Body Built From Rounded Or Circular Forms (1 of 2)

Tonight I moved ahead to drawing some dogs using circular forms.  With this exercise, I tried drawing larger than what I was looking at in the book.  I got myself into a bit of trouble as I was trying to blow everything up.  I missed proportions and in some cases, made body parts a bit puffier than they were supposed to be.  Making accurate copies was harder than I thought it would be.  I'm posting two pages of work below, along with a scan of the lesson so that people can see where this is going (and so they won't wonder why I drew a cowering dog... I didn't make this up on my own).

I looked ahead in John K's lessons and can see that I skipped over his exercises in drawing toys.  I will give that a go once I wrap up this lesson (I'm about half way through the "bodies" lesson.    In looking ahead, I also noticed that he wants people to check the accuracy of their work, so I took a stab at it tonight with a couple of the dog drawings.  It's pretty obvious I messed up a lot of proportions, so at some point I may try to do these over.  I will most likely go back and check some of the previous work

I've also been shopping around for toys to sketch.  I mean, I have tons of superhero action figures, but no actual toys related to classic animation.  I will have to remedy this!!  More soon!!