Colonel Shar figure sketches (Patreon)

Sgt Rek and the Colonel have the most difficult figures for me to stay on-model with; Rek because he's huge and I have a tendency to draw characters with tapered-anatomy (ie: smaller hands/feet, bigger mid-areas), when he's supposed to have that Humberto Ramos early 2000s Image Comics big-fisted chunkiness to him.  

The Colonel on the other hand is hard because: 

- She's got digitigrade legs (normally that "Zootopia Plantigrade" look is easier for me) 

- Not just female anatomy but a specific kind of uncommonly athletic female figure.  

- Her freakin almond head shape 

- THAT BERET, how does it sit properly on her weird head?  

Bad figure construction really sneaks up on me, so as you see here, I have to occasionally delve into basic figure stuff to make sure I'm not letting anatomical impossibilities occur underneath my dense shadows.  

Anyways while these are pretty tame and inspired by a bit of Samus and Cammy from Street Fighter, I generally don't post "Gym Colonel" sketches around TOO publicly.  I want the audience to enjoy her as she is in the book first before they get a *cough* "Metroid Good Ending" version of her.