Copyright infringement here we come!

Excuse excuse excuse, blah blah, terrible blogger, blah, excuse, blah blah.

Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's see if I can't spit this post and get back on track with regular updates.

With this post, I'm introducing a second sub genre of my drawing "abilities", copying. If you own the Little Mermaid VHS (the one with the penis spire on the castle), you might be familiar with this still. I believe it's on the back cover. I loved the movie, memorized the soundtrack, so sure, why not copy the art.

And the amazing part, to me at least, is that I did this freehand. No tracing, no measuring. Just the original art on the case as reference. A close inspection of the image reveals an erased attempt at the head, but other than that I did this in pretty much one shot.

But even this one talent was fickle. Thrilled with how well Sebastian came out, I moved on to a couple of the supporting cast pictured on the case. This guy and his buddy were another pair of successes, but that second one is already showing signs of me losing focus. And my next effort (or, rather, the best effort on the next character after I erased a few initial tries) resulted in this not so flattering rendition of Flounder. Without the original to compare to it may not be obvious, but I just couldn't manage to get it right without adding a few ounces to his waistline. It's bad enough that he's the roundest flatfish ever, but I just kept making him pudgier than he already is. And it got worse. What I didn't scan were a later, fatter, attempt of Flounder, a fat version of that first trumpeter, and a Bart Simpson that was just...well, it wouldn't have even passed muster at the sh*tty Korean animation sweatshop that butchered the Simpson's pilot episode.

At some point I'll get those scanned as well. I also have a handful of other copied drawings from different points. There's one that I haven't seen in probably a decade. If I'm lucky it's preserved in a book or folder buried in a closet somewhere. If not, oh well.

Bah, I'm still not satisfied with this entry, but it's been nearly a month, so I'm just going to pull the trigger. Next up, if I'm feeling brave, I'm going to start posting some more recent content, perhaps even, gasp, create something new.