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If you don't mind me asking, why would you say this was out of your comfort zone?
It's partially to do with technique - this is a greyscale to color piece rather than starting with color or only greyscale, and I drew and painted the character first, before adding a background (I usually paint that as I go too).
That being said skin tone, gender and clothing textures were things I tried to push in this too. I have a pretty solid portfolio of generic white fantasy males in leather armor - the opportunity to explore things like how an African character often doesn't have brown skin but rather a spectrum from red to purple, or the differences in facial features even between people on two different sides of a continent were details I hadn't explored before. The person got up in arms that I would consider an African character subject a 'study' and thought it to be condescending.
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