{"id":4505,"date":"2012-11-07T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2012-11-07T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T21:02:38","slug":"i-draw-some-of-my-favorite-female-characters-from-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"I Draw Some of My Favorite Female Characters from Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been a very confident drawer or designer of female comics characters and I’ve always struggled with them. One of the main characters in Oyster War<\/em><\/a>, Lourdes, is a design that I’ve gotten less and less happy with as the story goes on and I’ve pretty much decided to re-design her head\/face and redraw all instances of her, should Oyster War<\/em> ever see print.<\/p>\n

As a kind of “warm up” for that process, I decided I’d try to draw some of my favorite female characters\/character designs from comics–and try to get them as close to the originals as possible. Here’s the final result. I’ll post scans of the originals with a key toward the bottom of the post.\u00a0 Do you know these characters? How’d I do duplicating them?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>… and here’s the inked pre-colored page from my sketchbook:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’re the original characters:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Top-to-bottom, left-to-right:<\/p>\n

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  1. Anna Greengables – from King City<\/em> by Brandon Graham<\/li>\n
  2. Adele Blanc-Sec – from the Adele Blanc-Sec<\/em> series by Jacques Tardi<\/li>\n
  3. Sonnet – from Zombies Calling<\/em> by Faith Erin Hicks<\/li>\n
  4. Ursula Major – from Asterios Polyp<\/em> by David Mazzucchelli<\/li>\n
  5. Genoa – from The Unsinkable Walker Bean<\/em> by Aaron Renier<\/li>\n
  6. Annie – from Paul Has a Summer Job<\/em> by Michel Rabagliati<\/li>\n
  7. Wonder Woman – from The New Frontier<\/em> by Darwyn Cooke<\/li>\n
  8. Enid Coleslaw – from Ghost World<\/em> by Dan Clowes<\/li>\n
  9. Belladonne\u00a0– from the\u00a0Belladonne<\/em> series by Pierre Alary<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve never been a very confident drawer or designer of female comics characters and I’ve always struggled with them. One of the main characters in Oyster War, Lourdes, is a design that I’ve gotten less and less happy with as the story goes on and I’ve pretty much decided to re-design her head\/face and redraw … <\/p>\n

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