Dad's Army

Yesterday while watching Dad's Army I paused it and did these quick sketches, I'm trying to draw quicker while still retaining acuracy. Sit coms are good to study for facial expressions and charicter interaction. The expression on Walkers face is very sly and sneaky looking, James Beck the actor who played Walker died tragically young I always thought the show was never quite the same without him.

The IT Crowd

Here are some quick sketches I did from my tv screen, I'm trying to get specific atitudes, poses and expressions. I often find myself making marks that are just fudging and don't do much to describe the form, I still find hard to keep things in proportion I need to measure more, get rid of unintentional distortion that tends to make my drawings look like caricatures .

Red Hot Riding Hood

I did this quick sketch from a screen capture it really gave me some problems, the angle on the eyes was really hard to get right, I still don't think I've got them right and the left arm is way too long! Preston Blair who animated this charicter for Tex Avery was an incredible animator, she may be a caricature but he knows all there is to know about human anatomy, his book Advanced Animation is a must for anyone who wants to improve there drawing skills

Here's another attempt just trying to think in terms of form and construction I think might be an improvement.

Finally here a Bugs Bunny sketch I did a while ago not to sure about it Bugs is so hard to get right. It's taken from a Bob Clampett film Corny Concerto, it has to be one of the greatest of the Warner Brothers Loony Tunes no one else directed bugs like Clampett everything is on the edge of manic histeria.