Some of Disney's more obscure villains

Disney has had a lot of crazy characters in their movies over the last gazillion years.  I took it upon myself to draw the bad guys a while ago.  Here are some more of those sketches, a sampling of some of the lesser well known perpetrators of cruel deeds.

This villain is probably the least malicious looking of anything that has ever come out of Pixar.  I mean, it's a ship's steering column. But the Auto Pilot in Wall-E had its own directive and was willing to do anything to achieve its goals.

Although looking like the classic, mustache twirling villain from years gone by, "Meet the Robinsons" Bowler Hat Guy was comically incompetent.  No, the true threat was the hat itself.

Sometimes a villain is cruel for the pleasure he gets from it.  MacLeach was a poacher in the Outback in "The Rescuers Down Under."  His prey was the magnificent golden eagle, and he was willing to murder a young boy to keep him quiet about MacLeach's activities.

Speaking of "The Rescuers," the original film featured the horrible Madam Medusa.  Her greed led her down the path to kidnapping, child slavery, child endangerment, and keeping illegal exotic animals as pets.

Some Disney Villains

A while back I decided to draw all the Disney villains from the major animated features.  Gaston was featured a couple of posts ago, but that was quite a while ago and I never finished sharing them.  Here are a few more of them.

Cute and innocent she may appear, but Zootopia's Assistant Mayor Bellwether is not to be underestimated.

Less a villain and more a force of nature, Chernabog is the threat in the original Fantasia.

Clayton's only goal is the capture of the gorilla family and not even Tarzan will stand in his way.

Stuff to see, including last month's Inktober challenge

As you can tell, I haven't been the best at keeping this blog current.  Every time I realize it, I feel guilty and promise to post regularly again, then I don't.  Guess we're back at the beginning of the cycle once again.

Anyway, I was very busy during October, somehow managing to stay on top of the whole Inktober challenge this year. I chose to use the posted prompts from Jake Parker, the creator of Inktober, which allowed me to dig deep into my mixed up bag of tricks to find something appropriate for each day's sketch.

Having gotten the prompts a week or so ahead of the start of the month, I had time to get at least a few ideas in my head, particularly Day 2's prompt: Divided.

My belief is that this country is more divided than it's been in my lifetime, and I lay the blame at our divider in chief, Donald J. Trump.  In this illustration, I may have exaggerated his over-sized tie just a bit.  Donald stands before a collage of angry faces, including Lebron James and former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  The silhouette of the continental United States is filled with angry emojis.  I drew the largest parts on paper with a pen, then used Adobe Illustrator for all the little circles of the emojis.  Photoshop brought it all together with the little faces and compositing the piece.

Rage

Stromboli, maniacal puppeteer from the story of Pinocchio.  The counterpoint to the fatherly Gepetto.
Cool gray Prismacolor markers

What the...? Another post?

Yeah, I know it isn't expected, but I've actually done more art things lately. I have more on my plate still, but I'll get to posting them as soon as I can.

This image is for the book Stories and Shows from Pinocchio's Marionette Theater. You may be wondering how I could be doing new art for a book that not only was published three years ago, but was also taken out of print almost immediately due to a lawsuit involving copyrights. Well, I am happy to say that the suit was settled and the author, Dave Eaton, is legally allowed to print his book again. Rather than simply starting up the presses again, Dave decided to spruce up the book a little by adding one of the few scripts he left out of the first edition, Peter & Wendy. Dave nearly used some public domain image to accompany his story, but fortunately came to his senses and dropped me an email. And that is the story behind this fun little doodle.

No Foolin'.