There’s nothing trivial about this question. I asked myself the same before starting them a while back. I would suggest printing these images out and having them up nearby for quick reference when you start out. Try to draw these characters for the first week or so, but as you stick to the one minute rule you’ll quickly find that you can’t get a strong pose along with all those details in that amount of time so you’ll come to find an acceptable shorthand for drawing them. This shorthand will be unique to you.

Think of the construction methods taught by Preston Blair in his book. My drawings ended up somewhat like those construction drawings with added details where necessary to get the idea down. Its important to realize that you aren’t trying to get a nice drawing out in one minute. The idea is to become comfortable drawing in a way that you can get an idea out of your head and onto paper quickly, but ledgible enough to come back to it later and draw it out nicely. In a sense you are making notes for yourself using drawings. Also you’ll gain confindence in your drawing abilities over time in doing this and your more detailed passes will start to come out faster eventually. This will give your detailed drawings a nice bit of energy to them.

I’ll try to post up some of my own quick sketches so you have an idea what you should expect from these exercises. I’ve fallen out of practice lately so it’ll be good for me to revisit these again too. Does that help answer your question?

I know this is probably a trivial question but, are you supposed to do the exercises using the characters the great Shamus Culhane provides in the model sheets or do we make them up based on the personalities he gives?

I know it’s probably subjective but I want to see how other people are doing it (and suprisingly I don’t know anyone who also reading and practicing this incredibly inspirational book in real life xD).

thanks.