Paper Girls - visual inspiration

I also went back to Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan (authors called Brian are my jam right now I guess) and Cliff Chiang. It's not often you get a coming of age story set in the 80s which centres entirely on girls and has absolutely nothing to do with boys. Literally nothing at all. I can only remember three boys in the volume and one is abducted by aliens and the other two get mangled in the wall of a spaceship time machine. Oh well.
Paper Girls is so refreshing because a young female perspective isn't one you often see in this sort of book, an the characters are all distinct and compelling in completely different ways to one another. The art style has definitely given me something to think about regarding character, as colour and contrast can be equally as important in communicating character as the actual design of the person themselves. The atmosphere of the illustration is what I’m interested in, rather than being portrait perfect to whoever it is I’m drawing.