12th Grade School Doodles

Let's take a break on the oldies and focus on the newies.

First is the dancing sketches from a cartoon It's A Cat's Thing where it has inspiration from all sorts of classic cartoons I appreciate.

I would call them animation samples. Just like with music samples. These were inspired by Bugs's meltdown scenes in Tortoise Wins By A Hare. 

I made a bunch of doodles of Floppy. He's described as the old-fashioned trickster. Wouldn't say Bugs Bunny but more or so The Dodo from Porky In Wackyland with those dot eyes.

Assumingly, last autumn, I was experimenting more on what Dredd and Szac's personality would end up being. I sorta sketched them doing on-stage performances. 

Then I did another half where Dredd is portrayed as a medieval knight fighting for life hosted by Ox Fisher played as a Roman emperor.

I seen many versions of this done decently, but with Ox Fisher starring the role, it's like if Billy Gilbert came yelling aggressively to everyone in a gladiator arena. 

I still haven't thought about an actual name to give this clown besides something like Cluster but I don't know. I hate that name alot, apologies to anyone named Cluster, it just doesn't sound pleasing.

These are supposedly storyboards, but they don't have the squares to feel like their ordered correctly.

This is in fact in order and I managed to come up with my intro to the shorts I plan to make, I have a secret love for those smiley face heads, and the short is called Layin' Eggs. The main character, Henrietta Hen is Mr. Cockedee's wife. This has brief inspiration to Tex Avery and Clampett expressions. Y'know, what a classic cartoon should do.

Holy cow, I forgot I made this much duos even since I first drawn my first ones Dutcher and Ben Obvious.

I mean, I love Abbott And Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Sam and Ralph, and George and Junior so I was just all in it for the two pair cliche in cartoons. 

These are all scrapped ideas of a cat and kangaroo and what I think of just based on the drawings, is that the cat is friends with the kangaroo but wants to eat him. And here the cat is doing all of these Bugs Bunny Rod Scribner expressions.

This was me trying to copy several frames of the black cat in Kitty Kornered saying "Ah! I think I've got it!"

One of the few characters I managed to capture the Looney Tunes style is Ralph Cat. This was definitely made at the start of 12th grade, and just by looking at it, you can see a bunch of changes like the conservative stiff poses and him saying Bye-A like with my first few posts.

Kitty Kornered is one of the best cartoons of all time. When I was 16, I used to replay that beginning part where Porky kicks the cats out of his house and laughing every single time Porky says "four". It seriously gets me every time I hear it. And so does the designs of the characters, they are easy to draw. 

You see Wags Watson, Astro-Cat and Sly C from the Northern Alley Cats, basically the common household pets are all in one drawing. But I did manage to practice drawing those expressions from a Tex Avery cartoon Droopy's Double Trouble. 

Next I wanted to redesign a character I made back when I first designed Dredd and Szac, his name is Karl.

I always have time to revamp some of my characters to make them look original and simple as possible. Back then these guys looked abstract and crinkly as possible, so when I researched into more cartoon studios and Preston Blair I realized that, if you just make your characters look more detailed and full of form and life, people will find it much better to appreciate your work. 

I look into my old work from 2018-2019, and man I'm not happy. Good thing I have this blog so that everyone can freely appreciate how my artwork has improved nowadays.