What I Drew Tuesday, Oct 5 - Disney Parks

 Day No. 5

On this second work day, all three sketch were done after work hours. Frankly, I was glad not to have to draw a lot of characters and a lot of back ground details on these three.

#16, pp. 32_33 - Mirabel and Antonio / on Splash Mountain / Dole Whip: @harishas.art / @harishas.art / @madesalvo

Miracle and Antonio are from the upcoming Disney film, Encanto, and for this the trailers provided enough reference. Then I went and messed up their silhouettes by drawing their hair wet and matted down.

I forgot about the Dole Whip, and had to add it between the characters with the indication of Antonio’s hand.

2x hidden Mickeys.

#17, pp. 34-35 - Mary Poppins / in Disney California Adventure: @bowling_and_bowties91 / @herreriamon

I couldn’t help myself but add more characters having chosen to set May Poppins in the area outside of the Carthay Cricle Restaurant. Mary alone wouldn’t do. I cast Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby and newsboys.

2x hidden Mickeys.

#18, pp. 36-37 - Donald Duck / in the Animal Kingdom / joined by Meeko: @cr8ure / @ani8tor57 / @anek.arts001

I took advantage of the “Animal Kingdom” suggestion and kept the locale simple. Then I remembered the walking trees.

1x hidden Mickey. 1x hidden duck.

What I Drew Sunday, June 27th - Top 3

During last Sunday’s “What Shall I Draw Today?” an eight-hour session reserved for drawing other folks’ suggestions, I managed to create 8 sketches.
Here are the top 3 liked pieces from Sunday:

#1 - “The Family Circus” newspaper strip with Wanda, Vision, Billy and Tommy: suggestion by @nikkistar5394

These character are naturally from the Marvel Studios Disney-Plus series “WandaVision.” 

The Family Circus is the long running newspaper comic created by Bil Keane.

As a general note, what I did not realize when I had embarked on the day’s theme of “comics” is that I would very likely have to emulate the comic tone, humor and style of other artists. It’s a challenge that I enjoy, and in fact, it is a challenge that I did more often as I learned about art and popular artistic media such as newspaper comic strips. The standard layout of The Family Circus daily comic is to have the art bound in a circular frame with caption. One of the basic sources of humor for the comic is the world view of the family’s four kids shaped by the misunderstanding resulting from lack of experience.
 

WandaVision used the conceit of Wanda using her magic to structure her life as a television, family situation-comedy. Since part of that features all of the people around Wanda being unaware of being on a T.V. show, then maybe Billy and Tommy’s comments would be speculative about living on a once-a-week T.V. show. Is that irony?

Drawing the quartet sitting down watching television had never been a consideration. I gravitated to an outdoor scene. Having the twins playing with Avengers action figures was intentionally an additional infusion of “Marvel” that any ironic commentary. Which isn’t to say that the dolls that they’re holding aren’t intentionally representative of other Marvel/Disney-Plus content: The Falcon (a.k.a. Captain America) and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and The Black Widow movie. I was only after placing the Iron Man doll on the ground to fill the space, that it dawned on me that effectively his story was complete and the comic’s subtext was was about New stories versus the old. You’d think that I had planned it that way.


#2 - Wednesday Addams: suggestion by @alltookayleigh

As the first sketch comic of the day, I chose to emulate Charles Addams comic, The Addams Family. I struggled with the imagery of Wednesday with a huge axe, only in so far as how I could make that funny.

Time being short, I looked up movie quotes from the 1991 live-action movie featuring a young Christina Ricci playing Wednesday Addams. Is it Wednesday’s best line in the movie? It is certainly up there. It does require some context. One at least has to have knowledge of “Girl Scout Cookies.”

I changed the scene setup from what is depicted in the movie. In the movie, Wednesday and brother Pugsley are running a old-time lemonade stand and are approach by the Girl Scout who has boxes of Girl Scout cookies in hand. I stripped out the lemonade and Pugsley to the basic elements.

Arguably, the better worded caption could be, “Are your cookies made from real girl scouts?”

The raven and spider were added because I thought it needed more macabre elements.


#3 - Donald Duck meeting Howard the Duck: suggestion by @akoymdf

The meeting of two ducks, one from family-friendly Disney and the other the subversive opposite of that. Early Donald was quite the rascally-child who took short cuts whenever possible if he couldn’t first not opt out of doing a task in the first place. I thought that even that version would contrast greatly against a world-weary duck from another world/universe (I don’t really know which).

I also opted to contain the scene onto a smaller collector card. This actually meant that I was unwilling to invest in drawing a lot of supporting props and/or backgrounds. The conflict ended up having Howard complaint about something about Donald or Donald’s world. Enter Disneyland and its iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle. It may well be that I can’t go a whole WSIDT day with out drawing something about a Disney Park.

2x hidden Mickeys. (One is teeny tiny)

Here are the rest of the 5 drawn on Sunday:

The Rocketeer!

suggestion by @evanblasor

Calvin as Loki the trickster who loves chaos

 suggestion by @oliviamn14

Jessica Jones and Batman in a bar (because they are both moody detectives who are orphans)

suggestion by @ani8tor57

Snoopy as Krypto the Wonder Dog

 suggestion by @jonmpeterson

Static Shock

 suggestion by Abigail R.



