Sci Fi Goofy

Recent digital painting I did of Goofy in space.

Sing Sweet Nightingale - Disney Challenge #4

Number four of the Disney Song Challenge! 

So, when I looked up reference for Cinderella I stumbled upon an article that said Carly Rae Jepsen, the singer of Call Me Maybe, has been playing Cinderella in the Broadway musical. I know that big names help bring in the crowds, and the crowds are what keep Broadway going, but it always saddens me a bit when stage trained actors/singers are passed up for the sake of big names.. Not that Carly Rae Jepsen is bad, but she's not Laura Osnes (the last actress to play Cinderella)

In other news I found out that Anastasia the musical is still going to happen! If you haven't seen the 1997 film that it's going to be based on, I highly recommend it!

Anyway, back to Disney. Cinderella was released in 1950, this was shortly after World War II had ended. During the WWII Walt Disney had been creating propaganda for the the American war effort and had not created a full length movie since 1942. To keep costs down in the animation department they used live references for about 90% of the film.

Pictured below is Helene Stanley, the live action model for Cinderella, as well as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Anita in 101 Dalmatians.

©Disney

I always think it's fun to see behind the scenes pictures and footage from movies.

The next Disney challenge is Best of Friends from The Fox and the Hound. If you decide to do the Disney Song Challenge along with me, let me know! I'd love to follow along with your work.

100 Disney Song Challenge

  Years ago I came across a challenge called 75 Disney Song Theme Challenge on deviantArt where you create a drawing based on each of the Disney songs in the list. I got through all of two songs before starting college and having all sorts of other projects to do. Today I was thinking about what to draw and remembered this challenge from long ago. I have decided to try to do it again! I may only get another two done... but at least I'll have fun doing it.

One of the original drawings I did for the challenge. I created it with a mouse because I did not yet have a tablet

  I have changed up the challenge a bit. It is now 100 songs, most of which are from the original challenge, but I've added quite a few and taken out some that I wasn't interested in. If you would like to join in, you are more than welcome to! If you would like to see the original challenge the link is here. 

1. Painting the Roses Red - Alice in Wonderland
2. Great Spirits - Brother Bear
3. A Star is Born - Hercules
4. Sing, Sweet Nightingale - Cinderella
5. Best of Friends - The Fox and the Hound
6. Pink Elephants on Parade - Dumbo
7. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Mary Poppins
8. Do You Want to Build a Snowman – Frozen 
9. I've Got No Strings - Pinocchio
10. I'm Wishing/One Song - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11. All in the Golden Afternoon - Alice in Wonderland
12. Oo Da Lally – Robin Hood 
13. Mother Knows Best – Rapunzel 
14. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride - Lilo and Stitch
15. The Unbirthday Song - Alice in Wonderland
16. Strangers Like Me- Tarzan
17. Zero to Hero - Hercules
18. Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat – Aristocats
19. Little Wooden Head – Pinocchio 
20. Bella Notte - Lady and the Tramp
21. Humphrey Hop – In the Bag 
22. Be Prepared - The Lion King
23. That's the Life for Me – James and the Giant Peach
24. Why Should I Worry - Oliver And Company
25. For the First Time in Forever – Frozen 
26. Poor Unfortunate Souls- The Little Mermaid
27. Whistle While You Work - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
28. After Today – A Goofy Movie 
29. So This Is Love- Cinderella
30. Arabian Nights- Aladdin
31. He Mele No Lilo – Lilo And Stitch 
32. I Wonder- Sleeping Beauty
33. Sally's Song - Nightmare Before Christmas 
34. The Second Star To The Right - Peter Pan
35. Out There- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
36. Rumbly in My Tumbly Song – Winnie the Pooh 
37. Just Around the Riverbend- Pocahontas
38. The Sorcerer's Apprentice – Fantasia 
39. I'll Make A Man Out Of You – Mulan
40. Goodbye So Soon – The Great Mouse Detective 
41. One Jump Ahead- Aladdin
42. Something There- Beauty And The Beast
43. Friend Like Me- Aladdin
44. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! - Peter Pan
45. Go the Distance - Hercules
46. I Wan'na Be Like You - The Jungle Book
47. Love Goes On – Robin Hood 
48. I Wont Say (I'm in Love) – Hercules
49. Sugar Rush – Wreck-It-Ralph 
50. I Just Cant Wait to Be King- The Lion King
51. Never Smile at a Crocodile – Peter Pan 
52. The Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book
53. Hakuna Matata- The Lion King
54. Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee – Pinocchio 
55. A Whole New World- Aladdin
56. Someday My Prince Will Come- Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
57. Beauty and the Beast - Beauty And The Beast
58. Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me) – Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride 
59. Goodbye May Seem Forever - Fox And The Hound
60. 121 – A Goofy Movie
61. Baby Mine – Dumbo
62. R-E-S-C-U-E – The Rescuers
63. Almost There - Princess and the Frog
64. Long Ago - Hercules
65. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes- Cinderella
66. When We're Human – Princess and the Frog 
67. Circle of Life - The Lion King
68. Perfect Isn't Easy – Oliver and Company 
69. Mine, Mine, Mine – Pocahontas 
70. God Help The Outcasts - Hunch Back of Notredame
71. That's How You Know- Enchanted
72. Hellfire - Hunch Back of Notre Dame
73. I See the Light – Rapunzel 
74. Little April Shower- Bambi
75. When You Wish Upon a Star - Pinocchio
76. True Love's Kiss – Enchanted
77. Lester's Possum Park – A Goofy Movie 
78. Under the Sea - The Little Mermaid
79. Reflection - Mulan
80. When Will My Life Begin – Rapunzel
81. Let It Go – Frozen
82. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo- Cinderella
83. Les Poissons - The Little Mermaid
84. The Hula Song – The Lion King
85. Part of Your World- The Little Mermaid
86. Grim Grinning Ghosts – Haunted Mansion Ride
87. You'll Be in My Heart - Tarzan
88. Tomorrow Is Another Day- Rescuers
89. Love Is a Song - Bambi
90. Can You Feel the Love Tonight? - The Lion King.
91. He's a Tramp – Lady and the Tramp 
92. Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians
93. Be Our Guest - Beauty And The Beast
94. How Do You Do – Splash Mountain Ride 
95. Once Upon a Dream- Sleeping Beauty
96. Someone's Waiting for You - Rescuers
97. Kiss the Girl- The Little Mermaid
98. Dig a Little Deeper – Princess and the Frog 
99. Colors of the Wind - Pocahontas
100. Who Will Rescue Me? - Rescuers

