Chuck Jones Paintings

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 Don't click off this if your a big Chuck Jones fan. This isn't going too hard.

 

I have no harsh feelings to say about Chuck Jones's work specifically Looney Tunes. I think alot of his cartoons are highly influential and funny to me. But in my taste, he isn't one of the greats as being a director. I do have problems with his cartoons.

For one thing, I cannot stand some of his Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons for some reason. They really did not hit as much as I used to like them back then. I think it was how the Coyote actually used his products. For some of the shorts, he feels like he's just using them for the sake of just looking at them. 

Whenever that happens my personal experience is that the Coyote is actually the stupid one himself that he forgot he's going for his meal, the roadrunner. Besides the roadrunner is just there, but he's the more smarter one and I actually kinda relate to his let-live, fast moving nature. 

I also had some problems with Pepe Le Pew's cartoons as well. I like Pepe's romantic personality and the fact that the cat, Penelope senses his awful smell but Pepe himself is hugging her so strongly that she can't escape is such a weird but clever concept. But I would say some of these can go a little too far in my taste, most of them are extremely repetitive and unwatchable.

And lastly I had no high interest in him in the 60s. His cartoons felt more conservative and stiff and his Tom and Jerry cartoons were just soft, sorta like the Pluto cartoons by Disney where it would have amusing moments but nothing too gag heavy or slapstick heavy.

That being said I don't dislike Chuck Jones, he is a talented animator but like with Robert McKimson, Art Davis, and especially Bob Clampett, it's safe to say that he's fine but not as fantastic as the others in my opinion.

But as an illustrator?

Count me in, he's definitely way more interesting with doing art than actual cartoons. 

This is an unpopular opinion, but his paintings he made after the classic looney tunes went to its final stage and onwards, are actually brilliant.

I have never seen Coyote dream of him actually catching the roadrunner. I wished that was what the Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons were actually like instead of the same plot of him catching the same thing over and over again. 

I feel more drawn to Sam and Ralph's cartoons since in those, there are cartoons where the introduction is different and they have more characters by sometimes talking to each other.

I'll admit it, both of these paintings are gorgeous.

Robin Hood Daffy is probably one of my favorite Chuck Jones cartoons in the later era. I admire this one. Daffy's expression here is too impeccable.

Imagine what Foghorn Leghorn would've been if Chuck Jones made him. Promise me, it would've been alot less funnier and more wiser. I like his design though.

This is by far my favorite painting from Chuck Jones. Daffy + Fantasia's Sorcerer Apprentice would've been a hilarious parody.

I really like this Pepe Le Pew painting. This feels more "aesthetic" than the others I showed you so far.

Of course Chuck Jones himself was going to consider painting his more iconic scenes in his cartoons especially with Rabbit Of Seville, and I love it. This is coming from one of my favorite all-time frames in a cartoon ever. 

A few more to look at