Okay, so it’s no substitute for drawing from life, but a mannequin useful for figuring out poses and lighting. As you can see I also used my 3D cartoon head for reference. Now I just need a model hand (real or virtual), and I’m all set.

I’m setting a dangerous precedent by not posting my own work here, but some days I find myself doing more observing than drawing. Today I was going through some Looney Tunes, trying to analyze the action, when I stumbled across this moment in “Kitty Kornered” I think this has to be the greatest cartoon “take” ever. The screenshots above are only a handful of the poses.

I realize I should be studying Disney first, to figure out the “right” way to animate, but I can’t resist this stuff.

After some Spring cleaning and setting the clocks forward, I’m feeling just a little bitter that we didn’t get a Winter here.

Here’s this week’s self-portrait homework. When setting up the scene I obviously forgot to consider that I have no experience drawing glass or liquids. Fortunately my teacher seems to be obsessed with painting glass marbles, so she’ll surely have some pointers.

A collage of some more post-morning-run sketches.