Rude gestures

 I had this idea for a longer form project.  When I tried thumbnailing it out, I realized that type of composition is not something I actually know much about.  So, while I'm trying to learn more about that, here are some miscellaneous whatevers; some related to the story idea, some not.
     

      I tried to make something that looked dangerous, but I botched that and made it kind of adorable.  It looks like it wants to play you songs on a Casio or chase a laser pointer.

      So the bigger guy here was also supposed to be intimidating, all coming at you with crab claw pincers, but the sketch sort of looks like he's got lunch under control.  Linework would probably make a huge difference on that guy. 
     The choober is my favourite. I don't want to say too much about it, but I definitely have plans for it. 

      These are just throwaway gesture line things.  Gesture is one of the utter fundamental basics, which I still forget about and struggle with sometimes. 

     Still some difficulties on anatomy and perspective.   Other than the arm and gun being weird I kind of like this page. 

     Some stiffness in my action poses yet, so I made the face because I wanted someone to look at it approvingly.  Anyway, here's the first draft of a thumbnail of the thing I'm trying to figure out.  There are more pages of thumbnails but it's all chaos and scribbles right now.

     Also, I've been continuing to try learning about digital painting.  There are more than a few failed attempts at that sitting on my hard drive, but I do feel like there has been improvement.  Now and then I notice there's a tool I wasn't aware of and I'm all like

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