Latest Construction Attempts...

Besides the obvious problems, I can't understand what I was doing with the crow's beak.

The shape of the beak is right, but the construction is all wrong. The lines on it suggest that you'd be able to see his other eye. If I wasn't copying, that might've been a problem.




The thing that is most wrong with this drawing, though, is the fact that Mickey's line of action is completely wrong. This leads to everything else being wrong.

I'm positive that if I had gotten it right, this drawing would've been much better.

I suck at construction

UPDATES BELOW!!!
JohnK says:

So far none of your drawings show that you use construction to draw with.




I'm not going to argue this point that John made yesterday. I know that I draw circles and lines before attempting details, but that doesn't mean I'm doing construction right. As John says, there's only one way to tell if it's right or not. But what am I doing wrong?

I looked at some older copies I did and the one recurring issue is that when I put the transparency over the original drawing ( I'm using PhotoStudio, not Photoshop ) one part will be more or less correct, and then everything else is off, but mathematically by about the same amount and in a different direction.

CLICK HERE TO SEE TREVOR'S COPIES
I figure this means that I'm not getting the distances from one form to another right. And if there's one mistake made, there are several because they all bloom out of the original.

So I decided I would start a drawing and not finish it until I KNOW the forms are in the right place. As you can see below, I've started breaking down the Porky comic cover, and once again, one character has roughly the right forms, but the others are off.

Counting the space with my pencil only seems to work when I'm making the drawing physically the same size, but the ones copied from the DVD player or these sized down comic pages....




The above drawing is ridiculously huge in file size compared to the comic cover. Scaling it down, this is how it compares:




I'm going to dedicate a few hours every night this week to getting this right, and then I'll move on to adding the larger forms. As you can clearly see, I need work and comments.

Maybe I'll join that Cartoon Critique blog.

UPDATES AS OF 01/09/09:
So, I took the drawing above and studied the transparency and made my changes in red. This is what I came up with:



And here's how it looks when resized over the original comic.



I had to resize this differently because the first scan of the drawing ( and first crack at it, pictured above ) had the paper favoring the top of the bed, the second the latter. I'm worried I may not have actually gotten the shapes right, but I'm going to start fresh rather than improve the same drawing. Hopefully, I've learned something. Be back tomorrow with more drawings!

Check back!

UPDATES AS OF 01/12/09:

New changes in blue.



Here's how it looks over the comic:



And now I'm going to do the remaining levels of construction. Hopefully, my theory that if I get the first level right then others will follow will soon be proved, right or wrong.

Please come back.

UPDATES AS OF 01/15/09:

Final changes in blue.



Black outline.



And the final check:



What do you think?

I Found Nemo!

AKA... Crap!

Though it may have previously been thought impossible to degrade the Hanna-Barbera show "Help!.... It's The Hair Bear Bunch", my direct ancestors the British managed to do it.

This is from a show in the late 90's on Cartoon Network UK called 'AKA Cult Toons', and it was a desperate ploy to give editors something fun to do.

The saddest part about this is you'll see a few good cartoons ( "Draftee Daffy", "Little Hiawatha" and "Cow and Chicken" ) play second fiddle to a bunch of rubbish. Though, the blaxploitation clips are cool.

I'll give you a dollar if you can get through both of these videos and not feel like you've been violated in some way.



Oh, and Happy New Year. We're back.

- THE BOOO TOOON MAROOONS

No connection, no shit!

I have no internet connection, and due to the troubling construction of my new home, I may not have it for some time.

But don't worry! I haven't posted a thought-provoking and thorough article in seven months or more, so you should be used to this by now.

Keep checking in, we'll have more to say soon. Sweartagod.

- trevor.

Flintstones Forgery

Weirdo #9 by R. Crumb

From Some Remote Location...

FROM SOME REMOTE LOCATION...

Warning: This post has no pictures.

Hello. You're probably wondering where the Booo Tooons have been lately, huh?

No? Well, I've been away from the internet because of Verizon's incompetence since September 9th, and still am. If you've seen me posting on other people's blogs, rest assured that it was because I was posting from phantom computers ( much like I am now ).

I have several fun posts scheduled, but haven't been able to post them for the reasons I've just explained. In the future, look for:


The Scribner Face

Inking Tablet Practices

Booo Tooons Interview #1:
A Discussion with Garret
Gilchrist about his
'The Thief and The Cobbler: Recobbled Cut'
in five parts.

More Drawings From The
Secret Manx and Itchy Project

Puppet Making

Booo Tooons Interview #2:
Having a Drink with Vincent Waller

The Complete History of Screaming:
Drawing Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey

Captain Capitalism

Booo Tooons Interview #3:
My Pal Mike Peters



Also, I should add that the other two Booo Tooon Marooons, Janine and Matthew, have given birth to their first son, my God son, Hendrix, and he is doing very well, but only sleeps a few hours at a time.

Lastly, I should mention that I didn't do the picture of Bush two posts below this one that you all love so much. It appeared in The Onion several weeks ago, and I knew people would like it.

Keep coming back, I promise we'll be back soon with more!

PS: I promise to have the links done before Halloween!

Bill Melendez, RIP

BILL MELENDEZ, R.I.P.

We'll miss you, Bill!

Click here to read the full story.




One of the few still-living legends, Bill Melendez gives a rare candid interview where he talks about his begining at Disney, what he considers his 'step-up' to Warner Bros. and working in the Clampett unit in the 40's, to his experiences working at UPA and finally on the Peanuts specials he produced for television.



Bill was Rod Scribner's assistant in the Clampett unit, and is the only guy, other than Robert McKimson, who could be considered as being on Scribner's level.

He will be missed by the industry and by friends.

Thanks to whoever posted this interview initially.