Meme - Day 26

This should be good lol.

26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture.

I can't draw. I can barely draw stick figures. There is no way I would ever be able to accurately draw any character I thought of. Unless the character really looked like a stick figure.

I envy people with the skill to draw their characters, but I can't bring what I see in my head to a page. The best I do is cast actors or models or just plain people I see in ads or on TV or even in public into the roles. I've used friends as physical bases for characters, I've used actors, musicians, athletes, models etc. Sometimes I just have a vague idea and I search for a picture to represent them.

Joy and Libby were very early on based on an image of a woman I saw in a catalogue with red hair. I also found a picture of Heather Graham back in the early '90s, and her curly hair was like what I was looking for. I later used Israeli model Maayan Keret as a physical base for the characters, as she suited my vision of them exactly. You can see a picture of her here - http://snarkerati.com/profile_pics/Maayan-Keret.jpg