Not exactly a storyboard

It is a part of a story, but this is one of a series of thumbnails I did for bigger paintings (to take to this level of finish - well, if I can call that finish) just to focus on framing and composition, how color and saturation direct your eye... trying to make things all cinematic-like. I'll post the final when I get it done.

It's kind of depressing when you find that the figures you're struggling with are those of your own species, but you can handle, say, cats and horses just fine. I need to make it out to life drawing next week (if only it weren't a half hour bus commute each way, plus a scenic walk of seven blocks through downtown Sacramento), so that the betrayal of my species goes no further.