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Now you really have seen about everything...
Well here's one out of left field.
To be honest, Dumbo was not my favourite Disney movie as a kid. There seemed to be rather too many unlikeable characters in it. Plus for some reason I always found cartoons of that era a bit creepy - the whole Pink Elephants on Parade sequence in particular used to freak me out when I was little. Being scared of clowns probably didn't help either.
One of the few things I did like about Dumbo growing up was the crows. They seemed a lot of fun, they weren't creepy, and they weren't gits. They also had by far the best song in the movie (the wordplay in which was completely wasted on kids, by the way.)
Oh - and they had big toes. Big, dancing toes. Disney always had a bit of a knack of making feet look good while dancing.
Which brings me to this picture. I've occasionally contemplated drawing the crows a few times in the past but never bothered. Recently the thought came to me again and I decided to give it a go, so I chose the leader, Jim Crow. I've always been a bit of a sucker for characters who have that bit of an in-your-face swagger about them, plus there's something about those toes in spats - or moreover, coming out of them - that I find rather yummy.
I did a few training sketches of the character (as ever) and then threw this together bit by bit over the course of a couple of weeks. It's a fairly unremarkable bit of artwork really, but I thought it was a fun experiment.
Some might notice similarities between this and the first picture I drew of Alan-A-Dale from Robin Hood a few years ago. Much like how different Disney animators drew him, I've noticed similar inconsistency with the crows concerning whether their legs bend in an avian fashion or a human fashion. As a personal preference, I chose a human-style knee again.
I should make it clear that I am aware Dumbo and the crows in particular have a bit of political baggage, so to speak - I've spent enough of my academic background studying American history to know the words 'Jim Crow' have rather more meaning than just a Disney character. But I'm hoping people will keep that aside and just take this submission for what it is: a daft bit of cartoon paw fetish artwork.
As I've mentioned in my recent journal, I don't have a huge amount of time or enthusiasm for artwork anymore and I find myself rather dipping in and out of the furry fandom nowadays. But this is one of a few pieces I've been having a go at here and there in the last couple of months and I'm optimistic of getting a few more of them finished soon. So stay tuned.
RRRex
Now you really have seen about everything...
Well here's one out of left field.
To be honest, Dumbo was not my favourite Disney movie as a kid. There seemed to be rather too many unlikeable characters in it. Plus for some reason I always found cartoons of that era a bit creepy - the whole Pink Elephants on Parade sequence in particular used to freak me out when I was little. Being scared of clowns probably didn't help either.
One of the few things I did like about Dumbo growing up was the crows. They seemed a lot of fun, they weren't creepy, and they weren't gits. They also had by far the best song in the movie (the wordplay in which was completely wasted on kids, by the way.)
Oh - and they had big toes. Big, dancing toes. Disney always had a bit of a knack of making feet look good while dancing.
Which brings me to this picture. I've occasionally contemplated drawing the crows a few times in the past but never bothered. Recently the thought came to me again and I decided to give it a go, so I chose the leader, Jim Crow. I've always been a bit of a sucker for characters who have that bit of an in-your-face swagger about them, plus there's something about those toes in spats - or moreover, coming out of them - that I find rather yummy.
I did a few training sketches of the character (as ever) and then threw this together bit by bit over the course of a couple of weeks. It's a fairly unremarkable bit of artwork really, but I thought it was a fun experiment.
Some might notice similarities between this and the first picture I drew of Alan-A-Dale from Robin Hood a few years ago. Much like how different Disney animators drew him, I've noticed similar inconsistency with the crows concerning whether their legs bend in an avian fashion or a human fashion. As a personal preference, I chose a human-style knee again.
I should make it clear that I am aware Dumbo and the crows in particular have a bit of political baggage, so to speak - I've spent enough of my academic background studying American history to know the words 'Jim Crow' have rather more meaning than just a Disney character. But I'm hoping people will keep that aside and just take this submission for what it is: a daft bit of cartoon paw fetish artwork.
As I've mentioned in my recent journal, I don't have a huge amount of time or enthusiasm for artwork anymore and I find myself rather dipping in and out of the furry fandom nowadays. But this is one of a few pieces I've been having a go at here and there in the last couple of months and I'm optimistic of getting a few more of them finished soon. So stay tuned.
RRRex
Category All / Paw
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spats definitely made those disney characters more appealing. they define and add more shape to the top of a foot, which is often less appreciated than the bottom of it. I remember a phase where i crushed hard on that duck DILF Dagobert, just cause he had those eyecatching white spats on his feet mmm, duck feet
To be fair, they were classics. But I just didn't like them as a kid. Perhaps because they didn't have enough bold or zany characters. The comic characters were usually funny in a bit of a tame/Music Hall/Charlie Chaplin way, not a Prince John/Baloo/Genie/Timon way. When Dopey the Dwarf is your film's most comic creation, it's only really suitable for consumption by Rod and Todd Flanders.
