Thanks for the book recommendation Meg. Yes, I saw the mention of demographics. As someone who’s illustrating different levels of facial and figure abstractions myself, I think the notion of needing to illustrate different people, not different attributes is an interesting but quite hard to pin down idea. I mean, drawing and illustrating can be said to have a scale from, perhaps, most abstract to most realistic. I don’t know if more realism is necessarily a better thing. When’s it enough realism? When’s it too much? Or even patronizing or inaccurate? Or is less realism more abstract better?? I don’t know and I think the person who’s affected would be able to answer this better then I. Ultimately, a two dimensional drawing is usually meant to be a suggestion or an indication of a person or a thing…a read if you will. I know, you know this, but…if I try to be more realistic, is my inevitable misunderstanding of someone else’s life experience actually more offensive? In any event, thanks for daring to post on such a nuanced, sensitive, but necessary topic—having the conversation is certainly important! I do hope some folks that are truly being affected by all this chime in with THEIR feelings, as that’s who’s opinion really counts in this conversation ;)