Nature Doodles

I've had to do a fair amount of diagnostic drawings of the creatures which will appear in my animation to make sure I know how they look in different positions and from various angles. It's definitely worthwhile prep for animating because the more you draw something, the better you become at drawing it (usually anyway). It means that you know it inside out. Da Vinci is the most noted example of this sort of method because he went deeper and studied the anatomy of people and creatures in order to understand them more and therefore be able to do more detailed and realistic studies of them. The better you know something, the easier it becomes to replicate.
Here are some of my sketches: