Over on his blog, veteran animator John K. is explaining the mechanics of drawing cartoons. He then challenged others to try their hands at drawing this frame from a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon.  I think his challenge was aimed at animation students, but even though I’m neither an animator or a student, I decided to give it a try.

This drawing on the right is mine (in case you had any doubts).  It wasn’t until I got into the drawing that I realized how complex the original was– the distortion of Bug’s face, with one big eye and the other tightly shut, required some careful analysis… I think I did a decent job, but it’s not 100% by any means.  I feel like I lost some of the solidity of the head, not to mention the ears are kinda weird and I’ve got the angle of the neck wrong.   But it was fun… reminds me of when I used to copy characters out of comic books as a kid.