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17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)

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Do We Hate Drawing Crowd Scenes?

It's we hate drawing crowd scenes for this exact reason. You have to populate it with a realistic diversity of people. In prose, I don't know what that looks like because the moment you wrap words around a description of who is in the crowd,. You call our attention to them in ways that the background scribbles don't. And so, and so I'm answering the question with another question. I want to be diverse in the population that I put in the book but I don't want to inappropriately call a dungeon to something. I say inappropriately. It's hard to draw. So doing it right means for artists looking at photographs of places where it is done right, where everybody is

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