I DREW THAT: Zazzle x D23 2026

 

A selection of items are available on Zazzle featuring the exclusive character art that I created for D23 now splashed across their 2026 everything; or perhaps they’re on the D23 site offered through Zazzle. The Print-On-Demand platform features Mickey, Miss Piggy, the Mad Hatter and The Sun Bonnets on shirts, drink ware and other items. I don’t know how long these have been available. 

I don’t know if other characters are waiting in the wings to be featured on merchandize. I also don’t know if these are D23 Gold Member Exclusive items. All I can say is order it while you can and keep an eye open for more in the future.

https://d23.com/shop/

D23 Character Collage Tote Bag

This large page with sold er straps features 8 pieces of my character art: the Mad Hatter, Dory, Daisy Duck, Lightning McQueen, Kermit the Frog, the Sun Bonnets, Pua and Cruella DeVil with the D23 logo in the center square. It appears to have the same design printed on the reverse.

Character Tee-Shirts 

Mickey Mouse, Miss Piggy, the Mad Hatter and the Sun Bonnets are available with character art printed on the fronts of shirts. Shirts are offered in a variety of colors.

The same selection of character art are available with the art printed on the backs and the D23 logo printed on the fronts on the upper-left chest.

Mickey 2-Sided Hoodie

This hoodie features Mickey Mouse printed on the back and the D23 logo on the front, upper-left chest. The hoodie is zippered in the front with hoodie drawstrings and 2 pockets.

Mickey Hat

The classic dad hat is available in a variety of colors. Is is contracted with 100% cotton bio-washed chino twill for a soft, worn feel.

Character Insulated Tumblers

Here are a selection of three characters: Mickey Mouse, Miss Piggy and the Mad Hatter. The tumblers stainless Steel construction holding 20 oz.

D23 Character Mugs

Mickey Mouse, Miss Piggy, the Mad Hatter and the Sun Bonnets are printed on two-sides of a coffee mug. The handle and inside of the mug are colored to compliment the art. The mugs are available in two sizes.

I DREW THAT- D23 Gold Member 2026 Branding

 

It’s a remarkable honor to have contributed this year to D23 look. D23, the official Disney fan club changes its branding look in subtle ways that still engages its fan community. The branding applies across most of the elements that reach the fans including membership cards, display banners, and not the least of which pins. I drew as many as 17 pieces of character art for the D23 group. We’ll see as the year progress which of them pop up and in what variety of uses.

 

A lot of the character choices in the mix give nods to significant anniversaries celebrated by the many characters, movies and theme park icons that Disney is famous for. 

 

Among the items in the Gold Member gift kit are a members card and certificate, a commemorative Mickey Mouse pin celebrating “Thru the Mirror” 1936 short, collectible magnet featuring Pluto, $25 event discount and D23 Disney Lorcana card.

This year, higher level membership offer additional premium gifts including a a few items featuring some of my art: a 10-piece pin set and a RSVLTS x Disney Shirt.

Here, I share 14 of the characters that I created for D23.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (No. 1)
Mickey Mouse (Thru the Mirror, 1936, 90yr)
Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961, 65yr)
Pluto the pup 

Daisy Duck
Pua (Moana, 2016, 10yr)
Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland, 1961, 65yr)
James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (Monsters, Inc., 2001, 25)

Dory (Finding Dory, 2016, 10yr)
Sun Bonnets (Country Bear Jamboree, 1971, 55yr)
Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog (The Great Muppet Caper, 1981, 45yr)

Lightning McQueen (Cars, 2006, 20yr)
Mickey Mouse (No.2) (Thru the Mirror, 1930, 90yr)

 The style that D23 had me apply to the characters is an extension of what I’ve been doing on my ongoing series of sticky note sketches. I describer it as something honoring 1930’s newspaper clip art or “Monopoly Man” art. It incorporates bold line work and clear silhouettes. It sometimes has rubber-hose arms and legs. It never fusses with making sure shapes are closed off to define spaces to drop in color.

 

What I Drew Saturday, Oct 16 - Disney Parks

Day No. 16

Here’s the finale of the series: the final four of the 50 Disney Parks themed sketches done in this Disneyland autograph book. For the last three sketches, I choose to double pull the character prompts, just to squeeze out the last bits of goodness amongst the suggestions.

#47, pp. 94-95 - Flynn and Rapunzel / in Mickey’s PhilharMagic / taking shots/drinking: @alltookayleigh / @yooo_gert / @the_kira_diaries

How fortunate that the “Be Our Guest” sequence is part of the “PhilharMagic” show and thus “drinking” isn’t entirely disconnected. Donald still chases the magic sorcerer’s hat.

3x hidden Mickeys.

