Have you guys heard of the shape challenge?
As artists, we often fall back to drawing the same thing the same way every time. This exercise is meant to get you drawing in a different way. You take a fixed shape, and create a character within the confines of the shape. The cool people at CGCookie (https://www.deviantart.com/cgcookie) have been doing this for a while now. Why don't you download their shapes and try it out?
Post your results, or anything else you're working on below!