I was drawing for a little extra practice of building characters from different shapes. The character was simple, but I was really trying to focus on using simple shapes but taking them in a way which is not traditionally human, such as thin, stretched out arms. I was also looking at simplifying the shapes of the hands so that they’re very basic. I think that the shapes were interesting and it wasn’t bad for a practice but there is definitely areas which need work and improvement.

When I was drawing the basic forms of the hands, it reminded me of the character of Bender from Futurama. I realized that he is composed entirely of simple, basic shapes which I had never thought about before. I drew out a quick sketch on paper to see and decided I would draw out another version on the computer to look at the shapes in more detail.