Puffy Yogi- a drawing challenge

I like these funny off-model toys. I wonder how many folks could draw this and retain not just the proportions and construction, but the feel - the surface and physics of the thing.
Cartoonists and paticularly animators have a tendency to make everything out of the same material. Their lines describe either "cartoon-skin" like 40s cartoons, or "itchy lumpiness" like 70s cartoons, or a handful of other line qualities.
It might be fun to caricature the feel of this yogi ballon and see if you can capture it. The swollenness, the tight wrinkles at the seams, the squeezyness etc. I think I will give it a shot later, myself.
As an example, here is my caricature of puppets:

BTW:
Lsaac and I are experimening with putting my cartoon lessons on a separate blog:

http://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com/

There are still some bugs in the order of the lessons, but go check it out.

and don't forget to peek in at the new storyboard blog:

http://jkcartoonstories.blogspot.com/

Fred and Barney Bromance

fun things to look at

Slab's First Fist 10: Ground Game

As the Gracies know, 90% of all fights go to the ground, and that's exactly what happens with kids and fowl.

Slab leaps on Donald. The bastard attempts guard position.

It's a clumsy guard and he quickly recloses it with perfect technique.


Slab postures up.

Slab is ready for some old fashioned all-American ground and pound.

He swings his swollen pooberty fist frantically, but the blows are merely glancing thanks to Donald's defensive ground game.

To be continued...

NEW WAY TO READ THE STORIES

READ THEM IN ORDER HERE

In case you've come into the stories in the middle, or want to read them top to bottom in order, Isaac helped me make a site that automatically keeps them in order.
The magic of technology astounds me.

Slab's First Fist: 8 Battle Begins

Both combatants simultaneously deliver a punishing blow.
Slab is bruised but not out.

DB fires a kick to the head with furious webbed force.


Slab's hurt! He has a mouth full of crushed jawbone and teeth fragments!

This would finish any regular bully, but it just makes Slab mad!Oh! A perfect driving elbow to the solar plexus from the ring bastard!

Followed by a flying knee! This could be it, folks! Nobody should have to take this kind of punishment!
Donald is jumping up and down! He's taunting his opponent! Oh the humiliation!"
Slab looks to his corner! "WhattadoIdo now 'Ern??!"
Ernie advises: "Do that move we learned in Sunday School!"

Slab leaps into a bill-crunching Superman punch! "What a fight! What a fight!"
Donald is knocked to the matt. He's on his back! "Ground and pound 'im like Father McGinty showed ya, Slab!" shouts Ernie! "Pretend he's one o' those ATHEIST duck bastards!"

Slab dives on the dazed mallard.

To be continued...

Original Doodles Glitch:

There are still some doodles left and I added a new set.


READ ABOUT CARTOONS AND CHAINSAWS HERE

Can you do me a favor though? If you put one in the shopping basket, then change your mind, please take it out of the basket. Otherwise it says "This one is gone." Then other people think it is no longer available. Last night someone put every drawing in a shopping basket and made other people think there were no doodles left.

If you see any other glitches, let me know.

Thanks!

Your best friend

John