Tag: Yogi Bear

More Testin’ Out The Tablet

Still warming myself up to the new Wacom… fortunately, I was right in my last post here when I said I’d probably get used to the brush thickness settings!

It’s been a while since I last animated, so I took Harmony for a spin and made a quick-ish Boo Boo walk cycle:

Nothing too elaborate, but it was just meant to get me used to the new tablet, as well as re-teach myself some animation basics I’d been neglecting the past couple of months.

I also drew a caricature of Mickey DeSadist, frontman for one of my favorite bands of all time, the Forgotten Rebels:

Some self-esteem boosting news: the official Rebels Instagram and Facebook pages both shared it, and a fan of the band asked me if they could buy it as a print (working on getting that done)! All in all, that was a pretty good couple of hours for me.

Also, here’s… y’know, I’m not really sure what this is:

And a Jabberjaw:

Finally, just a couple of minutes ago, I doodled Bugs in Photoshop:

Bugs has always been a tricky character for me to draw right… it’s weird, I’ve been drawing the dude since I was first able to hold a pencil, and yet when I’m going from memory I’m never quite satisfied with how the drawing turns out.

This wasn’t meant to be based on a specific director’s take on the rabbit, just rendering him in my own sorta style.

Anyways, I’m having fun with this thing! I’ll post some more of what I come up with on it later.

Yogi and Boo-Boo Drawing

I’ve been on a big Hanna-Barbera kick as of late.

I mean, I’ve been a big dork for their stuff for quite literally as long as I can remember, but recently I’ve been reminding myself of why I love those toons so much. I’ve been seeking out some of the HB DVDs I’ve been missing, as well as tracking down what’s not “officially” available yet online (don’t tell the cops).

I think Mr. Jinks is probably my favorite HB character, but Yogi Bear is pretty close to the top of that list– and he’s a lot of fun to draw, too. So I took a stab at doing my own take on the Yogster, as well as his faithful companion, Boo Boo.

A lot of the older HB cartoons are illustrated with these beautiful, thicker outlines, and I’m trying to get into the habit of using those a bit more… so I figured, why not practice here? It took me way longer than it usually does to complete a drawing, but I’m actually pretty satisfied with the way it turned out here (at least until I inevitably turn on the drawing like I do with all my art and start noticing stuff I coulda done better).

You might’ve noticed that I changed up the characters’ color palettes a bit… a lot of old HB merchandise tended to have the characters colored in wrong for whatever reason (I have a few theories), and I’ve always got a kick out of that. It’s pretty interesting to try other color combos on iconic character designs and see how they turn out. Yogi’s hat and tie being blue and pink respectively was inspired by this piece of merch I found a photo of online not too long ago:

Image courtesy of Yowp (https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2019/07/buy-huck-buy-often.html).

One other change-up from Yogi’s best-known design is that I put some of Yogi’s snout color around his eyes. In some of the earliest Yogi shorts, he had this, and I wanted to play around with integrating that element of his appearance into my drawing.

From Yogi’s Big Break.

It reminds me of Mickey Mouse.

I actually went back and forth a lot between that design and the more traditional one. I settled on the former, but here’s a version with the latter just because I’m spineless: