These characters were drawn in 60 seconds. We started with a grid of 16 chambers on an 8.5 x 11 piece of copier paper that had a caption area at the bottom of each rectangle. We all used black Flair pens. First we passed around the pages, each of us writing something in the caption area like a personality type, or a proper name, or an occupation. We had just 15 seconds. When all the captions were filled, we passed the pages again, drawing a character based on the caption in 90 seconds and then passed the paper again. Each page features 16 characters drawn by 16 different classmates. It was an intense exercise that gave everyone 16 original characters to work with for later assignments.