#48, pp. 96-97 - SMRT-1 / Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit / helping paint the castle: @jayrodesign / @rod_j_sloan / Nicole P.

I don’t know if it reads well, but they’re standing on scaffolding. 

When selecting a part of Cinderella Castle on which to feature I at least wanted one of the cone shaped turret roofs because I thought that would communicate “castle.”  Beyond that, I thrusted that there would be enough wall area for the characters to paint with the pinkish, iridescent coating.

3x hidden Mickeys.

#49, pp. 98-99 - Orange Bird / Sora from Kingdom Hearts / at Festival of the Lion King: @fletchthis / @yooo_gert / @jessiemind

I chose a wide shot to convey the “staged show” idea. Without something or some one in the close up space, it lack the dynamics of depth, and maybe then lacks visual interest. It does expose my unwillingness to fill the scene with a lot more of the cast in this penultimate sketch of the series.

3x hidden Mickeys.

#50, pp. 100-101 - Mickey and Minnie / the Hitchhiking Ghosts / Magic Kingdom hub / sharing the Kitchen Sink sundae: Jeff S. / @realmarkd / Jeff S / Nicole P.

Oh boy! A party for the final sketch of the series! 

Since there are two different specialty “kitchen sink” designs, I thought to use them both and then there’d be enough sundaes for everybody. 

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are dressed in their 50th anniversary outfits.

The hub (a.k.a. the Plaza) is represented by in being the area in front of Cinderella Castle.

2x hidden Mickeys.

What I Drew Sunday, March 28th - Top 3

 Last Sunday’s session of drawing other folks’ suggestion went a bit slower than my usual What Shall I Draw Today? session. I produced 6 sketches over the eight hour period. At the start of the day, I had made the pronouncement that I might stop early if I reached 12 sketches in order to turn my attention to household chores. Well, those chores had to wait until the official end of WSIDT.

Here are the top 3 liked pieces from Sunday:

#1 - Steamboat Willy as a Jungle Cruise Skipper: suggestion by Mike C.

Story time- although the Disney short is famously the first to feature synchronized sound, it’s not much on dialogue. As such, it’s ambiguous as to which actor is the titular character. Is it Mickey? Is it Pete? Is it in fact the name of the steamboat itself?  I’ve not seen any documentation to definitively clarify the point. I opted to keep Pete as the captain/skipper.

For reasons that escape my armchair analysis, the Disney Parks’ Jungle Cruise attraction, seems to have popped up frequently among the WSIDT suggestions. I think more than “Pirates of the Caribbean” and more than the “Haunted Mansion.” As such, I wanted to draw a part of the attraction that I hadn’t previously, and decided to feature the African Bull elephant. I remember having drawn, the safari chased up a pole by a rhinoceros, piranhas in the water, the elephant bathing pool and Trader Sam. Another half dozen Jungle Cruise suggestions and I’ll have to tackle the back-side of water.

If I were to do a second take on this sketch suggestion, I might be moved to depict the whole steamboat in the rivers of the attraction.

6x hidden Mickeys.


#2 - Harley Quinn at a Roller Disco with Scooby-Doo: suggestion by @alltookayleigh

There’s no clear connection linking these two characters, so they must be two of somebody’s favorite characters.

Scooby-Doo must be one of the top non-Disney characters that I draw for WSIDT if you include mashups with Scooby and the gang. With every successive Scooby that I draw I feel that I’m getting better.

The reflected spots of lights on the floor didn’t remove as well as I had hoped. A second regret is that I should have added more spots to the back wall, even if the ones on the floor weren’t ideal.

Harley Quinn is based on the model from her animated series. A lot of times I default to original Batman the Animated Series version if not otherwise prompted. I felt like shining a suggested spotlight on the DC Universe series.

#3 - Tigger meets June from “Little Einsteins”: suggestion by @elijones94

I’m a bit outside of the demographics for the “Little Einsteins” television series. A minute with a YouTube video of the series informed me that June likes to dance, and that’s all I needed to know for a drawing.

I tweaked the way I drew June so that her facial features were more Disney-fied.

In pairing June with Tigger, I imagined that she could possibly be shorter than Christopher Robin- maybe not quite up to his chin. And I think Tigger is no taller than waist-high compared with C.R. So, maybe a standing Tigger would be up to June’s chin?

Anyways, Tigger’s dancing would just devolve into a form of bouncing. More and more I like emulating “The Family Circus” style trail of ribbon based dashed lines, even if it’s not associated with a character like Tigger.

1x hidden Mickey.


