Witch Hazel

So it's one week till halloween, I hope all of you are excited. I watched some cartoons related in the celebration, and in doing so I found a Chuck Jones character that I had forgotten about! Witch Hazel who was brilliantly voiced by June Foray (you may know her as Rocky from "Rock and Bullwinkle"), she is so hilarious so ridiculous in fact that i decided to draw her, and let me say she is no easy task. And even when I did have an idea of her construction and start drawing her in my own poses i was still off.



It was a frustrating reminder that i need to stick with drawing cartoons from the 40's and not the 60's when construction became a lot more complicated. But not all was lost in fact, the hands post from yesterday were drawings of her hands in different poses, so i did get something out of it.

Here are some of the expressions/poses that i referenced above, along with some that i should have drawn.
Here's the LINK to the actual video for some reason the embedding has been disabled.

Alright, day 2 of old school doodling. I'm starting to get better, the inconsistancies have been less obvious and I've been better understanding construction. I think the Basset Hound ref is a good example of my progress.
I've started noticing that i draw a little too big for the paper...

i have pictures of the build-up of both of these i'll make a post about it tomorrow. There are glaring problems with the original, espicially the one on the right, that left foot needed to be closer to the hand and the left had also needs to be larger than his right, the perspective isn't right. The one on the left i didn't do to bad, my only complaint is that the how his right foot bends was supposed to be more curved and organic as opposed the the more harsh and angular way that i have it drawn, I like angular and harsh but unfourtunatly that's not how they did it in the 30's and 40's.

Okay, these are my favorite, I think I mentioned in my last post about how much i perfer Chuck Jones over the other animators at the time, one of the reasons where his eyes. The way he did terrified and forlorn expressions are priceless to me, the one on the left is from Mouse Wreckers, which reminded me of one of my favorite cartoons "Feed the Kitty" and the dead-inside expression Marc Anthony made after thinking that his beloved kitty was baked into a cookie. He has saggy breasts for eyes, Also the way his muzzel just slides off his face and droops really helps his expression, his hunchback is another nice touch.

Daffy's

I swear... I'm going to get into John K's Cartoon College if it means I never leave the house again!! Upon hearing the news I immediately read his postings and started making drawings of Daffy from Duck Amuck. It was pretty late at night so it was the only one i got done.

I have a Tex Avery Donald who snuck (Duck A'snuck! GET IT?!) into the bottom-right. He knows he's not supposed to be in there.



Alright, building up from shapes was pretty easy and I got a little over confident with the picture below. Daffy's head is WAY too low, and it ruins the silhouette, I really need to double if not triple check all the proportions before I venture too far into the drawing.
This is the last Daffy I drew, I can't remember who did this one I know it's not Jones, I don't think it's Avery, so I'm guessing Clampett?? Either way, I made a little boo-boo with the location of the arms, had to move them down, luckily I drew them lightly and noticed before I got too far in unlike the previous Daffy.
After doing these i realized that I really like Chuck Jones overall look as opposed to the others, I think it's because his lines are a little harsher and more angular as opposed to a more organic look that Avery and Clampett.