A SAMPLE COMEDY MODELING SESSION / 2 MODELS

Start with a few normal drawings then drastically elongate the legs without elongating the body. Experiment with multiple station points.
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Try the reverse. See what happens.

How 'bout a male model with disembodied legs and stiff, over-size BVDs? You simply don't draw the upper half. Do a number of sketches on a single page. Make it funny.

BTW: that's not my drawing above. 

The BVD model changes and emerges wearing two pairs of puffy pants so they get really thick.  The shirt, on the other hand, should be small and tight.  Glasses and fake nose if possible? 

The model should walk around in wide circles, presenting his back sometimes. On some excuse he should bend over and pick small things up. 

Another costume change. High stepping walking models would be nice for this exercize.

Some people are really good at this. 

I can think of some situational sketches using high leg walks. In one the girl does the funny walk into sc. and casually talks to her boyfriend, who's reading the paper. The doorbell rings and he gets up to answer it, doing an even broader funny walk of his own. 

Or...a lonely, alienated young man walks thru a crowd of extras (the same two models do all the crowd poses after the major poses are done) and everyone in the crowd does the same funny low-kick walks. He's the only one doing high kick steps...he's just out of sync with the society he lives in.  He thinks "If only I could meet a girl who was just like me." Well, he does meet her, and she's alienated from the crowd, too. She's a high kicker just like him, only...sadly...it doesn't work out. They can't abide by each other's hats. 

Well, it was just an idea.

Try some back shots. See if you can do some acting with the back. Make it funny. Be ignorant. See Jim Carey's back poses in the Elvis post I put up recently.

Try giving a female model the kind of proportions Freddie Moore used to like.

He liked thin women with slightly thick arms and short legs. If her skirt is thin use a fan to blow the skirt and hair.

Also try some low-rent, cheesy poses.

Make fun of classic art school posing. 

I might be going too far with this one...funny in-air running and jumping poses (short poses) using under-arm ropes to support the model. Hmmmm....Naw!...most ateliers aren't equiped for it.

If you do figure out a way to make this work, I recommend that the male model wear an old, thrift store suit. Suits wrinkle funny. Oh, and have a fan on all the time for the model's sake.

FIGURE DRAWING FOR ANIMATION CARTOONISTS

For the kind of model session that Theory Corner cartoonists might like, I'd I like to see a catwalk made of collapsible tables.

The model would walk on that.

If the model was a dancer, even an amateur dancer, that would be great. 

Of course the catwalk makes possible a dance that's also a walk. I see the individual poses as lasting no more than three or four minutes. I kinda like the idea of overlapping some of the drawings to get the effect you see above.

A catwalk makes it easier to do funny walks and eccentric dancing.

There's no end of funny walks.

Some walks and dances look better when more than one dancer does them. No problem. You just sketch in the clones after class.

Two models can become eight, as in this dance of Fosse's: The Rich Man's Frug."

Or one man becomes three. The choreography for a session like this could be improvised or planned. Me, I'd love to think of moves  for sidemen to do.

Poses involving animals like horses are no problem. You draw the model-driven rider poses then add the cartoony horses later. 

Or the cow.

If you had two models doing different walks at the same time you could combine the drawings in a sort of collage.

Remember to bring some tape.