I'm about ready to call animal cruelty on some of the poses we put our characters in just to get a feel for how stuff looks. We find ourselves drawing just for the sake of drawing, and then sometimes we'll go to moronic lengths to try and turn them into something (Well I have...)

Poor sucker had to endure all the birds I killed with one stone.
-Profile check
-Hand practice
-Eye practice
-Retouching practice
-Coloring practice

And so I raise a glass to all the poor subjects that had to endure this pain.