leaving him with one remaining eye, with a deep, dull red pupil, and scars on the same arm as the scar. He is reaching out for, and being held by A Shape, a being from a higher dimension. A Shape appears in this dimension as a cube with green, cyan, and magenta sides visible, with long deep blue tendrils with bulbs on the end, with smaller tendrils branching out like whiskers. It also has three floating square or diamond shaped panels, each with an eye with two eyelashes, which seem to smile at A Sphere, who looks at the cube 'body', while its tendrils hold him. End ID.]

shapesphere always winning

[evelyn-and-art]

TORSO STUDIES: Umemiya, Shitara, Takiishi and Togame

Art Studies with Eve #1

So lovely to work with them 🤭

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[rainbow-banana-slug]

eye strain warning

gummy 🌈🐬

[plain text: gummy 🌈rainbow emoji🐬dolphin emoji]

(^ shark emoji not blue enough)

[id: dark skinned black person with williams syndrome in decora kei fashion walk with posterior walker. person have pink hair with rainbow bangs n all sorts hair clips in hair & stickers on cheek. have many rainbow necklace include one with double yoke egg. wear blue sweater with white cloud where one sleeve is yellow horse with pink leash thing. there many pins on sweater include gummies (gummy shark, peach ring, gummy worm, gummy bear) & green crayons & others. she wear cross body green dino plushie (bag?). rainbow vertical stripe pants with rainbow n star chain. one shoe red one shoe blue. posterior walker made of different color crayons. there text around character describe her which be functionally described below. end id]

🌈🐬.

girl (complicated gender) with williams syndrome n love decora kei fashion & bright colors (she call them happy colors/excited colors)!! she has lotssss of bows n head pieces n hair clips n necklaces n bracelets n other decoration & big wardrobe with bright colored clothing! she love wear different outfits but it consistently decora kei.

she love gummy candy & named herself after them >:) blue/red gummy worm & blue gummy shark her favorites (blue gummy shark also my favorite. to look at.)

williams syndrome (also known as williams-beuren syndrome) is genetic developmental disorder micro-deletion of some of chromosome 7. for gummy, WS lead her have moderate intellectual disability (ID) & global developmental delay, level 2 autism, ADHD-c; congenital heart defects (CHD); hypotonia (low muscle tone), & loose joints.

like many people with WS, gummy very friendly & social! she love hugs & talking to people & talk lot & very physical in show affection! but also often struggle tell when other people not want be social / be social with her, be called “a lot” & “too much,” which lead her have trouble make n keep friends n make her sad—even tho WS make her extra outgoing, she also still get sad n mad n not hide it. she also struggle with danger awareness & often treat strangers like would with friend, n it been something that her support team very focused on work with her entire life because this lead her be very easily taken advantage of n be put in danger.

also like many ppl with williams syndrome, language & verbal abilities her strong suit—tho it’s relative to her moderate ID, so one shouldn’t expect she write speak communicate like average person without struggle. her words more simple, n still need many help for communication, including various form of AAC & aide person.

she has aides that pretty much 24/7 present because WS & moderate ID but working on skills so can be more independent! it something she been work very hard on entire life n she quite proud of progress.

she has many classic facial features associate with williams syndrome, like epicanthal folds at eye, upturned nose, wide mouth & small teeth, small jaw, full cheeks (badly drawn), n large ears.

70% or more people with WS have some sort cardiovascular problem, n so do gummy. she has supravalvar aortic stenosis (narrowing of aorta) which form of congenital heart defect (CHD). hers not very severe n be closely monitored.

she also have hypotonia & loose joints due to WS & uses posterior walker full time to get around. she really like her posterior walker, it shaped like many crayons :D also wear SMOs but forgot write it so oops

art fight character profile

[reblog welcome but please no repost]

[hiekka]

drawing a dynamic pose is off my lifetime bucketlist now i guess

[accessible-flatland-art]

(Archived read-more link)

‘I’m Atlas, and I aim to keep you alive.’

[ID: a digital drawing of four original Flatland characters - Liz, Atlas, Chief Jr. and 01 Isosceles.

Liz is a line creature who has a seven-point end with a white line to denote her mouth, which is her head end, and a five-point star on the other end of her body, which is her tail. Atlas is a light grey isosceles triangle with a beak-like mouth on his top corner, chips taken out of his top and bottom left corner and two scars on his side. Chief Jr. is a grey circle with a crescent moon marking, a beak-like mouth and a black crown on one of his edges. 01 isosceles is a dark grey isosceles triangle with a black line on his top corner to denote his mouth.

Atlas is in the bottom right of the scene, he is covered in his own blood and bleeding profusely from his various injuries to his corners and side, where the red blood is pooling. His mouth is turned into an open frown. Chief is to Atlas’s right. He has some small blood splatters around his beak and has a mortified, open-mouthed expression. Liz is above Atlas, her head is surrounded by a pool of blood with a blood trail in front leading back to her. Her mouth is turned down into a frown. 01 Isosceles is to Liz’s right, his top point with his mouth has been cut off the rest of his body. His mouth is a simple line devoid of any expression. There is some blood on the cut edges and it is heavily pooling between his body and decapitated top point.

The background is light grey with a slightly darker grey circle in the centre.

End ID.]

