A little morning exercise

by PaMdora on 29. May, 2009 in Drawings

cheezcurlpoz1.jpg Encouraged by the flurry of comments about favorite cheese curl poses (thanks you guys, I don’t even have to ask — you all just jump right in and tell me what you think!) I started refining some of them.

Between sketching and a real plan to work in fabric from, there are lots of little steps. Rayna said she liked this one.

cheezcurlpoz2.jpgBut Russ said snacks should go closer to the mouth, and rightly so!

cheezcurlpoz3.jpgThen I got a little toe-happy. I don’t usually draw finger or toe nails, preferring to keep things low maintenance.

That’s why some animators’ characters only have four or three fingers. Less to draw, especially in the old days when they had to hand-draw each cell.

But in the end, I never could get that pose to relate to my other cast of characters.

So moving onto to a pose inspired by Linda, I also decided to call them Cheez Curls, sounds cheesier, don’t you think?

Hey, maybe I should add a little mouse in there somewhere too. cheezcurlclass.jpg

15 Responses to “A little morning exercise”

  1. susan schrott 29. May, 2009 at 6:44 am #

    I WISH YOU COULD SEE ME SMILING AND LAUGHING AND ALSO FEELING GUILTY CAUSE I HAVEN’T GOTTEN ONTO MY YOGA MAT TODAY!
    SUSAN

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  2. Katy 29. May, 2009 at 7:17 am #

    I’m loving all of them!

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  3. Mary Ann Tipple 29. May, 2009 at 10:37 am #

    I would love a mouse! Maybe doing his own yoga pose? Next to the cheese curl bowl?

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  4. Kristin L 29. May, 2009 at 1:00 pm #

    I was going to say the mouse should be curly too, but I see Mary Ann beat me to it. :-)

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  5. PaMdora 29. May, 2009 at 1:16 pm #

    See, blogging with you all really does feed my work with good ideas!
    Thanks!

    And hey Mary Ann, you’ve got a new blog too. Looking forward to your posts!

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  6. Jacque 30. May, 2009 at 1:21 am #

    Love this….and love the idea of the yoga-mouse, too! It’s after 2:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep. Maybe some yoga breathing exercises would help!

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  7. PaMdora 30. May, 2009 at 6:14 am #

    Hi Jacque, Sometime now when I wake in the middle of the night, I stretch and and do some relaxation breathing and it does help me get back to sleep. Plus you can do it without turning the lights on, which I think helps keep you from waking too much to return to sleep.

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  8. Linda 30. May, 2009 at 7:54 pm #

    I’m not sure how I inspired what you came up with. Unless it is the twisting workings of my mind. I love this. The mouse doing yoga would look so cool.

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  9. PaMdora 30. May, 2009 at 9:26 pm #

    Twisted workings of the mind, haha Linda, that’s a good one!

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  10. Lisa Call 31. May, 2009 at 12:12 pm #

    Forget the mouse – put my daughter in there – she lives on these things.

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  11. PaMdora 31. May, 2009 at 12:15 pm #

    Lisa, I think she’s on the back row, isn’t that her, eating them from her toe?

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  12. Jamie Fingal 31. May, 2009 at 12:19 pm #

    looks like the perfect ad for Curves!

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  13. natalya 03. Jun, 2009 at 4:55 am #

    the cheese curls are delicious! wish i could twist like that…

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  14. Trisha 04. Jun, 2009 at 9:27 am #

    This idea makes me SMILE! And I love all of your cheez curl sketches– they are beautiful enough to be framed!

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  15. aly hennessey 02. Jul, 2009 at 3:44 pm #

    Oh Pamdora, how I adore you! Please give me some of your yoga wisdom…. You see, I pulled my back in yoga class, and am so blue. What would you, Pamdora do?

    OK, Im being cute, but seriously. You have such amazing yoga moves, yet never seem to hurt yourself…..

    cheers,
    Aly

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