Storyboarding and sketching

So Ive recently finished doing the really rough storyboarding for my Junior Animation workshop animation, and Im pleased with the feedback I got. I was given some really helpful tips by my classmates, some ideas which got me really excited to start animating.


Recently Ive been drawing like crazy, but for some reason, I dont feel like Im making any progress. I think that I need to start changing up my subjects, I seem to keep coming back to the same drawings, which are really starting to bore me. I think this Wednesday when I have the day off from classes Ill probably find agood bench to sit at and do some good ol' fashioned sketches of the fine citizens of Philly. Id better go get some good sunglasses, dont want anyone to think Im staring at them and get punched in the eye.


Recently Ive been more and more interested in classic comic artists like John Buscema, Jack Kirby and John Romita. Im trying extremely hard to grasp a better understanding of how to keep away from creating such flat drawings when Im trying to draw characters like Spider-Man, and I figured Id start with the "basics."


I'm really trying to polish my basic skills, and look at the Loomis studies of perspective and figure drawing(again and again), and I can honestly say I havent been this frustrated in a while. I feel like some of these concepts are too complex for me to grasp, even when I know they are really meant to be understood at a more basic level in order to master them. I guess I'd better start learning to crawl before I walk...sigh.