Descent Into Week 2: Sketch-o-potamus

So, given that I knew we'd be needing to dive into gesture type stuff pretty quickly in this term, I've been carting around my sketchbook the past few weeks just in case I saw anything interesting.  Figured I'd go ahead and throw up the better stuff I was able to tweak out.

First couple samples are from the past weekend at the beach.  It's been forever since I've done any gesture drawings of this type and I realized quickly that my speed has semi-deserted me. :)  I was hoping for more action-y type stuff, as it was a beautiful day and not very hot, but everyone was content to loung/stroll it seemed.  Didn't get much of anything dynamic, and what little I did get I had to capture in just a few seconds and then tweak out from memory afterwards:

These next crop of thumbs were from a couple weeks ago at a few airports while my wife and I were traveling.  Most were more interesting looking than the beach stuff, but were also generally a lot of people doing similar things.  One plus about these was that I could typically get more sketch done before folks moved, since you're doing a lot of standing around waiting at the airport, so I was able to flesh these out a little more on the spot for each of these:

At any rate, that's where I'm at so far.  Haven't started playing with any actual posing in Maya yet, though I think a couple from this group could be interesting, but I'm hoping to hit the dog park tomorrow.  That's usually a decent place for people watching and I may get something I like a little better.