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Drawesome Challenge 51 - BIPOC Diversity in Fantasy

Challenge #51 - BIPOC Diversity in Fantasy

Create a drawing featuring BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People Of Colour) as Fantasy folk.

For January's challenge, create visuals of BIPOC as fantasy creatures, such as elves and other traditionally "fair" folk, fairies, mermaids, dwarves, etc.

Additional Notes:

- For our challenge, the term 'POC' or People of Colour in the acronym 'BIPOC' refers to people who are non-White or not of European descent.

- Please note that BIPOC are often relegated to villainous roles in (Western) Fantasy settings, or are sometimes completely absent from these worlds. Therefore, the purpose of this challenge is for artists to go beyond the "default" standard of beauty as seen in the Fantasy genre, and expand to portraying BIPOC in more diverse roles. eg. a Black mermaid, a brown-skinned elf, a person of Asian descent as a wizard, etc.

- Since the focus is to feature BIPOC visually, please note that blue/green-skinned creatures would not qualify as "diversity of skin colour" for this particular challenge.

- You are welcome to create your own fantasy character, or select a character that is canonically BIPOC, as subject matter for your artwork. Racebending of a canonically white character would also be permitted.

Hope that clears things up, but please feel free to ask in the comments if you're not sure about the subject matter. The comment section of this post may be used for discussion of the challenge (ie. brainstorming ideas, suggestions, questions, etc.).

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of the month on Tuesday 31st January, 2023.

Happy Drawing, everyone! :)