Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12736261-20140708180230/@comment-10734109-20150303221015

From what I recall, Ryland was pretty short (5'3"), so we could change that to 5'6" if he's a dude.

I think that if we're gonna genderbend Audrey, we could probably go with the name "Adrian" because Addie sounds a bit like something that could be a nickname for either that or Addison. Of course, Audrey is (as you said) pretty girly, so that's why I've sort of been leaning towards changing either Xela or Josie. Xela seems pretty masculine, and Josie is somewhere in between. A lot of Audrey's likes, on the other hand, would either create serious acceptance issues with the other boys, and/or he wouldn't be taken seriously. Then again, if we adjusted some of them a tad we could probably work in some of the teasing and such without having the girliness be TOO over the top. If we do change Audrey's gender, I just have one request. Could we make him hetero instead of homo (if his orientation ever becomes important in the storyline), because I've seen a general trend where people like to make feminine male characters, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them is gay.

We probably shouldn't change Xela's gender, since I don't think we really have any athletic females (though we do have a pretty physically weak male character (Farid)). Also regarding Xela, I think it would fit her personality better to be into acting and then also want to be a stunt artist.



I also drew female Audrey and Jenna yesterday, since we haven't really established any friendships with Jenna and the other characters. Of course, as with the last sketches I did these are more conceptual than anything. It's basically taking the original character sketches and differentiating them from the rest of the cast so that everyone doesn't necessarily look like the same character with different hair/clothing. Anyway, I was thinking that since both Audrey and Jenna are possibly the most girly AND bossy characters in our cast so far.

I need to practice drawing in the set style a bit more. I'm slowly slipping back to my own art styles xD,