Fiction Adaptation - The Creation of the Characters

My characters where quite tough to create. What I wanted to create was basically like a system where I had all the clothes of my character with the facial expressions and just change it and play with it around. In order to do that I needed to design a basic skeleton for my characters which was going to work for both of them most likely. Having absolutely no hair or clothes or anything the very original drawing of my character was this:

With this base all I needed to do was basically start adding the hair and clothes and give it a little bit of shape which was going to lead slowly into the creation of my actual characters. The things I needed to work on was the hair of Sophie, which needed to match the real one, brown, a bit straight with waves and having a flick on the right side. After that it all went down to designing the clothes as well. This was a bit of the outcome of her without the facial expressions:

The idea was to have the facial expressions apart so hat I could just change them every time I was to vary instead of having to have a character with every single expression every time. I was to design just the face that then would be added to the character above. This is an example of a standard face:

With this base created, I could now just play with the character and just start creating all the different outfits and expressions that I wanted to use.