Shere Khan Practice

Just to show what I've been working on before I dive back into my pile of projects.

For my next animation assignment I'm planning to do Shere Khan, and even though we're not quite done yet with our current animation (due tomorrow, ack!) my teacher had us practice drawing our chosen characters by throwing movie stills at us and having us translate the actor's pose into the character's pose.

It was hard to translate a human into a tiger, pose-wise (the claw pose, for instance, was actually the guy holding pistols) but it was fun anyway and I learned I need to figure out how his hips work better... I kept defaulting to my standard hip construction, which isn't the same.