Doolio's doodles

[Samszym]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SRsjCnzsI here's one video of Ron's method, he has a whole bunch of helpful drawing vids up so they might be nice to check out after Hampton! He's also got a figure drawing book of his own coming out, but it's yet to be published.

I think I better understand what you mean about stylization now, that does sound like a matter of practice and beating your brain into choosing the correct design instead of relying on defaults. Finding proportions that work well is hard, I think the prose Hynagogic described hit the nail on the head. What i meant with the big chest guy is you gotta be able to identify what the goal of the drawing is so you can make it more important and other things less, like how people who draw eyes big decided that it's important to have one eye's space between the eyes, so to compensate the eyes are closer to the side of the head than in real life. Or how the eyes cause eyebrows are pushed up so cartoon people wind up with smaller foreheads, since the range of expression the space between the eyes and brows gives you is more important than having a human-sized forehead.
Anyway, seems like you realize all that and you're on the journey of getting your hand to do what your brain knows. Keep rockin' on :D