And now...
The final part. Part 3 of The Artmania Story.
As previously mentioned, I talked about a certain special someone that lead me into the world of animation and humor more than any other franchise.
Before then, I watched Looney Tunes, Spongebob, Yo Gabba Gabba, Adventure Time, Powerpuff Girls, etc.
And none of those reached that amount of greatness like with Tex Avery's MGM cartoons.
This man was a genius, a certified legend, a luminary individual who defined comedy and animation as we know it.
The first cartoon I watched was Screwball Squirrel (1944) and I was immediately speechless, I knew that these have had to be special and I need to watch every single one of these cartoons.
The gags were all creative and funny. But back then I didn't fully experienced what these might be like. I thought that they were going to be similar to his Warner Bros. Shorts.
Even then my second cartoon was Batty Baseball (1944) and the umpire saying "Thats the old stuff" more than 5 times kinda made me feel tiresome.
But honestly, did you really think I wanted to quit and not watch a single one of these cartoons? Heck no.
I tried to find the more iconic ones out there like Red Hot Riding Hood (1943).
And when I watched it, I laughed so hard.
I know where these were coming from. MGM really had more variety when it came to what the directors can come up with.
As I was still in school, all I could think about is how much I love the chaotic expressions from the Tex Avery cartoons and would copy them.
I was also drawn to Disney's Sleepy Hollow which influenced me by the time I was invested with Tex Avery's work.
I made this duo where a little kid tries to catch a worm sorta Tom and Jerry styled but back then, I didn't fully cared about Tom and Jerry and often called it "Tom and Jerry but better".
Yeah I was kinda of a jerk.
What I love alot about Tex Avery is that he loves his audience. He can break the 4th wall, make a character scream but not too annoyingly and makes the best character personalities in history.
I can name the cartoons that I think are absolute masterpieces.
Northwest Hounded Police, Symphony In Slang,
Wild And Woolfy, Slap Happy Lion, The Hick Chick, Rock-A-Bye Bear pretty much every single one of his MGM cartoons are all good.
That's how truly fantastic he is.
As for my characters, I did update and made new designs of some of them like with Dutcher and Ben Obvious. They look more identified than my previous designs.
I also created the first iconic human in the artmania series. Ox Fisher.
When I first designed him, he looked like this.
He was sorta that aggressive hot-tempered type. He had a big-bad wolf personality and he was strong and overly confident. That really fitted him perfectly.
But then, a month later, I discovered a Laurel and Hardy film, The Music Box (1932).
I was just watching this normally, I didn't really want to rate it, I just simply wanted to experience it.
But just 10 minutes in, there was a certain character in this film that made my mind go insane.
When he said his full name, it immediately caught me off guard. It reminded me of my Ox Fisher. The actor who played this aggressive hot-head was Billy Gilbert and he is an absolute legend.
He appeared in Three Stooges shorts as well.
Pardon My Scotch being my favorites.
I love when he says "MORE PIGS"
That is hilarious.
And that with that 2023 was over. It was definitely an interesting and likeable year to me. I became more mature with things and I discovered a bunch of classics.
Welcome 2024. And man this year was absolutely fantastic.
I discovered more things that got me interested and influenced my drawing skills.
For one thing, I became less of a hater and was more free with what I can explore out there in media.
In 2024, the stuff I loved the most were Classic Disney shorts, mostly because of how beautiful they were and how they were the masters of story-telling. I also loved the early Hanna Barbera cartoons. Stuff like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Top Cat and The Flintstones were just relaxing to watch.
I admired the Three Stooges and really liked the creativity and uniqueness of Fleischer Studios.
But there was one thing that was definitely a highlight to 2024 that made me a better artist.
《 THE PRESTON BLAIR ANIMATION BOOK! 》
Bit of a backstory, when I first saw this image, I was losing it. I thought I made an entire mistake on how I should draw cartoon characters.
Structures and shapes in drawing things weren't really my thing yet.
It was cool seeing some Tex Avery characters in here but I was still complaining about all this baby steps sorta thing with drawing classic characters.
I was able to finally give it a shot and it was as decent as ever. Of course you can see these models aren't perfectly well-drawn, I wasn't fully comfortable with most of the steps I had to follow.
It was definitely understandable why animators back in the 30s-50s used these. They used simple shapes in order to make it less wonky. I also had alot of fun making my characters rotate their heads in different directions.
But then, the big moment came.
On August 29th, I started to make a blog.
This started a new era in my life. I could finally share my experiences and my art to the public.
My blog has been one the best decisions I ever made, and it discusses about fun facts, characters, aesthetics and more.
Also this blog has a translate tool that you can only use on my web version so that everyone in the world can read my fantastic writing and info.
And now we reach to the end, for now at least.
What am I doing now?
Well you asked for it.
In the beginning, I talked about one of my duos, Dutcher and Ben Obvious, and so far they've been fantastic. I created some drawings that I made during my free-time during school.
Dutcher's personality explains my weaknesses in life. He has a shear hatred for square roots and decimals.
And as for Ben Obvious, he's how I am mostly in real life, when everything is sunshine and rainbows, he's easy-going and chill sometimes he wants to do something fun with his pal.
In conclusion, Artmania is basically my life, my universe, everything I love all in one product.
Hopefully you enjoyed all the 3 parts.
Here are the 2 other parts.
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