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Topic: Show off your art Pt. 2

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Robb_K
Robb_K
This one is based on a sketch by Carl Barks:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/LostMoneyC.jpg
Debbie
Here's a picture of Minnie Mouse someone asked me to draw that posed its own logic problem: Minnie Mouse painting her fingernails. She wears gloves all the time! (Do mice even HAVE fingernails?!) Of course the simple solution was to take Minnie's gloves off.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/DebbieAnne33/MinnieMouse.png
and here's the early pencil version of the same drawing (It's a shame I couldn't fit Mickey's portrait on the wall in the finished version):
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/DebbieAnne33/minniesketch.png
And here's a pic that I drew for my webcomic Fluffy and Mervin, based on a photo I saw somewhere of The Rat Pack:
http://fluffyandmervin.com/archive/126/image.png
Robb_K
Quote from user: DebbieHere's a pic that I drew for my webcomic Fluffy and Mervin, based on a photo I saw somewhere of The Rat Pack:
http://fluffyandmervin.com/archive/126/image.png

Debbie,
that "bridge" you drew of the mouse making the pocket billiards ("pool") shot, is NOT the way any decent player would position the fingers in hi/her Guide Hand. The fingers should be positioned spread apart, to make a solid, stationary platform atop the table, so the hand won't move when the stick is thrust. The stick slides through a "hole" formed by the index finger of the non-shooting hand being raised and looped, with its tip touching the top of the adjacent finger, at its knuckle. The picture below demonstrates that proper hand position ("bridge") for a four-fingered anthropomorphic being (the loop finger ends next to the thumb, yet still forms the loop through which the stick slides):

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Pool-1.jpg

In the picture, Donald is still preparing his aim,- still lowering his "bridge" to the table surface, before he will shoot. When he is ready, the tips of his index finger and thumb will also be touching the table surface (to provide the platform stability).
Robb_K
Even though the editors changed my gag, the artist who changed the art, left my guide hand position intact, still not finished setting the hand down. But the inker didn't understand what Donald was doing, and wrongly positioned the weight of Donalds two right-side fingers on his guide hand, sticking up into the air, with the weight fully on the right side of the hand:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Pool2-1.jpg
Ha! Ha! Notice that the inker and colourist did NOT understand the game of "Pool", nor what a "Pool Table" is. The inker used only the 3 balls used in the game of "Billiards", and the colourist even used the wrong colours for that wrong game). And both the inker AND the colourist mistook the ball nets (which should be made of string) for a solid half-circular storage compartment for the balls.
Debbie
Thanks. Well, in my defense, I don't usually play pool, and was drawing my picture from memory. The one thing that really messed me up with that picture is that Jerry and Nibbles (from Tom and Jerry) and Mervin are normally mouse-sized and with the exception of the early short "When the Cat's Away", Mickey Mouse is not, so my drawing really couldn't have happened. Here is another pencil sketch I drew of Mickey Mouse:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/DebbieAnne33/mickeysketch.png
Robb_K
Nice drawing, Debbie. Mickey's got great expression and liveliness. We really feel that he has a childlike love of stepping in rain puddles and splashing the water up. Attitude is a big part of action. Do you have any objection to telling us how old you are, and if you have any hopes and ambitions to become a professional artist?
Robb_K
Quote from user: DebbieThanks. Well, in my defense, I don't usually play pool, and was drawing my picture from memory. The one thing that really messed me up with that picture is that Jerry and Nibbles (from Tom and Jerry) and Mervin are normally mouse-sized and with the exception of the early short "When the Cat's Away", Mickey Mouse is not, so my drawing really couldn't have happened.
When I watched the Tom & Jerry cartoons, and read "Our Gang" and "Tom & Jerry" comic books, Jerry Mouse had a baby mouse (named "Tuffy") as a sidekick. Who are Nibbles and Mervin Mouse? When did they come into The MGM cartoon/comic book universe? Did they come in through later animated cartoons made for TV?

The only was to gauge their size relative to Mickey's, is to compare Mickey's size relative to Human beings in both the cartoons and the newspaper comic strips, and those same relationships for The MGM mice in those different media. The common reference point is the size of the "human" figures in both. I agree with you that The MGM mice would then need to be much smaller than you drew them.
Debbie
Mervin isn't an MGM mouse, he's the co-star in Fluffy and Mervin: http://www.fluffyandmervin.com/
Nibbles is the name Tuffy was given in some of the earliest Tom and Jerry shorts he starred in.
Debbie
Quote from user: Robb_KNice drawing, Debbie. Mickey's got great expression and liveliness. We really feel that he has a childlike love of stepping in rain puddles and splashing the water up. Attitude is a big part of action. Do you have any objection to telling us how old you are, and if you have any hopes and ambitions to become a professional artist?
Thanks. Well, I'm in my early 40's, actually. As for hopes and ambitions to become a professional artist? I did have those hopes at one point, but it's mostly a hobby now. You can see my cartoons at http://www.fluffyandmervin.com/
Robb_K
Quote from user: DebbieQuote from user: Robb_KNice drawing, Debbie. Mickey's got great expression and liveliness. We really feel that he has a childlike love of stepping in rain puddles and splashing the water up. Attitude is a big part of action. Do you have any objection to telling us how old you are, and if you have any hopes and ambitions to become a professional artist?
Thanks. Well, I'm in my early 40's, actually. As for hopes and ambitions to become a professional artist? I did have those hopes at one point, but it's mostly a hobby now. You can see my cartoons at http://www.fluffyandmervin.com/

Thanks. So, then, Mervin Mouse is your OWN character....Yes?

And, based on his size relative to Fluffy (The Cat), it seems that he would be much larger than Jerry and Nibbles (or Tuffy, for that matter).
Debbie
Yes, Fluffy and Mervin are my own characters. I've been drawing them off and on since I was in college.
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
Pirates come in all sorts of variations, especially in fiction. Next to the regular pirates, there have been air pirates, space pirates and even land pirates. There's even a Pirates' Party, a political party, and that's in real life! But have you ever heard of road pirates? Probably not; road pirates is Dutch for road hogs. Still, I think that the concept of 'road pirates' would be pretty funny. Quick sketch.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8716/001nbl.jpg
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/8272/wegpiraten.jpg

And remember, September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Yarr!
Robb_K
Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderPirates come in all sorts of variations, especially in fiction. Next to the regular pirates, there have been air pirates, space pirates and even land pirates.
And there have been pirate singing groups, whose records were played on offshore pirate radio stations, probably also listened to by seafaring pirates:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/Pirates1.jpg