What I Drew for Disneyland's Birthday – Day 11

Goofy as the tour guide on The Great Movie Ride.
Fun is fun, but too much is enough apparently.

(CW from top left) Xenomorph (Alien), Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz), Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians), Robin Hood (Robin Hood, 1973), Alameda Slim (Home of the Range), Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Goofy.

3x hidden Mickeys.

 

Alice may not be the only one who gets lost.
Alice’s Curious Labyrinth, Disneyland Paris.

(L-R) “Skunk,” “Foxy,”  Alice, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Belle, Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Launchpad McQuack

2x hidden Mickeys, 1x hidden Oswald.

 

Lilo and Stitch with Pleakly rocket on and around Space Mountain.
Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World.

Also, Darth Vader leads Imperial stormtroopers in pursuit.

2x hidden Mickeys.

 

Russell, Carl and Dug enjoy decadent, air-conditioned entertainment.
 Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, Disneyland.

Also Orange Bird has a guest “sit-trus” on the musical session.

Of course the parrot quartet take center stage (L-R) José, Michael, Fritz and Pierre)

3x hidden Mickeys.

The suggestion box for July 12th is now closed.

You have now until 5:00pm EDT (2:00 PDT) July 12th, 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 36 things I’ve already sketched, which will to help you to help me fill this autograph book with 51 sketches of 51 different beloved Disney Parks things.

15 more pages to go.

What I Drew for Disneyland’s Birthday – Day 5

it’s a small world
Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland,
Disneyland Paris & Hong Kong Disneyland

4x hidden Mickeys.
Easter Egg: Mary Blair figure floating by balloons.

 

Star costumed as Scarlet Witch,
Marco costumed as Quicksilver enjoying the special
seasonal event, Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.

Star and Marco are from Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are Marvel Comics superheroes.

3x hidden Mickeys.

 

Chaos among the Pirates of the Caribbean.
(L-R) Lilo, Capt. Redd, Capt. Stitch,
Capt. Hook, Mr. Smee & Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland,
Disneyland Paris & Shanghai Disneyland

On the shore, the elegant Captain Hook crosses steel with Captain Jack Sparrow with hapless, looting Mr. Smee is caught betwixt.
Meanwhile in back, Captain Redd has an encounter with Lilo and the newly self-titled Pirate-Captain Stitch.

2x hidden Mickeys. 1x Mickey by design. 1x mouse ears.

 

The suggestion box is closed for July 6.

You have now until 5:00pm EDT (2:00pm PDT) July 6 to pitch sketch suggestions inspired by your favorite Disney Parks things and characters for consideration to be my last sketch of the day - Here in comments.

 Looking to avoid repeats and fill the book with 51 different themed sketches, here above is a check list of things already done for your assistance.

What I Drew Sunday, February 23rd - Top 3

The activity that forced me to reschedule the Disney themed WSIDT from Sunday to Saturday ended up delaying posting these top 3 results a couple of days plus one more because I was just too tired to post this Tuesday.

Drum roll please. Here are What Shall I Draw Today’s top three liked pieces:

#1 - Waddles on a Pirate Ship (suggestion by @snowspuppet)

Waddles is Mabel’s pet pig in the animated television series, “Gravity Falls.” He lands squarely in a blind spot of my Disney fanship: Disney Channel and Disney XD. I hope that a couple of short YouTube short caught me up enough to depict the fellow properly. 

Avoiding dressing Waddles in a pirate captain’s uniform; sought to place him on a ship or at least imply the ship. Other considerations passed up were “Waddles next to a cannon,” “Waddles next to cannon balls,” and “Waddles at a sailing ship’s steering wheel.” 

In the end, the extreme low camera angle would allow the inclusion on a Jolly Roger pirate flag. The perspective is faked but communicates the scene. 

#2 - Lumpy the Heffalump and Roo as Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse (suggestion by @akoymdf)

I had read the first part of the suggestion and had drawn Lumpy alone. After posting that, I caught the whole suggestion and proceeded to work on this on a large scale (5” x 7”). Additionally, Lumpy, like Waddles, was a character that I had to rely on YouTube to gain more familiarity before tackling the drawing.

