Question: Do You Have Any Blind Characters/designs, And How Do Or Would You Go About Designing Blind

Question: do you have any blind characters/designs, and how do or would you go about designing blind eyes (since there are variations of blindness), esp in line art?

I don't have any blind characters, no, but I've done some research on it and from what I can tell the majority of blind people don't have much visibly different with their eyes.

It's a common shorthand to make the iris pale or clouded, as things like cataracts can lead to fogginess (this is more of when you colour the pupil/parts of the iris lighter rather than with the lineart), but from what I've heard this can be a bit annoying to always see in blind characters. If it's trauma-based blindness, there can be scars (which can typically affect the skin around the eye as well), but otherwise there's not much difference in blind eyes.

Honestly, most signs of someone being blind are in body language and occasionally facial expressions as they'll interact with the world in a less visually-dependent way. Someone with partial blindness or light-sensitive vision might respond to sudden movements or changes in environment, while someone with no vision would respond to sound or texture, etc.

Another signifier of blindness for character design can involve disability aids, and it's good to do research for the setting and the form of blindness the character has. If your character can still see contrast of dark and light, they'd usually keep their eyes unobscured, but if they instead get photosensitive headaches or risk retina burns, they might wear sunglasses or another form of protective masking. Canes are another common aid along with assistive animals to have a wider understanding of your surrounding, or to have an indicator of blindness so people around can accommodate you better, and the design of these can be changed a bit to fit the setting and character.

This is all dependent on the character's form of blindness, their personality, needs, and environment. It's a good way to communicate these things about a character if you do research in how it'd manifest. Though, at the end of the day you can have a blind character with no distinct design difference from a sighted character. In many ways, it impacts the writing and body language more than the base design.

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