Happy Draw

[tealin]

Yesterday and this morning I was thoroughly fed up with the stupid monkeys who inhabit this planet. I'd finished my last sequence on Friday so when I came in I didn't have anything to do besides wait for revisions, so I passed some time by watching another Doctor Who episode* and for the rest of the day was full of glee. In tribute I drew this beeeeautiful depiction of the Doctor's magical effect on my day.
[EDIT: Because I can't leave things well enough alone, I've niggled with this ... if you saw it in the first 24 hours it was posted, refresh! It looks sooooo much better now.]


A barely passable attempt at the ninth Doctor ... couldn't make him look as kooky as he can, though.


I've had 'The Ballad of Billy McCaw' stuck in my head all weekend and so tried to get it out by listening to Cats again. Didn't work (it's still stuck) but I played around with some Growltiger stuff.


Growltiger woos the Lady Griddlebone (who, it appears, is trouble in her own right) ... thank you, Life Drawing. What shall I do through the month of August when neither work nor school is holding it? Nothing will be drawn at all!


My fantabulous sister is rubbing off on me. A little. Need more.

Look at my effective time management! I'm going to be a zombie tomorrow! Hooray!

*I'm limiting my intake so they last longer. I'm still on Doctor #9. Don't rush me! It's hard enough that the CBC taunted me by playing 'Christmas Invasion' this Christmas but not the rest of the series concurrently with the BBC.

Comments

hello!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Love all this stuff - your excellent Dr. ? drawings almost make me wish I had TV again to see what all the fuss is about (thanks for the "Guards" links - I caught most of them and enjoyed the cheesy "space mission" series as well!). Have you seen the model sheets that Amblimation did when they were developing "Cats" oh so long ago? Anyway your Growltiger and Griddlebone are truly delightful! Also liked the man in the scarf! It does seem like you're moving into the crisp, graphic, highly stylized world that Tula generally inhabits!
I also admire your ability to remain productive creative, humorous, and hopeful (occaisional lapses are allowed) in the face of overwhelming tragedy, despair and frightening, infuriating stupidity and/or evil that seems to rule the day.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey, wow! Great to see you around again! I hope everything's OK...? I mean with you of course, we all know about the lovely geopolitical situation and general tetchiness of the world at large. (I avoid despair by drugging myself with fiction! Hooray!) Amblimaton was doing Cats?! Why did they stop? Is it totally dead? Why haven't I ever heard about this? I'd love to see some of their stuff! I suppose the guy in the scarf is more crisp and/or stylized ... it's kind of more of a return to the style of the character designer I worked under for three years from whom I learned an awful lot. My own designs have been getting rather stale of late (when I bother to do them at all) so it's about time something happened to them.

I suspect this is rather a 'lapse' out of hopelessness and into creativity and humour, if relative duration of moods is considered. But I'm enjoying it while it lasts. Is this a 'lapse' back into the internet for you or are you back back?

(ulp!)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

You ask too many pregnant questions for a hasty reply (which is all I have time for right now)! And I don't know the answers to some of them yet (like maybe the last one). But stay tuned...more will follow eventually!
I am OK - though things were looking a bit dicey for a while (again, I'll provide more details later - really!)
I will also see if I can dig up some of that Cats stuff...

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[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

YAY! Disneyboy is back, even if for but a moment. Looking forward to future postings, however infrequent.

Re: hello!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks for noticing. I think nearly everyone else has, understandably, given up and moved on!

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[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

I have to notice, we have your birthday present and need to know to bring it to LALA LAnd or if we can reasonably wait until your traditional b-day party at you-know-where.

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[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Already? Goodness, whatever you prefer, seeing as you got the present! I just wish I could visit with you guys before October! Well, we'll see what happens...

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[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

They were going to make an animation of CATS???? OMG!!!!!!! I would have died of glee, why did they cancel it?

And I totally agree on the the stupidity that rules right now, it's just... I tend to lose faith in the world, really.

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[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

As for "Cats", I'm not sure (this was, what, 10 or 12 years ago?) I think it's possible that they realized there wasn't enough of a through story (a main character, a conflict, resolution, etc.) connecting all the poems to make a coherent film, and that it was too difficult to come up with one and superimpose it on the original material. Or it may have simply been a victim of being in development when Spielberg dissolved Amblimation, after co-founding Dreamworks. Who knows? Anyway, I'll try to track down those model sheets - I remember them as being pretty cool.