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another drawing and explanation (which includes descriptions of assault, murder, threat and characters suffering from ptsd / anxiety attacks. warning here and now if you don’t like reading that kinda stuff) based off of something i wrote down on another of the character reference sheets :

[Plain text ID: a screenshot of some black text highlighted in white on a light cream background that reads as follows: “his chipped top point was caused by his first (and only) violent interaction with Chief Circle’s personal guard - a much more burly and aggressive isosceles than Atlas”. End ID.]

but instead i’ve changed it so all of Atlas’s major scars and the chips on 2/3 of his corners came from this other guard.

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the attempted assassination had left Chief Circle’s personal isosceles, an unnamed guard who everyone has only ever heard of being referred to as ‘01 Isosceles’ (or just ‘01’ by Chief Sr. himself), incredibly stressed, paranoid and overly aggressive. it was his job - his ONLY job - to stop such an instance from happening. but he couldn’t. it had happened so fast. he was threatened for the slip-up by Chief Sr. (saying you’re going to off someone’s entire family is 10/10 motivation 🤩). this emotional build-up caused his violent and under-calculated confrontation with Atlas.

01 attacked in an attempt to split them apart after watching Atlas and Chief Jr. go into a secluded room together. to a not very lucid 01, it seemed that Atlas was luring Chief Jr. to a quiet spot so he could kill him and abandon his body where it wouldn’t be easily found. 01 was highly suspicious of everyone at this point, as the assassin hadn’t been yet found. Atlas didn’t know what was happening and tried defending himself and Chief, causing 01 to screech and cry out, alerting all surrounding servants and lower class guards to the scene.

in reality, Chief had wanted to get away from the flocking crowd of journalists in the courtyard asking about the recent attempted assassination on his father; he was the primary eye-witness. so Atlas took him to a quiet room to try and get him to calm down and catch his breath, as he was becoming overwhelmingly nervous and anxious.

as for why Liz was here, she’s almost always hanging around, or even inside, Circle Estate when she’s not at home, or in the city. (she’s mostly there to nick the fancy chocolate bon-bons they leave laying around or to eavesdrop on the staff’s gossip). which was extremely convenient for this situation, as she could hear the screaming from a few rooms down. Atlas would have absolutely died with just one more strike from 01 (who was getting ready to deliver the final finishing blow before Liz managed to slice his upper point off, effectively and quickly killing him).

but after the failed assassination on Chief Circle (although never being identified as a suspect), being seen covered in the blood of Chief Circle’s personal guard by several servants who arrived all too late to 01’s side was not a good look for Elizabeth. or anyone else in the room with her at that time…who were all also bloody messes at this stage (whether the blood belonged to them or not). only for the fact that none of the particular servants present had the full ability of sight recognition was Liz able to get away unidentified. again. but not without leaving a literal and figurative trail of blood behind herself…

[gayaest]

[oc] Saad’s younger brother: Najib! 🌱🫒

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[snailfen]

(me watching toh for the first time) hehehe hunter..... like hunter rain worldd..... :)

so, hunters! hunter(rw) prolly thinks hunter(toh) has overcome some incredible beasts (she isnt wrong,)

[sans-guy]

there is an internal guide i have to drawing the skeletons and how i use their eyelights for stuff. a look into my twisted mind

[accessible-flatland-art]

[ID: A digital drawing showing A Shape and A Sphere from The Arts of Being against a grey background. A Shape is a higher dimensional being who appears as a cube with two long tendrils with rounded bulbs at the end, each with four whisker-like smaller tendrils branching off. It has many eyes that appear to float in thin air, each a slightly different shape, but all looking at A Sphere, crinkled slightly as though smiling. A sphere is a sphere with two long thin arms, with half his body drawn in black to show his extensive burn scars. He clings to one of A Shape's tendrils with his uninjured arm. End ID.]

im not going to be posting much intersting things sorry

[bixels]

I'm so in love with everything about your art!! I wanted to ask something about your MLP human designs in particular. all of them have really lovely and interesting face shapes/details. even though all the pony designs have the same head molds (save for eye shape), all the unique characteristics you gave them just... look RIGHT. is there a particular method or design principle you used? thanks for your time!! I can't wait to see more of your work!

It's all about shape language and how they inform a person's read on the character.

I talked about this before, but each of the Main 6 were paired together so I could design them in contrast with each other. For RD, I wanted her short hair to have a wind-swept look, as if she's constantly running. So bare forehead and hair spiking out at the bottom. She contains lots and lots of sharp lines and shapes to give her the look of a speeding arrow.

Felice, on the other hand, droops down a lot to reflect her solemn, shy disposition. I didn't want her hair to be perfectly straight though, as that'd suggest she spends a lot of time fretting over it and isn't outdoorsy, so I made it a bit of a tangled mess too.

In short, RD's features are sharp and point upwards, Felice's features are round and droop downwards. (Think Joshua tree vs. weeping willow.)

For these two, I specifically wanted to include non-Western facial features, as I found I haven't really included them in my character designs up until now.

Pinkie's bold and loud, so I gave her bold eyes, bold eyebrows, a bold nose, etc. I worked on Thea's nose for quite a bit and ended up abstracting the shape a bit to look more cartoony, borrowing from Pixar's Soul's character design notes. In cases like these, I recommend finding ways to simplify features and break them down into easily-recognizable shapes and forms (Cartoon Saloon are masters at this). The less visual noise, the easier their expressions are to read! And it's generally more fun to draw.

In short, diversify, exaggerate, and simplify. Figure out what works for you and get a little wacky with it. Character design is all about finding a balance between maintaining your voice and vision and creating something unique and lively.

[alicenpai]

about to clean up 12 characters wish me luck JDJHDJHDGDGF