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To show diversity, the illustrators should not just be based on assumptions or stereotypes. Fortunately, there has a lot of methods to avoid this situation and show equality and diversity in the illustration, such as making the illustrations is to base the drawings on a real location on the planet, or not only searching the surface of some culture but also digging down for its history and understand the meaning from their perspective, or you can seek balance in your compositions by drawing similar amounts of people who have a different culture.
Schenker M., 2021, Showcasing Diversity in Illustration: Advice From 10 Artists
https://creativemarket.com/blog/showcasing-cultural-diversity-illustration
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Explained
https://www.thegcindex.com/equality-diversity-inclusion-explained/
The Mind Behind The Illustration Magic: A Conversation With Beatrice Blue with Playgrounds TV https://www.artstation.com/learning/courses/oJv/the-mind-behind-the-illustration-magic-a-conversation-with-beatrice-blue/chapters/mEXw/part-1
Gallagher A., 2022, Beatrice Blue - A Lion & Dragonfly Interview
https://lionanddragonfly.com/blogs/news/beatrice-blue-a-lion-dragonfly-interview
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Diversity and equality are very important topics for people, and so do the illustrations, professional illustrators are influential, and so for their illustrations, the information from the illustration would affect a lot of audiences.
For book illustration, one of Beatrice Blue’s works “Once Upon a Dragon's Fire” is a good example, the story was based on an imaginary place, and the building that this book has shown is very clear that were different culture combing together, according to the interview, Beatrice Blue said that she is always moving, and so it allows her to get to know the myths and architecture from various cultures.