Animation enthusiasts absolutely. They were masterpieces of the medium. Some of the shots they implemented would be done so easily with computers now that it's astonishing they even attempted them back then.
But yeah, speaking purely as a child of the 1980s, they just seem a bit... lame. Or verging on the edge of creepy. Plus there's a part of me that's almost waiting for a caricature of Hitler to show up and the whole thing to turn into an Allied propaganda film, such was the nature of cartoons back then!
But yeah, speaking purely as a child of the 1980s, they just seem a bit... lame. Or verging on the edge of creepy. Plus there's a part of me that's almost waiting for a caricature of Hitler to show up and the whole thing to turn into an Allied propaganda film, such was the nature of cartoons back then!
Now that's a lovely plump interpretation of those feet! Neat to see.
As for dipping in/out of the furry fandom; that sometimes happen as folks get older, gain busy lives and perhaps don't have the draw and musings they once did for it. Or sometimes people just need a bit of time away - either way, you know it's here and not going anywhere, so you can always swing back to it.
As for dipping in/out of the furry fandom; that sometimes happen as folks get older, gain busy lives and perhaps don't have the draw and musings they once did for it. Or sometimes people just need a bit of time away - either way, you know it's here and not going anywhere, so you can always swing back to it.
Huh, that's strange, you usually upload your pieces on the same day you complete them - you completed this last week and did didn't upload it then. For a moment, I got a bit confused because the picture didn't show the "11/09" in your usual timely European way but you posted this as if it were September fifth, heh he heh.
Anyway, this looks really nice. I assume you did the grass & the log (or whatever it is) with a tablet? I know you did the line-art of the crow & coloured & shaded it afterwards, as usual. Speaking of which, how much shading did you put into this? Because your shading along with your colouring is always nice to look at & study.
Anyway, this looks really nice. I assume you did the grass & the log (or whatever it is) with a tablet? I know you did the line-art of the crow & coloured & shaded it afterwards, as usual. Speaking of which, how much shading did you put into this? Because your shading along with your colouring is always nice to look at & study.
Actually the delayed upload thing happens more often than you'd think. Sometimes I'm just not in a position to get a picture uploaded on the same day I completed it, other times I like to wait until specific dates or times of the week. But as I sometimes make late adjustments to pictures shortly before I upload them, I often update the date on the image to reflect when it was last modified. So it can look like I've just finished it even if it was 99.9% finished weeks ago.
Plus there was an added complication with this particular submission - I was going to upload it early last week, but that was when FA was down!
Most of the digital work on all my pictures is done with a tablet in recent years. I still tend to draw the character linework with pencil on paper, but once it's scanned, pretty much everything is done with my tablet from thereon. Pretty much every background I do is done with a tablet, but also most of the shading and detailing is too.
Hard to quantify the shading, as I often make it up as I go along with as many layers as I feel I need to be comfortable working with. Looking at the file now, there's nine layers of what I suppose you'd call 'shading'. But sometimes I can get away with doing it all on two, or sometimes I'll go mad and have 20. The difference isn't necessarily visible either - it's a matter of what's easier to work with rather than what looks better.
Plus there was an added complication with this particular submission - I was going to upload it early last week, but that was when FA was down!
Most of the digital work on all my pictures is done with a tablet in recent years. I still tend to draw the character linework with pencil on paper, but once it's scanned, pretty much everything is done with my tablet from thereon. Pretty much every background I do is done with a tablet, but also most of the shading and detailing is too.
Hard to quantify the shading, as I often make it up as I go along with as many layers as I feel I need to be comfortable working with. Looking at the file now, there's nine layers of what I suppose you'd call 'shading'. But sometimes I can get away with doing it all on two, or sometimes I'll go mad and have 20. The difference isn't necessarily visible either - it's a matter of what's easier to work with rather than what looks better.
Heh - actually I suspect I wasn't that racially insensitive for its time, it was only subsequently that people came to recognise just how stereotypical the representation of the crows was.
I have to say though, I had absolutely no idea as a kid. Then again I can't recall having any real recognition of accents and dialects at that age - unless a character was actually speaking a different language, I couldn't tell where they were supposedly from or what kind of social group they were representative of.
I have to say though, I had absolutely no idea as a kid. Then again I can't recall having any real recognition of accents and dialects at that age - unless a character was actually speaking a different language, I couldn't tell where they were supposedly from or what kind of social group they were representative of.
So, so happy to see another submission from you! :D
You always make feet look so delicious, especially with birds ~
You really make the 2d models of the original characters come to life, and it never ceases to amaze me.
I will look forward to with great anticipation your next submission.
