New Drawings

 

After Thanksgiving was over, I think it was a good time to get into the holiday spirit, listening to old Christmas music, making the tree, and of course drew this.

Here's a random but fun drawing I made of a wild jungle boy laughing.

I sometimes use drafts for the poses. Also, I had to draw my own fist in order to make this sketch work. 

I'm sure in previous drawing posts you've seen this character before. This is Eduardo Gmidgets.

Above is some Wise Ol' Owl drawings, a character I enjoy drawing nowadays, and below is another character I enjoy drawing is Cauliflower.

I've been watching the first few episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force lately. It's fine but I always liked the distinctive designs of the three main characters. I would've imagined what would happen if this trio was aimed at a suitable audience. There would be more of that likeable action and mystery involved. 

I liked this Bugs Bunny drawing I made.

I was designing dogs lately and one of the dogs would've worked perfectly as a parody of 12 Angry Men called 12 Angry Dogs. I really liked the original 1957 movie, so this was fun and inventive to create.

I actually had to look into more of the characters, because it's funny that they don't have real names mentioned in the film.

Credits to Medium.

Here's more of my Donald Duck drawings in a vintage commercial art style. It's inspired by my favorite version of the character from a 1954 cartoon Donald's Diary. Also no hard feelings to Donald Duck's original actors but I seemingly like him in a more sophisticated voice.

Alright, this is the last drawing for now. Have nothing to say, just a guy. 

Donald's Crime (1945)

 

I still think the Jack King Donald Duck cartoons are watchable to this day, even though I don't watch a ton of short films back to back anymore, these always influenced me. An underrated film titled Donald's Crime (1945) has this one-minute scene of playing out as a criminal with very unique backgrounds and great action scenes. 

I love these colors, I also the enjoy walk cycles.

Reminds me of a "good" old hollywood movie when they use those medium close-up shots. You might expect another movie related post coming soon.

I could just imagine more slick and cooler music to go with these scenes instead of the usual whimsy style coming from Edward Plumb. I could imagine the chorus to Michael Jackson's Speed Demon in the background with these scenes. 

Love that priceless facial expression! 

We get some more interesting poses and still shots from this one scene. The layouts are absoutely incredible in this cartoon, it adds alot of personality to the environment.

It's crazy to me that this eighty year old cartoon is sorta what interests me the most in cinema and art in particular. 

The dark and mysterious but pleasent tone, a narrator voice, shocking expressions, and running from danger. That sounds like my type of vibe.

These shots below are impressive.

Donald's Crime is more than just your standard cartoon with silly shenanigans, this reminds me of the Tex Avery cartoons mixed with Disney's most darkest but coolest films like The Great Mouse Detective and The Headless Horseman from Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, it's filled with unexpected possibilities, velocity, and unlimited animation techniques like for example Donald reaching for the piggy bank, or the picture above of the light following him in stretchy cartoony movements. It's good alright. 

Wanna experience it yourself?

https://www.toontales.net/short/donalds-crime/

Donald's Diary/My Favorite Scene

This is a great cartoon, it's more adult-oriented which is nice. The style and color scheme is different and unique, and Donald is given a more sophisticated narration which I really like. I absolutely adore this short scene with Donald and his diary, it's very well-drawn. 

As of now, I'm not as huge of a fan of the main Disney characters like the Sensational Six, as much as I did back then. I'm moving on to more mature characters like the classic Disney movie and Pixar characters. The stories and personalities are much more deep and smart compared to 7 minute cartoons that consist mainly on repeated slapstick and plots.

This is probably the best design of Donald I ever seen. As an illustrator myself, this is kinda how I draw characters on a personal level. He feels more human and less basic. Heck, this whole cartoon is aesthetically pleasing. This is one of the more palatable Disney cartoons of the 50s. It's got itself a very amusing story, filled with breathtaking scenes and decent humor. 

BONUS 💥

Here's this excellent frame grab.

Autumn Drawings

 

Hey! You guys missed me? 

Anyways if you didn't notice, I took a long 4 day hiatus. I wanted to take a break, I was too busy drawing so I have a handful of art that I did in a course of a week. Enjoy!

When I'm using social media apps like Instagram, I don't focus too much on recent news, and issues unless if their highly important. I actually follow some cool pages that resemble the classic hollywood feel and other inspirational stuff like animation and musical sequences from movies.

I wanted to get silly and decided to draw Donald as Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) from Blue Skies (1946), the movie looks handsome, I definitely will add the movie onto my watch list. 

In the Artmania universe, there's gotta be a music group. This is one of the members. I actually remember drawing this cool chicken below a couple years ago. 

Here's more Donald Duck drawings. Inspired by my love for old fashioned magazine covers and hollywood portraits. 

A recent character to add to the mix. This is the first Asian character I ever made and to me that's an accomplishment, since I love to create characters from different race and cultures, I named her Amimi Yokana. She's a talented dancer.

A few more drawings.

I love drawing characters that resemble actors, these men above for instance. That reminds me, have you heard about the news lately about the A.I actress that's humiliating real talents in Hollywood? The Tily Norwood stuff? It's irritating as heck.

I have only two highlight hand-drawn sketches.

Lonesome Ghosts (1937)

 

It's October! 🎃 

Let's start this month off with a cartoon, Disney's Lonesome Ghosts (1937). It's a near perfect film that captures the spookiness and mysterious genre of films decently. 

There's some great backgrounds at the start. My guess is that Bill Herwig did some of the scenes because I researched into the original layouts and sketches and noticed his signature in one of the drawings like the haunted house.

This is the best way to start a cartoon in my opinion. We get to see what's inside and meet the zany and mischievous ghosts. 

I also loved how Mickey, Donald and Goofy looked back in the late 30s when they paired together. In my opinion this their best designs. I miss the simple oval eyes for Mickey and the white sailor hat for Donald. 

I love this few second scene of the trio walking in the snow. Backgrounds also are warm and calming. Animated by the legendary Milt Kahl!

Both Bob Wickersham and Izzie Klein animated my favorite moments of the film where Mickey tries to chase after a ghost and he dashes rapidly in drybrush frames. 

Alot of the shorts from this time period also remind me of The Three Stooges, and watching the other films, like Mickey's Service Station and Boat Builders, I can tell there's obvious tints of inspiration.

I also think the old Disney movies were at their best with camera angles and where to face the character in different circumstances and situations. Like with the multiplane camera, they knew how to make their films even their short subjects cinematic. 

Here's more great backgrounds, smart color scheme too.

I love this cartoon, I would highly recommend it now that Halloween is coming. Here's a few bonus treats for ya. 

Some ink publicity drawings. 

I would also like to credit the animators. 

Izzie Klein, Ed Love, Milt Kahl, Marvin Woodward, Rex Cox, Bob Wickersham, Gerry Geronimi, Dick Heumer, and Roy Williams.

Thanks to Mark Mayerson for the mosaics, feel free to experience his blog, he's done other mosaics and highly check those out.

https://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/search/label/Mosaics?m=0

It's beautifully remastered on Disney+, but you can also experience it on Toontales if you don't have the app. Your choice. 

https://www.toontales.net/short/lonesome-ghosts/