Engaging in animation practice, like any good Disney employee. I analyzed a few frames Groucho Marx slapping a guy, and am trying to recreate some of the gestures.

This is also known as procrastination–I should be working on a comic strip. Which I’d probably be drawing right now if I were procrastinating on an animation.

Sigh. Can you see why I was a C student?

Revisiting the bear; I know this looks rough, but it’s actually better-constructed than the bear I posted the other day, in that he’s made up of well-defined 3D shapes, making it easy to visualize what he’ll look like from all different angles. As a bonus, his features are closer to my natural style of doodling, so I think I’ll have a lot more fun drawing this version.

I’m sure there will be like 10 more versions, and by then he’ll be a turtle.

Was thinking about seeing “The Artist”, and realized it these actors might be fun to caricature. It’s especially fun because they’re basically unknowns, so I didn’t have any preconceptions about what their caricatutures should look like.

Those who have seen it, yea or nay?

Here’s tomorrow’s homework, done in vine charcoal as usual. Took me about 3 tries before my perspective was anywhere in the ballpark; was hard to get my brain to accept that my knee should be about as big as my head, because it’s closer to the viewer.

Oh, and in case you think I’m a narcissist for always doing homework drawings of myself, the assignment is always to draw from life (no photos), and I’m the only person I’m willing to ask to sit for a portrait. (Even then, it’s awkward.) But hey, if you’re volunteering…

Here’s the latest incarnation of the cartoon bear I’ve been toying with; he’ll likely be the main character in a comic strip contest I’m entering. He’s still too generic-looking, but I think I’ll just have to settle for something like this for now, if I hope to make the deadline.