Figure Drawing + Cartoons

Here are 28 pages - a mix between mastercopies, figure drawing at LCAD and Dr. Sketchy's. Here's what happened - I would be copying some stylized cartoons and I would like... wow! My drawings so awesome! My girls look really sexy! Then I go to actual figure drawing and I'm like.. crap! why are my girls so ugly... And then I would go back to the cartoons and analyze the proportions, the idealizations, the curves vs. straight, the squash, stretch, gesture and THRUST! And figure out how to give my figures a lot more life and character!

First attempt at STYLIZED figure drawing. I redraw the poses at home to figure out what went wrong.

 Realistic vs Stylized

Figure drawing at LCAD - adding a lot of sharp angels. It's cool. Going for a Bruce Timm feel.

 Figure drawing at Dr. Sketchy's - I really like these gestures. I felt like I really got the hang of it.

 This is based off a live pose which I stylized and added storytelling/ character elements. I was really proud of myself having been able to push it this far. This was definitely way beyond my usual comfort zone.

 Another really stylized pose. These two dogs posed with the model.

Going back and forth between realistic and stylized.

some dave pimentel studies and black marker studies from photographs. gonna try some more marker stuff.