Showing posts with label Flintstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flintstone. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Cave Folk and their fashions
So I guess the
Flintstones, B.C., Alley Oop and other classic cartoon caveman
characters lived during the Mesozoic since they cavorted with dinosaurs.
It makes me wonder how they wore furs - being that large mammals hadn't evolved yet.
They'd have to sew together 20 shrew-sized proto-mammals to get one decent suit out of it.
Thinking like an executive, would it be more logical that they'd be wearing reptile skins with scales and maybe feathers instead of fur?
Like this guy on the right?
More tomorrow...
Labels:
Cartoon Logic,
Flintstone
Monday, May 20, 2019
Kartoon Kubism
Picasso is pretty funny.
Juan Gris is not as funny but he has great color and design sense.
Of course every cartoonist knows Miro is the funniest.
Anyway I always liked this stuff even though I'm no expert on fine art.
I think it’s because
as a kid I was so fascinated by the early Hanna Barbera style which didn’t make
logical visual sense but was fun to look at.
...like how Fred's mouth and hair looked the same from the front as it did from the side.
What if they took it further - Like having his mouth appear from different directions from each angle?
Or how Yogi's eye (only 1 of them) went in front of his hat.
It’s fun and easy to do because the abstraction is already
inherent in the (Ed Benedict) designs.
I have a tougher time abstracting more constructed characters like Looney Tunes.
I tried the other day. First I started with just trying to exaggerate the characters - as opposed to abstracting them.
Even that is hard to do because Bob Clampett already exaggerated them to such extremes.
Then I began to transition from mere caricatures to more abstracted deconstructed designs.
This is about the best I've been able to come up with so far. Still a ways to go.
My own characters are kind of a blend of old style construction and abstraction.
But even these can be pushed farther into bad dreams.
Labels:
caricature,
Doodles Breakfast,
Flintstone,
HB,
Jetsons,
Kartoon Kubism,
Ren and Stimpy,
Yogi
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