The Pursuit of the Questionable...

This is an old animation I created for a class. It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed the story I created :)

Polly Character Design

This is the most recent project I did. I've been working out of Tom Bancroft's book Creating Characters with Personality. It's a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in character design. This is one of the projects presented in the book, a woman named Polly who is a fiesty red head who the leading man falls for. Hope you enjoy it :D

Aphrodite Sketch

So, there's this twitter account called Sketch_Dailies (https://twitter.com/Sketch_Dailies). They give you a prompt for something to sketch during weekdays, and they'll re-tweet artist's posts throughout the day. I think it's a pretty neat account. Here's my sketch for the Aphrodite topic.

Female Face Sketches

I'm in the process of designing a female character and have been having trouble drawing women after drawing so many guy faces for my last character design, so I decided to do some practice sketches of a variety of female faces.

Finished Cowboy Design

Cowboy Colors

These are some color studies for a cowboy character I'm designing right now :D

Teddy Bear Design

Disney's Nine Old Men: Marc Davis

I have been enjoying studying up on Marc Davis. He did a lot of design and animation for leading ladies in the Disney's earlier days which included Cruella De Ville, Alice, Cinderella, and Maleficent. I was more impressed with the designs he did for Disneyland though.  He designed many characters for rides like Pirates of the Caribbean, The Jungle Cruise, It's a Small World, and, one of my favorites, The Carousel of Progress. 

Here are some of his beautiful designs (I didn't draw anything from him this week because I'm a lazy bum... sorry :P)

Avatar Sketches Part 1

Here are some sketches I drew out of the Avatar The Last Airbender: The Art of the Animated Series book. It's a great show full of a lot of talented people:

First Post!

Hello all! Welcome to my blog. I'm hoping to use this as an area to share and vastly improve my skills in drawing and animation. I may occasionally post some of my old work, but I think overall I'm going to try and post newer stuff. In the coming weeks I'm going to be copying (not tracing) different artist's work to improve my own drawing skills, and I'll be posting them up here.

I do have both of my animations I've completed up on my page including the storyboards for them. Feel free to check them out!