Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and other characters copyright Disney.

As I’ve mentioned once or twice before on this blog, a few years ago I was approached with the possibility of drawing Disney’s ducks for comic books. I grew up watching Disney’s Ducktales on TV and reading all the comics I could get my hands on. But I had never tried to seriously draw them until then. And I wasn’t too bad at it. But before I could get my first assignment, the editor I was talking with lost his job and the whole Disney comics line closed down.  Such things happen sometime. (Don’t worry, I landed the Kansas Jayhawk ABC book weeks later, and that worked out pretty well for me.)

But I developed the love of drawing Donald, Uncle Scrooge, and the whole gang of ducks.  So I occasionally start my day with couple sketches of Donald to warm up the ol’ drawing hand before working on my own stuff. And so I decided to put all that practice to good use and draw the Disney ducks in a more finished illustration.

And I think it turned out OK. What do you think?