Here are the rest of the 3 drawn on Sunday:

Zuko and Suki on an adventure with Appa
Suggestion by @nikkistar5394

Venomized Huey, Dewey and Louie
Suggestion by @cyberknight6196

Beverly Sutphin (Serial Mom)
Suggestion by @mannysmyname

All of these are currently not for sale, as I continue to build up a stock of original art to sell at future, T.B.D. comic convention showings.

The next WSIDT session is happening in April 25th. This one will  be “Star Wars” themed. In stating that now, I wonder if half of the suggestions with be Mandalorian and/or “Baby Yoda” centric.

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 on Bristol Board.

“Steamboat Willie” & “Harley & Scooby”: 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
“Tigger and June”: 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm  (3.50 in. x 2.50 in.)

What I Drew Sunday, September 27th - Top 3

In the last-of-the-year session of “What Shall I Draw Today?” I offered a list of 21 not-yet-drawn suggestions previous pitched this year. Last year, I branded this kind of thing as a “Rewind Day.”  This year I didn’t brand it as such, allowing for folks to also make new suggestions. On the day, I pulled from the poll starting with the suggestion receiving the most votes and trying to work in order down the list.

Here are the top 3 liked pieces from Sunday:

#1 - Christopher Robin-Hood: original suggestion by @ch_arles7762

 

The fully worded suggestion was as follows, “Christopher Robin-hood. Pooh and the gang posing as the characters from the cartoon Robin Hood.” This was the Number 1 voted of 21. The mashed name itself is fun enough to attract the curious.

As I do with mashed up groups, I wrote a column of name of the Hundred Acre Wood characters and a column for the Sherwood Forest characters. Then I try to match them up. Most everyone who is familiar with the Robin Hood tales knows that he led and band of “merry men.” The animated Disney film was a bit short on named merry men however: 3- Little John, Friar Tuck, Alan A-Dale. In contrast Christopher Robin has a tight group of 7 friends in the 100AW named in the Disney song about Winnie the Pooh, and then don”t forget about Tigger. Sorry, Kanga gets left out, as does Owl. I cast Roo as young Skippy- not a merry-man but it works. I cast Rabbit as Prince John, which is possible because they’re all playing. Thankfully, the antagonist gives the others something against which to react. And then Piglet is a poor Sheriff and a porter Sir Hiss. So he is cast as Will Scarlet, a named merry man in many adaptations including the Errol Flynn classic movie.

No need to get overly complicated with perspective and depth, when working with the Pooh characters. Trees with branches to sit upon provide great opportunities to place characters off of the ground. Even Rabbit gets to stand on a rock.

In another world, perhaps Tigger would have been cast as Prince John and then he would use his own tail as a puppet version of Sir Hiss.


#2 - Jasmine, Belle, Ariel and Elsa as Doctors and Nurses: original suggestion by @lindsey_baker28

This suggestion was number 5 in vote counts. You never really know what people are going to react to most strongly. I think in this case, the difference between the suggestion and the final drawing is an ethereal something that you didn’t know you wanted until you see it.

The suggester would later comment that these five are her sister’s favorites, and the suggestion was made on her sister’s behalf who is an x-ray technician.

The composition is very stock photo like. I mused about giving them a patients to attend to. I was leaning towards Aladdin, creating a humorous scene suggesting that the former street rat just took “one jump” too many. Ah, but I thought that was the wrong tone. Likewise, I opted not to have Ariel fiddling with her stethoscope, a thing to her that might be an entire mystery.

I made Belle a doctor, believing that she’d have the better grades. The other three ladies are nurses. Jasmine and Elsa nearly gets to keep their assigned colors. With her trademark hair color and large mass of hair swooping over her forehead, Ariel is always a quick read, no matter her outfit or fish tail.


#3 - Sorcerer Mickey as a Jedi: suggestion by @akoymdf

This suggestion was number 2 in vote counts.

This mashup reads like a good fit. On the one hand, you have good-gut Mickey Mouse wearing a magician’s robes and sometimes a magician’s hat. On the other hand, you have the Jedi, the fabled space magicians of Star Wars.

Never underestimate my eagerness to take an idea and make it more complicated, especially if it involves Disney characters. Enter, then, Peg Leg Pete as a Sith Lord. You can tell it’s him be the peg leg. The layout is a common showdown composition with the antagonist in the foreground with his back to the audience. In perspective, the hero is towered over by the villain, and his expression is clearly read as bravery and determination.


I decided to draw of these on the larger format of 5 in. x 7 in. The multiple character suggestions always work better given the room. But as this was a day of second chances, I wanted to give each drawing the best chance to shine.

Here are the rest of the 5 drawn on Sunday:

The Black Widows! Natasha, Yelena, and Melina
Original suggestion by @chujo9

Young Minerva McGonagall with her witch hat
Original suggestion by @akoymdf

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 2021.

