monotonae: What I Drew Sunday – June 24th

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

What I Drew Sunday – June 24th - Top 3

I drew 12 pieces during Sunday’s 8-hour Disney Day session of What Shall I Draw Today?

Here are the top 3 liked ones:

#1 – Beauty and the Beast: suggestion by @eddysbrothersgf

Amongst three Beauty and the Beast suggestion, I chose the one without specific storytelling probably because it gave me the freedom to draw this scene based on the exchange in the 2017 live action version where Beast presents and gifts the library to Belle. I obviously am using the character designs from the 1991 animated version. An abbreviated version of the scene is featured in the live action version’s final trailer, and may explain it’s persistence in my mind.

I like how the newer film has the Prince/Beast be educated and literate. This 1) contrasts with Gaston and 2) gives him something to share with Belle.

The layout is the reverse of the wide shots seen in the film by having Belle closer to the camera/audience. The layout also is meant to evoke a typical panel from a comic book book or newspaper comic strip. Here, the characters fill most of the rectangle with background elements minimized and/or generalized.

#2 – Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable and Rufus against Dr. Drakken and Shego: suggestion by @akoymdf

Kim Possible (2002-2077) still has its fans. I wasn’t watching a lot of the Disney Channel during its original run, so the action is not based on anything direct from the series. I did find in an image search a poster with Kim and Ron dropping via parachutes. I took that idea substituting a ladder from an out of frame helicopter. The submarine gives Shego and Dr. Drakken something on which to stand. The ocean then by extension is a labor saving blank area that can be accentuated with distant islands and volcano.

The submarine is inspired by details of captain Nemo’s Nautilus from Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In my mind, it came from the same shipyard as the Nautilus built from plans stolen from Nemo.

#3 – Pooh Bear: suggestion by @sdogg52

Winnie the Pooh is as simple a sketch as I do on a collector card. Pre-Toy Story by nearly 30 years, the original shorts mixed in aspects of the toy-nature of most of the Hundred Acre Woods’ inhabitants. To wit, in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Pooh splits a seam during his stoutness exercise routine. “Oh, stuff and fluff” indeed. It’s difficult to do anything more charming than that.

And here are the rest.