Random Breakfast Doodles and Comps for Ref

I draw lots of design experiments and random doodles each morning in the hope I can build up a design reference palette for when I need a quick character designed.

I do caricatures of people I see in the news like this gal with the unique lips and then try to make variations that are more cartoony.

These below are inspired by Vera Ellen, a great dancer from classic Hollywood musicals.
I did them from memory the morning after I watched a movie that she starred in.
They don't quite look like her but I got some ideas about her facial structure that I can possibly use later.

 Here are a couple simplified librarian variations.

 Some simple UPA-ish doodles.

 Asian ladies.

 Random.

 A news reporter and a couple stylized fellows.

 A hair style I saw a woman on the news had.

 More UPA-ishes and another librarian.

I have a hard time simplifying women to the point of matching my very simple and abstracted 50s UPA style men.

 More Asians.

 Curly.

 Some boring sketches

 You know who...

 I like marsupials. How about you?

A woman of color.

 Random poses

Lots of the doodles don't amount to anything but the ones I think might be useful later I save and comp them into reference pages of similar design ideas and styles.

Toy Drawings and Bobbleheads

I was looking at some of my toys and sketched a stuffed Mickey Mouse doll.

 

Then I sketched him as a potential bobblehead. (upper left.)

From there my mind wandered and I started sketching other characters and what they might look like as bobbleheads.

 

 

I like the really old bobbleheads that had huge heads and small bodies and based my drawings on my memory of those.

 Googly Lenticular eyes are especially cool.

 

Dictator Bobble heads were very popular when I was growing up.

Here's our own as a bobblehead but he looks too cute in the drawings.

 

 

Here's a more accurate portrayal.

Here are some random non-bobblehead toy doodles.

 We used to have alarm clocks designed to scare us awake.

 

Variations on a Librarian

Now how did he get in here?