The next WSIDT session is happening in January 2021, as I take a break to turn my attentions to the end of the year holiday events. I still may pull from the voted upon list for inspiration for a fun drawing.

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 on Bristol Board.

“Christopher Robin-Hood” and “Medical Princesses” 17.78 cm  x 12.70 cm(7.00 in. x 5.00 in)
“Mickey Jedi” 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)

 

What I Drew for Disneyland's Birthday – Day 17

Cinderella in her glittering pumpkin coach
is just one of many sparkling floats of the famous
Main Street Electrical Parade, Disneyland.

2x hidden Mickeys.

Easter Eggs: Maurice (Beauty and the Beast) as the coach driver.

Elliot the dragon does not stand on his hind legs as a float.

As an amalgam sketch, this does not represent an accurate sequence of the parade’s floats.

 

A nighttime spectacular on the Rivers of America,
Fantasmic!, Disneyland.

3x hidden Mickeys.

Easter Eggs: as an amalgam sketch, this does not represent an accurate singular moment presented in the show.

 

Tinker Bell’s magic lights the evening’s fireworks
performance high in the sky above
Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disneyland.

8x hidden Mickeys.

Easter Egg: Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty standing on the castle.

 

For this last day of 17, I completed these last 3 of 51 sketches all in full color. Unlike with the sketches of the previous 16 days in which I attempted to interpret compositions directly from suggestions that I received on social media, these three are more accurately described as being “influenced” by those suggestions. Elements of these sketch are also influenced by what seemed to be conspicuous absences among those same suggestions.

Here is an alphabetical list of all 51 sketches:

You may now explore this blog to view all 51 sketches one day at a time at your leisure.

Good night, everyone!

What I Drew for Disneyland’s Birthday – Day 6

Albert and the mysterious music box.
Mystic Manor, Hong Kong Disneyland

2x hidden Mickeys.
Easter Eggs: Kida’s staff (The Emperor’s New Groove), Bust of Zeus (Hercules), model of Kuzcotopia (The Emperor’s New Groove); Fa Zou’s sword (Mulan).

 

Mickey and Minne at
Videopolis, Disneyland

2x hidden Mickeys.
Easter Eggs: Powerline (A Goofy Movie), Gosalyn and Honker (Darkwing Duck), Penny Proud (The Proud Family)

 

A mashup at the Haunted Mansion
featuring (front L-R) Miguel, Dante, mummy,
Mama Imelda, Hector, “ear cone” ghost, 2x lonesome ghosts.
 (back L-R) 2x Fa family ancestors,
“Hatbox” ghost, Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi.

2x hidden Mickeys.
Easter Egss: 2 ghosts from the short The Lonesome Ghosts.

 Miguel, Dante, Mama Imelda & Hector from Disney/Pixar’s Coco.

Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi as Force ghosts from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

The Fa Family ancestors from Mulan.

The mummy, “ear cone” ghost and the “Hatbox” ghost from the Haunted Mansion attraction.

The suggestion box is closed for July 7.

You have now until 5:00pm EDT (2:00 PDT) July 7th, 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 to help you help me avoid repeating things I've already drawn and included in the book.

What I Drew for Disneyland’s Birthday - Day 3

(L to R) Henry, Sammy, Melvin, Buff & Max
Country Bear Jamboree,
Magic Kingdom, WDW.

1x hidden Mickey

Mistake: Melvin’s and Max’s name plates are swapped.

 

Kids (“Tagalong” Sis, Toby and Skippy) conducting the Band,
Minnie the Bandleader,
Main Street, U.S.A., Disneyland

2x hidden Mickeys.

Easter Egg: the band lineup is inspired by the opening animation to The Mickey Mouse Club (1955).

 

R2D2 and C-3PO under Spaceship Earth,
Epcot, WDW.

1x hidden Mickey.

Easter eggs: Background characters include Lewis and Wilbur (Meet the Robinsons), the Mandalorian and child, and Wasabi, Honey-Lemon; Hiro, Baymax, GoGo and Fred (Big Hero 6).

 

Mickey, Main Street balloon vendor.
Disneyland

1x hidden Mickey.

Featuring: Minnie Mouse and her twin nieces, Milly and Melody.

 

Aladdin and friends learn to draw Mickey Mouse.
Animation Academy, The Magic of Disney Animation,
Disney-MGM Studios Park (Disney’s Hollywood Studios).

1x hidden Mickey.

Featuring also: Jasmine, Genie and the Sultan.

 

The suggestion box for July 4 is now closed.

You have until 5:00pm EDT (2:00 PDT) July 4th to pitch sketch suggestions inspired by you favorite Disney Parks things for consideration to be my last sketch of the day - here in the comments.

Happy Fourth of July!