Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #57 - Disability Diversity

[goss]

July is Disability Pride Month. The goal of this month's challenge is to portray persons of diverse abilities.

Challenge #57: Disability Diversity

Create a drawing featuring a disabled person.

eg. A character from your favourite fandom, a self-portrait, a figure study, an original character, etc.

The comment section of this post may be used for discussion of the prompt (ie. ideas, suggestions, questions, etc.). For further clarification:

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Disability is the discrimination people face due to the failure of society to eliminate the barriers encountered due to impairments, whether they be physical, organisational, or social. Read more on the social model of disability here, as well as further information on disability from the World Health Organisation here.

Some types of disabilities:

• Vision
  
• Movement
  
• Thinking
  
• Remembering
  
• Learning
  
• Communicating
  
• Hearing
  
• Mental health
  
• Social relationships

Although disabled people sometimes refers to a single population, this is actually a diverse group of people with a wide range of needs. Two people with the same type of disability can be affected in very different ways. Chronic illness can be a disability. Some disabilities may be hidden or not easy to see.

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A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done on Monday 31st July, 2023.

Happy Drawing, everyone! :)

Comments

[amberdreams]

No clue if I'll have time to tackle it but I love this idea!

[goss]

Hope you get a chance to take part this month. :) I'm looking forward to it, especially as I've a bit of free time this month.

I'm thinking of drawing Maya Lopez (Echo) from Hawkeye. I really enjoyed her character introduction in the Marvel tv show. <3

[amberdreams]

SPN had a deaf character called Eileen who was rather awesome (played by Shoshanna Stern). My aunty Norah went deaf when she was 16 after mastoid operations on both ears, and was one of the first people in the UK to get fitted with a cochlear implant, so I feel a deaf character (or maybe even Norah!) might be the way to go, if I do tackle this one. 😁

[mekare]

\o/

[goss]

Woo! \o/