Terrytoon Model Sheets

These are the model sheets that made me want to draw the mighty mouse comic. I've been having trouble finding the time to draw at home so most of work is outside of my house. Meaning, I don't check my drawing with a scanner as much as I use to, but still on occasion. This is one of those times I was away from my house, so I didn't check, and this was done at the start of December 2010.

Mighty Mouse Comic Strip

Well here is my first comic strip made just in time for the holidays. It's a Christmas adventure, so I barely got it done in time. Now that a lot of the holiday rush is over I can post it up here for you guys to see. It was kinda rushed to get it done before Christmas, so there was more I wanted to do with it, but being my first comic, I don't mind if it's a little incomplete.






So that was my first finished comic, exciting huh? It was a lot of fun, and it did push me to draw a lot better. I was just drawing Mighty Mouse off of one of his model sheets and was having fun putting him in different poses, so I decided to do a comic with him in it.

Here is my rough storyboard, and then scene sketches.


















Now, here are those sketches arranged on a page and cleaned up. I didn't start off with a full page layout in mind, but i think it worked out pretty well. Next time I will probably do shorter stuff, so that I can work on different specific areas easier. Also I think of the page layout earlier than this time.






Inspired by this post that I read a long time ago, and after looking at it again, it ironically shows a Mighty Mouse comic. What are the odds.

John K Stuff: "How Can I Get Life In My Drawings?" - Tell A Story

And here is my Terrytoons Model Sheet Post

I Yam What I Yam, And That's Hard To Draw

Popeye has been one of the hardest toys for me to draw, and I found out that I drew him way too fat whenever I looked at him from the front or the back. At first glance he seems pretty wide, but apparently he's not that wide. But here are my studies.












Here is one page of the loose popeyes I drew after all of this meticulous studying.

As always, here is the work that went into finishing this little bugger, all of the tries, retries, blood, sweat and tears.







John K Stuff: Toy Drawing 5: Popeye Toy Turnaround

Jinks Knickerbocker Toy Construction

Here's my Jinks toy construction lesson. For some reason, I seemed to like this one more than the Top Cat construction lesson, it came to me easier. Must mean that I'm getting better.

Also, after drawing all of the photos, I did some pretty quick drawings from my head, so that I was applying what I had learned from doing all those drawings. It was fun to do some loose drawing after all that slow, detail-tight drawing. I might do some more later on.
























Here are the quick, loose drawings to see if I learned anything from this lesson. Obviously some look better than others, and all of them have errors, but they don't look half bad.




Here are all of the tries and retries that I did to get to the final drawing.









John K Stuff: Toy Drawing 3 - Advanced -Knickerbocker toys - Jinks