I wanted to try my hand out at drawing a reclining woman, and this sunbathing African fisherwoman is what came out of that. I didn’t have a particular culture in mind for her, but I think she could come from almost anywhere along the continent’s shores within the last few thousand years. One thing I do like about drawing characters from the lesser-studied areas of antiquity is that you have a lot more creative license with designing them than you would with, say, the Romans or the Persians.