A couple of iconic Dumbo & Timothy set ups would prove difficult to replicate due to the differences in relative character size proportions. Roo is too big to sit in a hat. And he’s too big for him to lead Lumpy by his tail and have it be as cute as as a tiny mouse leading a baby elephant.  

It then became a circus themed scene, imagining the declaration, “Ladies and gentlemen...!”

I don’t know if it’s obvious but I deal with the mottling of quick color pencil sketch work by avoiding approximating flat color and rendering things with shadows and highlights. It’s funny how it’s easier for me to use a rendering style that results in a richer appearance. 

#3- Mer-Stitch (suggestion by @playrunreadcat)

A.k.a. Stitch as a mermaid/man/alien. I thought that there was no reason not to draw his antennae’s and 4-armed alien form. I also thought that a little bit of story always helps- add seahorse. 

Do you think mer-stitches eat seahorses?

Here are the rest:

Thumper and Meeko have Tea.

Princess Marisa and Prince Marzel
from Elena of Avalor

Zazu (The Lion King) and Iago (Aladdin)

Knowsmore (Wreck-It Ralph 2) and/vs Prof. Ludwig von Drake

Doorknob (Alice in Wonderland)

Tiana (The Princess and the Frog)

Queen Elsa (Frozen 2)

Teen Kristoff (Frozen)

Lumpy the Heffalump (Pooh’s Heffalump Movie)

All 12 if these original pieces of art will be for sale at my WonderCon, Anaheim appearance in March.

Please check out my Instagram feed for more drawings: @monstergram7

Thank you for playing, liking and following.

The next WSIDT is scheduled right before WonderCon.

All: black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.

“Waddles” -  6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

“Roo & Lumpy” - 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)

“Mer-Stitch” - 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

What I Drew Sunday, January 27th - Top 3

Let’s cut to the chase.

I drew 12 pieces on last Sunday’s session of What Shall I Draw Today? Here are the top 3 liked pieces:

#1 - Stitch as Mickey the Sorcerer’s Apprentice (suggestion by Kevin Sherwood)

I call this “The Sorcerer’s Appren-Stitch.” The suggestion additionally requested for Stitch to be commanding the bucket brigade. If you know the segment from Walt Disney’s Fantasia, then that can only involve the magically animated army of brooms. Here, three bucket-carrying brooms stand-in for an army. 

Stitch takes on Mickey Mouse’s costume including the iconic pointed hat borrowed from Yensid, the Sorcerer. It felt right to have Stitch climb up to the top of one of the brooms. However, what may not be a clear is the detail of having one of his 4 arms emerge from his robe to grasp the top of the broom, freeing his top two arms to gesticulate like an orchestra conductor.

#2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp at Disneyland (suggestion by @fletchthis)

Both the designs for the tiny heroes and the famed theme park are 1960s era. I think it’s more fun to play with those nostalgic nods. For the characters, that usually means the costumes are simpler to draw, than, for comparison, their modern live-action film versions. 

The Tomorrowland setting clicked for two size-referencing reasons. The first is the use of “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” the theme for the old Disneyland attraction “Carousel of Progress” by the Sherman brothers. The second is the area’s tallest icon: the TWA rocket. 

The scene behind the characters channels some of the John Hench concept paintings of the land without being exactly derivative. Possibly the perspective could have been worked out better. I traded off weird, but more accurate fish-eye distortion for clarity.

#3 - Mulan (suggestion by @chiemi_art)

By a mere 6 likes, this piece places in the top three according to the tally of the first 30-hours. As time goes on, its possible that number 4, “The X-Smurfs,” may yet surpass this on likes counts.

