[Image: a sketchbook page of Audrey, a young woman of color, in various head poses.]
I’ve been thinking about Audrey quite a lot lately, and I decided I wanted to base her features off a different branch of African descent. (Before, she was loosely based on Gina Torres’s features.) I really want to see this sort of androgynous, broad, rounder face more often, and it’s pushing my drawing skills in a way that the Torres edition does not.
Most of this sketchbook page was an attempt to get the facial features looking like real life, since I have never drawn a person of color who looked exactly like this before. Then I tried to inject my personal style into the top-right and bottom-middle pictures, to mixed success.
Need more practice! And more photo references.
I’m not totally decided on what to do with her hair, either. I like the cropped-short look of these sketches, and they do fit Audrey’s personality; before, she had long curly hair like Gina, but I’m thinking her hair would be a completely different texture than before, so I don’t think she’d fuss with a lot of hair, it being the apocalypse and all.
