No more floating heads!

Sometimes I tend to obsess over one thing for a long time, and then totally forget how to do anything else. For the past few months I've been drawing faces out of magazines without ever trying to attach them to a body, so now I'm gonna go back and try drawing some actual poses. These first ones are from the celebrity cellulite section of Star. The girls in the pictures actually had their heads turned away, so the faces I gave them don't really resemble anyone.

I'm not really happy with how these drawings lean more towards "realistic" than cartoony. I'll always prefer a funny cartoony type picture to a more realistic one. My problem is that when I ignore all the drawing rules, like construction and perspective, and rely on spontaneity when I draw, they always come out funnier and cuter and more alive. Of course, they're always filled with anatomy problems and whatnot. But when I actually try to use my brain while I'm drawing, and try to control the pen in my hand, the drawings come out sort of dead. In these other drawings, I'm attempting to keep some sort of structure in the bodies while trying not to let them seem too boring.
As you can tell, my plan didn't work out out very well, but I guess that's what this blog is for...to force me to see where I desperately need work. To me these drawings lack in both the things I'm trying for- they still have a lot of problems with flow and construction, and lack the "energy" of my more retarded drawings. Oh well, back to the drawing board!