Category: Art: Colored Pencil

M-I-C-K-E-Y

Spent some time the other day doing some exploratory sketches of facial expressions for Mickey Mouse in my sketchbook, one of my favorite characters to draw.

 

It’s fun to see what you can get out of him if you treat him as more than just three circles.

 

Back in the mid-aughts, I worked for a few years on a Mickey TV show drawing him and other members of his world such as Minnie, Daisy, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip ‘n’ Dale, Willie the Giant, Pete, Ludwig von Drake, Clarabelle, Horace Horsecollar, and so on and so forth. Having grown up reading Disney comic books, it was such a blast to get to draw those characters every day for a while.

So, while I do sketches like these from time to time for my own pleasure, I look forward to the next legitimate purpose to work on them again one day!

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Unbearable

Oh, that Chauncey.

 

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Will Smith

“Yo homes, to Bel-Air!”

 

To look at his kingdom, he was finally there.

 

I finally got around to watching After Earth the other day, the sci-fi-fi movie M. Night Shyamalan made with Will and Jaden Smith a few years ago. It just hit me that Will has a unique face, and I instantly felt compelled to draw it. So, with my Dark Brown Prismacolor pencil, I gave it a shot.

 

UPDATE: I just want to say that I used to be a fan. After the ugliness at the Oscars on March 27, 2022, rather than remove this drawing, it will be left up with the message that I will no longer support Will Smith’s endeavors with my dollars or attention. Defend a punch with a punch. Defend words with intelligent words. Proverbs 15:1-2 says, “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.”

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Backwoods Boogie

Sheesh. Everyone is making Tik Toks these days.

 

If a bear dances in the woods when no one is around, would it get likes?
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Easter Bunny

Well, ol’ Bugs Bunny isn’t exactly the Easter Bunny, but he’ll do for today.

 

He is just a poor boy, though his story’s seldom told…
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Pooh Parade

Okay, we are now into our second full week of 2021. Are you marching forward into the year with confidence, ready to take on the challenges that lie ahead? If so, be prepared to battle heffalumps and woozles!

 

Maskless and free in the Hundred Acre Woods.

 

By the way, I created this piece for a friend who recently gave birth to her first child. Nothing says “welcome to the world” like Pooh. Take that however you’d like.

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Magic In the Air

Yes, there’s magic in the air. Literally with this drawing. Mickey, as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, just seems to be wasting magic in the air. Sheesh. You’d think he’d at least make a broom come to life or something!

Here’s hoping the magic translates into 2021. The world needs it badly!

 

Blue sparkles from fingertips? He’d better have a doctor look at that.

Happy New Year!

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Captain My Captain

Captain Mickey here as Steamboat Willie turns the ripe old age of 92 TODAY! That’s right, Mickey and Minnie both were born this day in cinemas in their first cartoon way back in 1928.

The mouse has held up well over the years. We should all be so fortunate.

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