All of these and more original piece of art will be for sale at my next comic convention showing, which, I guess, will be in 2022.

The next WSIDT session is happening in July 25th.

Thank you to everyone who pitched their fun drawing suggestions. Thank you for following my blog and/or Instagram (@Monstergram7) and/or Monster Enterprises Facebook page. Thank you for liking.

 

All: Black ink and color pencil.

“WandaVision Family Circus”: on Bristol Board, 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
“Wednesday”: on watercolor paper, 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
“Donald and Howard”: on Bristol Board, 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm  (3.50 in. x 2.50 in.)

What I Drew Sunday, July 26th - Top 3

I am thankful that several folks responded to my request for simple, fun sketch suggestions to inspire last Sunday’s session of “What Shall I Draw Today?” It was a welcomed break/recovery period after my 14-days of intense, Disney Parks sketches earlier this month.

Here are the top 3 liked pieces from Sunday:

#1 - Elsa and Killer Frost gossiping while eating snow cones: suggestion by @madesalvo with acknowledgment to @nikkistar5394

These two ladies have similar ice powers. Elsa from Disney’s Frozen franchise controls magic  with primarily ice and snow related manifestations. Killer Frost is one of DC Comics’ many freezing-powered characters, most of whom are villains. On the CW’s The Flash, Killer Frost, a.k.a. “Frost,” is a reformed villain in an overly simplified description.

Opting to go with the T.V. version, the suggestion was an otherwise straight forward description. Depicting “gossiping” in a single illustration isn’t the easiest thing. I went with a not too subtle commentary on Elsa’s ice powers.

#2 - Bolt and the Rescuers: suggestion by @lindsey_baker28

At first glance, this team up of characters seems to be an unexpected cross-over of unrelated Disney characters. They must bee somebody’s favorite characters. While not depicted in the final sketch, I thought the cute back story was that the group must be on a mission to save Penny - again. The twist? Bolt’s Penny is different than Bernard and Bianca’s Penny.

Rhino the hamster is in the mix because he fun and fits in the picture.

#3 - Donald Duck getting mad at texting and auto correct: suggestion by @spanky.bear

Donald has a famously short temper. Even so, being mad at a smart phone or smashing one deserves a little more for a gag drawing. A cartoon short would exploit an anthropomorphized phone, but that’s too much story for a sketch purposes. Along those lines, however, the phone could display a weird, auto-corrected message that irritated Donald’s last nerve.

With nothing coming to mind immediately, an attempt to have my own smart phone auto-correct something didn’t work. A quick-ish internet search resulted in a lot of things a bit too much with mature innuendo. On the other hand, it also resulted in potty humor.

Choosing the root text as the mundane, “I’m starving. What’s for dinner?” substitute “diarrhea” for “dinner” and that’s comedy.
 

Here are the rest of the 8 drawn on Sunday:

Cher (Clueless)
Suggestion by @breezie_draws

“Piglet enjoying his birthday”
Suggestion by Kim H.

Olivia de Havilland
Suggestion by Lara T.

Dug (Up!)

Suggestion by @alice.in.disneyland

Operetta (Monster High)

Suggestion by @paleo_nerd47

All of these and more original piece of art will be for sale at my next comic convention showing some time in 2021.

The next WSIDT session is scheduled for Sunday, August, 30th.

Thank you to everyone who pitched their fun drawing suggestions. Thank you for following my blog and/or Instagram (@Monstergram7) and/or Monster Enterprises Facebook page. Thank you for liking.

Leftover suggestions may yet inspire sketches is the next few weeks before the next WSIDT.


All: Black ink and color pencil.

“Elsa and Killer Frost” on Bristol Board. 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
“Bolt and the Rescuers” on Bristol Board. 17.78 cm  x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in)
“Donald Duck“ on Bristol Board. 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm  (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)

What I Drew for Disneyland's Birthday – Day 8

(front) Tiana and Penny.
(at left) Snow White, Jasmine John and Wendy.
(at right) Gaston, Michael and Boo.

3x hidden Mickeys.

Character “meet and greets,” photo opportunities and other such encounters seem like cornerstone elements to a Disney experience. If you hunt down pictures of the first characters to appear in Disneyland in 1955, you might think that they were an after thought. There’s a long story on the first Mickey and Minnie guests could meet in person, of which I don't have room to recount here.

Penny is from The Rescuers. John, Wendy and Michael are the Darling children form Peter Pan. They are dressed as I though English children would wear in the daytime - which is a combination of Christopher Robin’s clothes and those of the Bank’s children from Mary Poppins. Boo is from Monsters, Inc.

 

A Matterhorn mountain combo.

The Three Caballeros

whiz through on a bobsled run.

Goofy ascends the outside of the Mountain.

Matterhorn Bobsleds, Disneyland.

Meanwhile, resident, Harold the yeti is not amused by any of it.

 1x hidden Mickey.

 

Tarzan and Jane on a jungle cruise and
encounter fierce-looking hippopotamuses.
Baloo and Louie pop up to check out the commotion.
Jungle Cruise

2x hidden Mickeys. 

