I was looking into a Silly Symphony cartoon recently called Elmer Elephant (1936) It's a really cute and well-told cartoon, but I seem to love alot of the designs the most.
They remind me of a certain artist I've been admiring lately. He seems to fit my drawing style really well. This kinda relates to James Swinnerton especially in his Near To Nature Babies illustrations.
Swinnerton is a truly magnificent and influential artist. He's made a ton of cute and relaxing paintings and characters throughout the 20th century. These were specifically made in the late 20s and they still look refreshing and beautiful a near hundred years later.
He had alot of passion with animals because I can't really tell what their actual species are. They just seem really interesting and unique to look at.
I love when cartoonists draw something quite appealing to viewers because it actually helps to be inspired or enjoyed by something your actually seeing.
He has a great sense of modeling with these type of characters. Disney and other studios must've easily been inspired by these drawings, and not only McCay and Herriman's drawings.
Like I was saying about Disney's Elmer Elephant, it uses alot of animals and has these cute and natural designs you rarely get to see in cartoons. Their anthropomorphic and wear clothes humans wear.
He was truly iconic and my favorite cartoonists.
I recently tried drawing some of Swinnerton's characters and giving off a Ward Kimball charm to them, the flappy shoes, the round heads. Kimball is among those animators I genuinely feel inspired.
Kimball's animation especially in the early 40s were one of Disney's best. There was something unique about his animation style that was different to the others. The character's lip syncing was really unique and freshly drawn. His movements felt cartoony and witty as well. It really catched me and it was kinda easy for me to imitate it.
Today I was exploring more comic artists and the one that stood out to me the most from what I saw was Benjamin Rabier, a french artist who rarely gets the treatment nowadays. Just look at his info.
I realized that this legendary man was really iconic and drawn to me as well. I do have to say his early starts weren't as great as what came later his comics like this one were kinda boring and uninteresting.
To me his illustrations were by far better and more appealing. Look at how gorgeous this illustration is! This is easily impeccable and worth appreciating.
I literally knew about this guy at first glance recently and loving him already. I rarely get to talk about people from other states but it's quite amusing for me to talk about them.
I've been trying to freely explore almost every old illustrated artist I see on the internet and while yes, almost all of them I looked at have fairly well drawn images, I can't say they all left an impact on me. Some of them have messy color prints on the strips or have the most hard to look at characters in all of comic publishing history. It's no surprise that these actually have potential and while they are rare and quite lost in terms of newspaper issuing, these are still timeless and worth the recommendation.
You can really tell that all Rabier wanted to do was make something simple yet engaged, no story, no words just art that speaks for itself.
It's kinda rare seeing artists back in the 20th century go on for a more cute aspect since every cartoonist was wanting the viewers to take on a more serious approach to art, which is amazing but you can't say no to appealing character designs like these.
Likewise, it's fair to give a small amount of necessary and straightforward images like this one to keep you invested.
You may want to know what this means, just by looking at what's selling or what's advertising, but I have no idea either. That's not what artists like Rabier are telling you. They are simply crafted and proud people and want to put everything on stuff for shear fun.
The color choices are also original and pleasing. The outlines are really well constructed and professionally drawn. Art was basically at it's golden age since people didn't know what to except out there whether it was something hilariously silly like Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry or a fancy fashioned magazine cover that'll keep you amused every week, the 20th century was full of creativity and unexpected reality.
Both Swinnerton and Rabier are artists that have amazing and fascinating details to one of their drawings that makes it more of an adventure rather than remaining it's political state which is what people seem to like nowadays.
It's a good collection and if you wanna experience more 20th century madness, then check out what I have to say about J.C Leyendecker and Winsor McCay and more on James Swinnerton.
It won't take you too long to find out about them on my blog. So stay tuned because tomorrow I'll be on another journey to exploring more artists and gems from the past.
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