You always make feet look so delicious, especially with birds ~
You really make the 2d models of the original characters come to life, and it never ceases to amaze me.
I will look forward to with great anticipation your next submission.
I have to admit, I liked Dumbo, but not by that much. I must admit, the characters in it were so mean spirited, I especially wanted to hurt those mean grumpy elephant females. Sheesh. And I remember my older brother used to be scared of the the pink elephant scene, I didn't much understand it myself when I was younger.
Anyway, its funny, but the only characters I remember much of from this movie are the Jim Crows, Dumbo himself and the mother. I found the Jim Crows entertaining and you are the first to ever draw content on any of them, at least for me. When I first saw this, I was ....quite taken in by this. He still has that smooth swagger like in the movie, holding his cigar and raising those eyebrows like he is fully aware of something you like as he points his taloned foot sole first at me. And you still made him look quite feathery, and very accurate to his movie incarnation. Again, the details in the specks of dirt are so eye catching...and make me want to start licking them off. I can just see his sole pressing into the grass, loosening grass in dirt as it starts catching onto the talon toes. I can envision maybe he sptted me looking at his feet as he was flying around or in a tree, and then landed down below, being a showoff, his feet grinding into the dirt and grass as he landed before getting all smug with me. Perhaps he slipped off his other spat with his foot and gripped it with his toes, before he flung it in my direction. X3 And I do love those spats, I find spats to be quite fancy, and seeing these barefoot spats on him along with his rather gangster suit have me make him look classy. Those spats...I do wonder where the other went? It probably absorbed a good amount of sweat from Jim Crow's foot as he flew around.....crap, now I'm wondering what it smelled like.
Those smelly talons look so firm, like...if someone...rolled thier tongue across it, it would feel those small bumps on it quite well and the rest would be a graceful and smooth lick across his talons. You made his three toes ideal, it looks perfectly natural to how a bird's feet are and like they can grip ya very well. I suppose he can probably...grip a croc's snout if he so felt like it with those talons, those toeclaws digging into his scales a bit. I really am curious about the smell now. I can sorta imagine some of those flecks on Jim's sole are also ashes from his cigar. I really like that you added some dirtiness to his visible spat as well, and I can imagine that the strip strapped to his sole is teeming in lively sweat, waiting for me to lick there too. Shoot, I can see him just now just...teasing me for no good reason other than to get to me~ I'd be saying more about wanting to do stuff to his talons but, I think I've been talking to much as is.
Anyway, its funny, but the only characters I remember much of from this movie are the Jim Crows, Dumbo himself and the mother. I found the Jim Crows entertaining and you are the first to ever draw content on any of them, at least for me. When I first saw this, I was ....quite taken in by this. He still has that smooth swagger like in the movie, holding his cigar and raising those eyebrows like he is fully aware of something you like as he points his taloned foot sole first at me. And you still made him look quite feathery, and very accurate to his movie incarnation. Again, the details in the specks of dirt are so eye catching...and make me want to start licking them off. I can just see his sole pressing into the grass, loosening grass in dirt as it starts catching onto the talon toes. I can envision maybe he sptted me looking at his feet as he was flying around or in a tree, and then landed down below, being a showoff, his feet grinding into the dirt and grass as he landed before getting all smug with me. Perhaps he slipped off his other spat with his foot and gripped it with his toes, before he flung it in my direction. X3 And I do love those spats, I find spats to be quite fancy, and seeing these barefoot spats on him along with his rather gangster suit have me make him look classy. Those spats...I do wonder where the other went? It probably absorbed a good amount of sweat from Jim Crow's foot as he flew around.....crap, now I'm wondering what it smelled like.
Those smelly talons look so firm, like...if someone...rolled thier tongue across it, it would feel those small bumps on it quite well and the rest would be a graceful and smooth lick across his talons. You made his three toes ideal, it looks perfectly natural to how a bird's feet are and like they can grip ya very well. I suppose he can probably...grip a croc's snout if he so felt like it with those talons, those toeclaws digging into his scales a bit. I really am curious about the smell now. I can sorta imagine some of those flecks on Jim's sole are also ashes from his cigar. I really like that you added some dirtiness to his visible spat as well, and I can imagine that the strip strapped to his sole is teeming in lively sweat, waiting for me to lick there too. Shoot, I can see him just now just...teasing me for no good reason other than to get to me~ I'd be saying more about wanting to do stuff to his talons but, I think I've been talking to much as is.
*coughblushcough* You know, now you teasing me... >/////> I'd say he deserves another go, what with those fancy spats on his natural talons that can get dirty oh so easily...and oh so grippable. Ahem, now you are making me very curious about that Jim sketch..that you now had around for 4 months since your last comment. ^^; I can already see this swagalicious crow stepping around like he owns the place on that snazzy footwear~
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