🐲Sufian
Freelance Artist, He/they, 23 years old. 🌈✨
hi i'm sufian azra (he/him). ✨
i'm a 24 yr old queer, disabled + plural artist from Western Australia!
I am a digital freelance artist and designer, i work in various digital mediums ranging from cartoon illustration to realistic painting.
⤑ I take a lot of inspiration from my lived life & circumstances;
• In my personal life i am chronically ill with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Subtype) primarily.
(because of this I use a wheelchair to get around most days!)
• I am also neurodivergent with AuDHD + schizoaffective disorder, PF-DID and complex PTSD.
Some more about me…
⤑ I was born in a rural Western Australian town, before moving to Perth where i grew up!
My family are of a mix of various types of Jewish descent, among other things...
⤑ I am Moroccan Sephardi Jewish on my mums side & German Ashkenazi Jewish on my dad’s side.
As you might imagine, i grew up in between the two differing cultures & found myself feeling quite lost during my childhood, mostly due to not fitting in very much with my white peers.
⤑ Then add on the additional contexts of being disabled & autistic and not to mention queer & trans.
Furthermore…
⤑ I feel that due to my lived circumstances being a minority & growing up feeling isolated and alone,
representation matters a lot to me.
⤑ If i hadn’t have seen other people like me getting around online, in bodies like mine, i don’t know where i would be today.
⤑ And so i want to create works which represent
real people & human diversity.
art is also my outlet…
it enables me to work comfortably from home as a disabled & chronically ill person!✨
⤑ I specifically like to draw fantasy characters from my favourite anime and design anthropomorphic characters in my spare time!
Some of the special interests and inspirations for my work come from my personal context with having psycho-social disability, being Lgbtqia+ and physically disabled.
in my spare time I work with local trans* not-for-profits, producing freelance artwork on the fly; and I attend local conventions and markets annually to sell my artwork as merchandise when I can! ✌️
❤ All proceeds & earnings from commissioned work go towards my business and medical costs !!