 

The suggestion box for July 9th is now closed.

You have now until 5:00pm EDT (2:00 PDT) July 9th, to pitch suggestions inspired by your favorite Disney Parks things and characters for consideration to be my last sketch of the day - here in the comments.

Above is a handy checklist of the things I’ve already sketched, which will to help you help me fill this autograph book with 51 sketches of 51 different beloved Disney Parks things.

That’s 28 done for 23 more.

What I Drew Sunday, January 23rd – Top 3

For the first WSIDT on 2020 we have a Disney trifecta in the top 3 liked pieces of the day. But the odds of that were pretty good with 8 out of 11 having some Disney or Pixar or Marvel or Star Wars thing featured.

#1 - Donald as Captain Picard: suggestion by @chrispy2143

As with most suggestions, I don’t know the reasons behind this Disney/ Star Trek mashup. These days, I don’t receive many Star Trek commission order, and much less in mashups. It’s a shame.

In reality, this is just a drawing of Donald in a Next Generation era Federation Captain’s uniform. To make it more Picard-like, I tried to feature baldness with a reflected glint off of his head. His pose too, needed to be iconic Picard. I chose that moment when the Captain orders navigation to “Engage.” 

Not satisfied, the captain needed a word balloon which naturally is “Make it so.” In my rush, I had confused the “Engage” gesture with “Make it so.” Then it quickly became, “Quack if so.”

As a second thought, as I’m now typing this, it would be amusing to see Captain Donald adjusting his uniform with a quick tug down, as the officers do when they stand up from sitting. It wouldn’t be a better drawing. It may be a cute 2-seconds of satire in animation. I dare somebody to MAKE THAT SO.

#2 - Merlin Training Ian Lightfoot: suggestion by @jorgem_0708

Statistically speaking, this one was a tie for first place with only 2 fewer total likes at the time of this writing. 

For the kids out there who aren’t yet familiar, Merlin is from Walt Disney’s animated tale of a young King Arthur, The Sword in the Stone. Merlin is, of course, a wizard. Ian is from Disney/Pixar’s yet to be released, Onward. 

Regardless of how the trailer hints to Ian’s relationship to magic, which isn’t much at all, this is a “what if” scenario. The books on the head is typical posture training included in etiquette montages a la The Princess Diaries. The knee raised high alludes to The Karate Kid, again with the training montage. A Yoda in a backpack callback just didn’t find its way in this drawing. Although Merlin has been shown to be able to change his size and shape, probably would not read well if he wasn’t at full size.

1x hidden Mickey.

#3 - The Mandalorian and Child Having a Tea Party at Disneyland: suggestion by @jesstothesmith & @akoymdf

Of several suggestions that featured The Mandalorian’s “Child” a.k.a. “Baby Yoda,” this one I thought that I could mashup two. One envisioned the pair having a tea party. Another cast Mandalorian taking the child to Disneyland.

Where can one enjoy a proper tea party in the famed theme park? Probably the Plaza Pavilion on Main Street. But Fantasyland in more iconic and more picturesque, and is had 2 attractions inspired by Alice in Wonderland. So the, tea party in impossibly - strike that - magically located in the courtyard.

For extra measure, Mad Hatter riding on the shoulders of March Hare have dropped in for tea time - as is you couldn’t tell that this was a drawing of a tea party.

The child gets a bit lost in the composition. The floating exclamation mark is an attempt to bring more focus on the little creature.

3x hidden Mickeys (not including a balloon, 2x Mickey ears hats or a logo on a Mickey ears hat).

1x Baby Oyster.

As I said above, there were 11 - posts, but I drew 12 pieces with one of the posts as a double of a suggestion. Further to confuse you, I drew not from 11 suggestions, but from 12 with the Mandalorain/ Disneyland pieces being a mashup of two related suggestions.

Here are the rest:

Tigger & Orange Bird
Suggestion by @elijones94

Belle...

... and Tiana (Disney Princesses) as cave-girls
Suggestion by @benmcdermott93

“Baby Yoda” in a Marvel Comics mashup
Suggestion by @squidney.ink

Mickey and Minnie celebrating the Chinese New Year - Year of the Mouse (rat).
Suggestion by @mkano

Scooby-Doo as Green Lantern
Suggestion  by @rod_j_sloan

Cassandra
 Suggestion by @harishas.art

Jon Kent/Superboy
Suggestion by @cyberknight6196

The Witcher (Henry Cavill)
Suggestion by @sdogg52

All of these pieces will be for sale at my table at WonderCon, Anaheim, CA in April.
Sorry, no, I have not yet set up an online store for these things.
Left-over suggestions may yet pop up as daily drawings and Instagram posts before the next WSIDT session next month, February 23.

Thank you for following my blog and/or Instagram and/or Monster Enterprises Facebook page. Thank you for liking. Of course, thank you to everyone who pitched their drawing suggestions.


All: black ink and color pencil.
“Captain Picard” on Bristol Board. 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm  (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)
“Merlin Trains Ian” and “Mando Tea Party” on paper. 17.78 cm x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)