I want to steer everyone in the direction of Cartoon Brew and their story on Hattie Noel, the beautiful fat actress and dancer who modeled for Disney animators as reference for the hippo ballet sequence in Fantasia. Especially awesome is the clip they found of Hattie at the center of a song and dance number doing the jitterbug for the movie "Irene."

I love it when these things get out of the vault.

Week later update: Color version is up, here's the line art from last week.

Labels: comical, inspirado

Saw a great little documentary this weekend, "Hell On Wheels" about the resurgence of RollerDerby in Austin Texas. They had a raffle and I won two V.I.P. tickets to the next Derby Dolls match! Wooooo Derby!

www.hellonwheelsthemovie.com

Labels: comical

Here's two variations of the caricature. Part of the reason I'm unsure about it is the heavy shadows, so here's one without and one with half-way between the two.




Unrelated, I caught my first few episodes of the new American Gladiators on the plane and I have such a crush on Hellga.

Labels: comical

Sort of weird drawing a lady without a smile...but I guess that's what makes it ennui huh?

Week later update: Here's the line are that I had up last week.


Week and a half later update: here's the flat color version I put up a few days ago.

Labels: comical