What I Drew Friday, Oct 15 - Disney Parks

Day No. 15

Three of the four sketch done this day, are scenes from attractions already featured in this book’s pages: Haunted Mansion (no surprise), the Sword in the Stone Ceremony and the Mad Tea Party. Which means each offered an additional challenge as to not repeat myself. The “Mansion” is a storytelling attraction with plenty of staged scenes and a lot of characters and details. In that respect, the Mansion was easy.   

#43, pp. 86-87 - Haunted Mansion servants / America Sings / regretful: @caitlinfogartyart / @spanky.bear / Abigail R.

An option offeedr by syntax is that if the suggestion does not have a key verb like “riding,” “watching,” “eating,” etc., then I choose to put the characters right into the story of the attraction.

I think that I find this extinct attraction so beloved that I failed to really make the mansion servants regretful. Rather, they’re just whiny here.

I cast Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel as the displaced Mansion servants.

2x hidden Mickeys.

#44, pp. 88-89 - Sebulba and Young Anakin / in the Haunted Mansion: @eljcid / @alltookayleigh

In this third scene occurring in the famed Haunted Mansion, I forego the “Doom Buggy” ride vehicle and treat the attraction as a walk through the creepy house.

Sebulba’s dialog doesn’t allude to anything in particular. I wanted some response to the voice coming from the coffin and didn’t think he or Anakin would be eager to assist.

4x hidden Mickeys.

#45, pp. 90-91 - Darth Vader taking Luke and/or Leia with Stormtrooper bodyguards / pulling the sword out of the stone / wearing a cast member costume from the Enchanted Tiki Room: @akoymdf / Nicole P / @fletchthis

Finding images of the Cast-Member costume for “The Enchanted Tiki Room” was not easy, and what I did find I can’t say is correct.

There’s really only two stories to tell in a single panel comic setup, isn’t there? 1) Someone can’t pull the wort out of the stone/anvil. 2) Someone who can.

2x hidden Mickeys.

#46, pp. 92-93 - Meg with Hercules / getting on Teacups: Nicole P. / Abigail R.

What’s the story of this scene if “getting in” means that things are happening before the main action? Reluctance? Horror? Unbridled excitement? I ended up with prologue, triggering the reader’s imagination of what could go wrong given Hercules’ well known godlike strength.

2x hidden Mickeys.

What I Drew Sunday, May 26th – Top 3

It was a close race. From Sunday night, the Jedi came up from 3rd place. Meanwhile, Roxanne pulled ahead of both Jessica and Magoo for a spot in the top 3 from last Sunday’s WSIDT session:

#1 - Luke, Vader, & Yoda as the hitching hiking ghosts*: suggestion by @realmarkd

*In honor of Galaxy’s Edge opening soon and The Haunted Mansion’s 50th anniversary this summer.

“Hitchhiking force ghosts!” One could argue that the ghost line up at the end of Return of the Jedi might be appropriate. There you have 3 ghosts: Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. in doing so, you lose the black-clad Darth Vader. Not so iconic is his redeemed form of Anakin.

Old-man Luke got a little like Philip Seymour Hoffman in my caricature.

Rather than casting Yoda and the “prisoner” ghost, the Jedi master holds a ”space-ball” with the chain instead attached to a manacle around Vader’s ankle.

The last joke was swapping the once carpet bag with a “space-hat-box” with Darth Maul’s dismembered head, as a not-subtle allusion to the Mansion’s Hat-Box ghost.

#2 - Cleo and Figaro: suggestion by @brizee.draws

Drawing classic characters like this pair from Walt Disney’s animated feature, Pinocchio (1940), remains enjoyable. After all, characters such as these comprise the foundation of my interest in art and cartoons and then lead to my profession.

Cleo the goldfish, has that aspect that eludes my understanding, however. Which is “why does she tease Figaro so, when the kitten is quite likely to given in to his impulses and swallow the little thing?” It does come across as a charming interplay in the film. I hoped to capture that with their expressions.

#3 - Roxanne as Batgirl: suggestion by @rod_j_sloan

Roxanne from A Goofy Movie (1995) is introduced as Max’s high school crush, with Max, of course, being Goofy’s son.

This was a straight forward mashup concept. It did leave open my choice of Batgirl versions/costumes. I choose the c.2015 “Batgirl of Burnside” iteration, because of its youthful and practical appearance.

For storytelling, I added the text for “What Would Batman Do?” which I had once pitch as part of Cartoon Network’s marketing of Young Justice (2010). Taking a step back, I suppose it’s drawn as if she has sent the text. If that’s so, then to whom is she sending it that she would be smiling about it? Batman would have mapped out a full story before drawing the thing. And just maybe the icon stands for “Batgirl.”

One fan commented, that she resembles Gadget from Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. She kind of does sans Gadget’s mouse ears.

And the remaining 6 of the 9 drawn:

Mr. Magoo dressed as Thanos

Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads as a genie

Naruto and Aang (The Last Air Bender)

Stitch as Nightcrawler (X-Men)

Jessica Rabbit as a nurse

Sam Wilson (The Falcon) as Captain America

As I do, all 9 of these will go into my traveling batch of original art for sale. My next show will be Heroes Convention, Charlotte, NC in June.

The next WSIDT session is scheduled for June 23rd.

You can check out my Instagram feed for more drawings @monstergram7 and where you can pitch idea suggestions for the next WSIDT.


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All: black ink and color pencil.
“Hitchhiking Force Ghosts” on Bristol Board. 17.78 cm x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)
“Cleo and Figaro” on paper. 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
“Roxanne” on Bristol Board. 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)