Lalo

Practicing my monsterish character art.
been trying to come up with a character named Montefello (I grew up in Montebello... "bello" means beautiful, and "fello" means ugly)
my first try


my second try

future9er24

Just put em in a car and you're set

The second one looks right on for a Fink fellow

Blip

The second ones seems, to me, to be heading on the right track, less lines and more distortion.

The first one almost has a too forced look as if you started with a caricature idea
and then monsterized it.
Try starting with some simple ellispes for the head and jaw, then work out from there.
Make the drawing with the same relaxed style that you do for your CAR-toons.
I know there's the right shape inside your head, just let it easily flow out of your hand.

Here's a loose quickie one I just did on the tablet...

Autotooner

I like the 2nd one

Lalo

That is seriously the most difficult and most frustating thing!
having the idea in your head, and not being able to put it on paper.

Thanks Chuck for the pointers!
and thanks everyone for the kind words

burningman

yeah brutha I'm all about the second one and agree with Chuck!

Lalo

i think i gots it (imma try my hand at some more different styles)

Lalo

here's another. based off of Tiger7

GottaHaveIt

This one looks like that Doctor on Mother Jug's & Speed . nice stuff !

Blip

Those are flowing rather nicely--good work.

A suggestion to help your hand to "learn" the character is to
draw a profile set. Do a straight on view, 1/4, side profile and 3/4 views
to make sure it works at all different viewing angles.

Attached one of the many character profile doodles for
my Grabber Orange mascot guy, BOGO Fink....
(I was also working on facial emotions too.)

Evil_Capri

Good stuff Lalo!