Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Disney &Models 21 Aug 2009 07:53 am
How To Draw Donald
- I continue with the Art Corner books from Disneyland with the How To Draw Donald classic. I’d received a full set of these books (How to draw Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto and Chip & Dale) when I bought an Animation Kit from them. I’ve started posting these booklets after posting the lecture series that was given to the staff in the 1930′s.
Go here to see the lecture series posts:
Mickey / Donald / Goofy / Pluto
Here to see How To Draw Mickey.
Here to see How To Draw Pluto.
Here to see How To Draw Goofy (Jenny Lerew‘s Blackwing Diaries.)
Here’s the booklet:
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I don’t have a lot of Donald model sheets to add to this, but these three are interesting.
Master of the Hounds
This last model comes courtesy of Bill Peckmann‘s collection. Many thanks.
on 21 Aug 2009 at 12:31 pm 1.Thad said …
My favorite Donald model.
(Click image to enlarge.)
on 21 Aug 2009 at 1:13 pm 2.Michael said …
Different strokes for different folks. I prefer models from the early Thirties.
on 21 Aug 2009 at 1:41 pm 3.Bill said …
If we are talking Donald Drawings, you have to mention Carl Barks’ Duck chart for drawing comic books, they’re beautifully drawn, they ooze personality and there’s even some gags thrown in.
on 21 Aug 2009 at 5:37 pm 4.Andy said …
Thanks for sharing these, they are great. Is this the full set of Donald pages though? I noticed that pages 6 and 7 are the same, and the final page is from the Mickey booklet.
Cheers
on 21 Aug 2009 at 7:05 pm 5.Thad said …
Yeah, I love the 30s model sheets too. The actual films are another story.
on 21 Aug 2009 at 11:40 pm 6.Michael said …
Sorry Andy, you were right. I accidentally repeated page 6 twice. I’ve corrected it. The last page is the same in all the books.
Thad, you are a paradox to me. You actually like the fifties shorts more than the thirties films? More power to you. I knew they were making those godawful ranger films for someone.
on 22 Aug 2009 at 1:44 am 7.Thad said …
Pardon? Not sure where you got that from – unless you mistook the model I posted as an animation model sheet. I prefer Carl Barks’s Donald Duck to any of the animated cartoons. While the animated Donald is irrefutably a breakthrough in character design, let’s face it. He’s hopelessly inane with an unintelligible voice that any other studio would have used for only a supporting character. Barks delivered a multi-layered, compelling Donald Duck. Disney and his animators did not.
But just the same, I do really love a lot of the cartoons, including many of those “godawful ranger films.”
on 22 Aug 2009 at 9:31 am 8.Michael said …
Of course I recognized the Carl Barks model sheet. It’s a wonderful model for comic books, but it had to match the Donald that the animation studio was using in the Fifties. That’s not my favorite Donald. Glad you like it, though.
on 23 Aug 2009 at 2:42 pm 9.Hans Perk said …
Michael, in the How to Draw Donald Duck that I have, the last two “flippable” pages are actually not flippable, as the one is printed on the reverse of the other. Is this so with yours, as well?
on 23 Aug 2009 at 2:51 pm 10.Michael said …
Actually, the copy I have was a mass produced piece that was stapled together by Disney and was passed out for free at the Lincoln Center show in 1972. The pages are copied on one side only, so the two drawings can be flipped.
However, I did once have that original book and do remember, now that you mention it, that they couldn’t be flipped.
on 25 Aug 2009 at 5:56 pm 11.Andy said …
Thanks Michael
Are you going to be sharing the Goofy book too? I know you put a link to it elsewhere, but the scans are much lower res than these and the set is incomplete. They are such lovely books
on 07 Sep 2009 at 12:30 pm 12.Chris said …
Michael, are the books put out in 1983, “Mickey’s Drawing Class: How to Draw…”, reprints of these earlier books? I just bought the set of four on ebay for $10 each.
on 07 Sep 2009 at 4:28 pm 13.Michael said …
Basically, yes, they are. The original books were printed on yellow slick paper on both sides and were spiral bound with a cardboard cover.
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