Sketch n' Pose: AM Week 2

Our first assignment for AM was to get outside and draw. I spent the afternoon at the beach near my apartment and attempted to sketch out some guys playing volleyball. I quickly found that I was super rusty when it came to gesture drawing. After a few pages of sketches, we had to pick a favorite pose and try to recreate it using the "Stu" character. Here's the result!


I'm really excited to get a critique on these to see how I can push these to make the pose even stronger. Will be interesting to see what kind of suggestions I get and make the before and after crit comparison.

On a side note - there was an AVP pro volleyball event at the beach this weekend - and I noticed a huge difference in how those guys serve compared to the average guys in a pickup game I sketched.