To draw a different Mulan than what I draw at work, I looked this up on the internet, one of her costumes from the sequel. The distinction is subtle since it’s an amalgamation of two of her costumes of the original animated feature: 1) the green color palette of her “village” costume used primarily for dolls and other products; and 2) the silhouette of her blue, third act, Forbidden City costume.

There’s not much exemplary regarding story or pose, I don’t think. I probably underestimate the number of Mulan fans out there.

Here are the rest:

War Machine
(style inspired by Teen Titans GO!)

Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel

Princess Anna as an Indigo Lanterm

“X-Smurfs” a.k.a. The Smurfs as the X-Men

Gruffi Gummi

Gruffi Gummi

Queen Atlanna

Captain Marvel and Shazam!

Spider-Noir returning the Declaration of Independence

All 12 of these sketches are going into the batch of original art for sale at my table at my next comic convention, WonderCon, Anaheim.

Please check out my Instagram feed for more drawings and the next WSIDT: @monstergram7


THANK YOU for playing, liking and following.


All art black ink and color pencil.
“The Sorcerer’s Appren-Stitch” - paper, 17.78 cm x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)
Ant-Man and the Wasp - paper, 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
Mulan - Bristol Board,  6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)

What I Dew Saturday and Sunday – July 28th & 29th - Top 3

It’s a Disney trifecta for the top 3 liked pieces of what I drew in the weekend’s experiment of drawing in two 4-hour sessions.

Here they are:

#1 – Peter Pan and the Lost Boys as a Boy Band: suggestion by @michaelrmullin 

There’s a tongue in cheek aspect in this idea that you might expect it to have come to life on Disney’s House of Mouse cartoon series (2001-2003). 

Now, with Peter and the boys numbering 7 members, they don’t match up with any specific real life group that I know. But then, other than making Peter the rightful lead, I wouldn’t have been able to match up Lost Boy to any boy-band boy by personality any ways. 

I had a thought to take them all out of their Neverland costumes and put them into some 90’s style or some hybrid versions. But the Neverland costumes are part of the gag, right?

I haven’t seen Peter Pan for a while, but making Skunk a bit out of step with the others seemed right to me.

#2 – Mary Poppins and Wendy Darling: suggestion by @elijones94 

This scene came as a result of an “Oh, that’s right” moment upon realizing that both had sat or stood on a cloud. Wendy would still find it rather amazing. Mary would insist that Wendy wear a coat.

Although I had based the London skyline on an Peter Ellenshaw matte painting for Mary Poppins, in this fast-as-I-can sketch it may not have come together as well as it otherwise could. Maybe it needs some evening smoke trails from chimneys?

#3 – Stitch Running: suggestion by @assortedvariety 

The full suggestion requested that he’d be in a half-marathon. I hope that I focused on the important part, opting not to draw a “half marathon” banner or other runners for that matter.

Of course, Stitch, a.k.a. Experiment 626, is wearing his own number. Then I supposed that he needed a jersey on which to pin that number.

This was also the third drawing created over the 2-day split session where I drew sweating characters. I blame the current California heat wave.

Back to Stitch – There must by some special finishing medal at the end of this run to motivate him to enter and much less finish a marathon of any length.

Here are the rest of the 13.

Sharon Spitz (Braceface)

Snagglepuss (Yo Yogi)

Lucina (Fire Emblem)

Felix

Naomi (The Expanse)

Mera (Aquaman)

Bugs Bunny vs. Rapid Rabbit
(Warner Bros.)

Remus Lupin, Nymphoadora & Teddy
(The Wizarding World of Harry Potter)

Rich (Be More Chill)

TippyBlue (Tokyo DisneySEA)

All of these are going into the collection of original art for sale that I carry to comic book convention - the next of which should be Long Beach in the fall.

Please check out my Instagram feed for these and more @monstergram7.

Left over suggestions my yet be drawn in the next few weeks.

The next WSIDT session is scheduled August 26.


All art - Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board. 
Peter and the Lost Boys - 17.78 cm x 12.70 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.).
Mary & Wendy - 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.).
Stitch - 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).