alicekaninchenbau:

gingerkodama:

alicekaninchenbau:

PLEASE NOTE: The art is very anatomically inaccurate in both of these sketches as it’s very cartoony/stylized. The point of it is to showcase the main difference between a very short and a very tall adult person to help learning artists get at least some kind of a basic idea on how to draw short people, and help them avoid unintended erasure of short people and people with dwarfism. But like with all art, always look for proper photos and other references to learn to draw short people in an anatomically accurate way. This is only a tip and a reminder on a mistake I see way too often (/looks at all this fanart of Amethyst from Steven Universe and gets extremely sad)

So to recap and better explain my points:

• You can’t draw an average height-person and then just resize the drawing to make them shorter- they’ll look like somebody shrunk them with magic instead of being actually short
• Drawing a shorter person means that they’ll have shorter limbs. Whether they’re only slightly shorter than average, a lot shorter than average or a person with dwarfism does however affect how much shorter those limbs and other body parts (head, hands, feet) are.
• While the limbs (arms, legs, spine) are shorter, the limbs don’t get skinnier or thinner (much;; again, depends on how much shorter they are, as well as their weight/BMI. The difference between underweight and overweight is a lot smaller with shorter people than taller people!)
• Short people can still have different bodytypes- some are curvier, some are more muscular, some are like bananas, some like potatoes. (In the picture we had cartoonishly curvy people, most people aren’t going to be that curvy though and it’s okay)
• THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS!!! Pygmy people for example.

Did you get all that? Now go, do some research, and go draw some beautiful short human beings you wonderful artist! I BELIEVE IN YOU! ♥♥♥

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I feel I must put my input to spread a little dwarfism awareness!

There is such a thing as proportionate dwarfism and primordial dwarfism. These can be the result of hormonal imbalances or genetic mutations.
This leads the affected individual to be dwarfed yet just as ‘proportionate’ as somebody who is 6ft.
For example there is Growth Hormone Deficiency, Russell Silver Syndrome (which I have), MOPD, 3M Syndrome etc.

Then you have disproportionate dwarfism.
This is when bone growth is affected. The most common form of disproportionate dwarfism is achondroplasia where the cartilage doesn’t form to bone properly. There are all sorts of disproportionate dwarfisms. Some affect the limbs (like achondroplasia), while others can affect the torso etc.

I am just really tired of people telling me that I am not a dwarf because I am proportionate. I have a genetic mutation. I am a totally miniature version of a regular sized human.
Just because you don’t see people such as myself often, does not mean it doesn’t happen.

I really appreciate your art, I think it is lovely and I love that you are spreading awareness of how some short people are built differently but please please please understand and be aware that shrunk-in-the-wash little people happen.

Oh you weren’t rude at all! That was a very good debunk/disclaimer you added that people should know about, including me— I’m no expert on the different forms of dwarfism (as you could probably tell). This was sort of just a passive aggressive rant (on how fanartists draw a specific character) that I tried to turn into something a little bit more productive and helpful. And I did add a tiny note about how there are exceptions to my tip, but yeah, I should’ve done a little bit more research and done a more well-thought-out and accurate tutorial.

I’m sorry I spread harmful misinformation, especially on a subject that’s very close to my heart too. I won’t half-ass this again, I’ll do my research properly so that others won’t have to correct my mistakes and do my research for me.