Animation Artifacts 01 Sep 2007 07:56 am
Betty Drawings
- I have a few Betty Boop drawings Grim Natwick had done in the mid Seventies. When he achieved a small bit of fame for animating this character, he was besieged with requests for drawings. He did a number of drawings to give to interviewers. These included some cels that he actually had inked and painted. Not all of these drawings and cels were handed out. Not all of them were good.
Until I run out of these drawings, I thought I’d post some of them, one a week. Maybe soon they’ll do a Betty dvd comparable to what they’ve done with Popeye and keeping her front and center might encourage someone. Here’s the earliest of the drawings I have, and I think it’s a good one.
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James Stevenson has another of his wonderful op-ed commentaries in the NYTimes today. Take a look; this guy is one of my favorite writers/cartoonists/artists around. I love his work.
on 04 Sep 2007 at 2:16 am 1.Adrienne said …
That drawing of Betty is absolutely lovely. The hands, the arms, the way the eyes rest inside the head, the expression. The drawing is so simple, yet everything has such nice volume. If they actually made a t-shirt with that nice an image of Betty on it, I’d actually buy it. Thank’s for sharing, and can’t wait for more!