COAT OF SMILES, parody art of iconic symbols. A duck's hat, a mouse's ears and a smiling yellow button. Three iconic things brought together in one artwork.
The PAPERWALKER Journal is the personal weblog of DUCKLAND creator and award-winning character designer Florian Satzinger – who worked on characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Silvester etc.), Pinky And The Brain, A.J.Hogg and Scooby-Doo, for studios such as Warner Bros., Disney, ReelFX and Zanuck Family Entertainment – in which he shares bits and pieces of his character design work, processes, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Donald Duck: Parody tribute, take two

1934 vs 2020, 'The Wise Little Hen - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' (please find the previous posting HERE)
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#DonaldDuck #parodyart
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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Donald Duck: 1934 vs 2020, 86 years later

For this parody tribute, I revisited the original model sheet drawings and one of the original background paintings from 'The Wise Little Hen' (Wikipedia), where Donald Duck made his very first appearance. (Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon from 1934 (YouTube)
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#hommage #homage #parodyart #donaldduck
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Albert Uderzo

Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (1927 - 2020). I mean, from a cartoonist's perspective, really, who didn't he influence. I for one, as a kid, came in first contact with his work not through 'Asterix' but 'Ompa-pa and Brother Two Scalp' ('Oumpah-pah' in French).
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#albertuderzo #asterix #Oumpahpah
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Sunday, March 22, 2020

And now for something completely different ...

An elephant, bathing at his favourite spot in the jungle. Locker size format, finished vs rough layout drawing.
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#characterdesign #tvseries #animationdesign #elephant #cartoonshow #preproductionart #processart #backgroundart #cartoonelephant #bluepencils #digitalcolouring
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Fake duck feet

Fake duck feet never fail to cheer him up. Of course, these come with a proper super suit. ... by the by, this is a double-barrelled Colt HB. You can't shoot anybody with it. It's just for speed sketching, it literally shoots drawings out onto paper.
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#parodypainting #parodyart #mickeymouse #supersuit #duckfeet #superhero #drawingprocess #sketchvsfinal #characterconcept
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The one painting display idea

The single painting exhibition, mock-up location: TFAM Taipei Fine Arts Museum Photo credit: 翁維德 (Wei-Te Wong)
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#popartlife #parodypainting #parodymockup
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#bytheway #drawthefuckfromhome

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Shoe shape reference: Adidas Samba. Mod. 1950

These are two rough concept drawing tests which were based on the shape and colours of the original Adidas Samba model from 1950.
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#conceptart #drawingreference #adidassamba #workshop #silhouette #shape #adidas1950 #characterdesign
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Utterly off-model Donald Duck with a freshly brewed caffè doppio macchiato

"Caffè macchiato, sometimes called espresso macchiato, is an espresso coffee drink with a small amount of milk, usually foamed. In Italian, macchiato means 'stained' or 'spotted' so the literal translation of caffè macchiato is 'stained' or 'marked coffee'." (Wikipedia)

Design choices towards the final colour model:

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The Wollmaus

Recently, I revisited the 'Wollmaus' character (a digitally Mickey Mouse parody painting I did two or three years ago) by creating a new large preliminary drawing and adding little details to it, like seams, creases and so forth. This very drawing will become the model for two acrylic paintings, one about 90x70cm and the other one about 200x150cm. The next steps then will be grounding the canvases and transferring the preliminary sketch onto them. I'm not sure if I'll do it freehand or via projection. Let's see ...
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#parodypainting #preliminarydesign #preliminarydrawing #indigocolour #wollmaus #woolmouse #acrylicpaintings #popartlife
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Sunday, March 08, 2020

Fat Hat

Preliminary drawing for a large parody painting, projected size about 2x1.6 meter or 78,7x62.9 inch.
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#preliminarysketch #parodypainting #parodyart #fathat #floriansatzinger #Paperwalker #popartlife
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Friday, March 06, 2020

Juxtaposition to the max

Donald Duck vs Totoro. The reason for why I did this juxtapose parodyart is that I wanted to see it. Usually, my drawing process includes four steps, (1) rough character layout, (2) rough details, (3) linework clean-up and (4) colours.
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#parodyart #juxtaposition #donaldduck #totoro #popart
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Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Marco Rota

Influences such as Marco Rota's Donald Duck were fundamental ingredients of my own duck style. Marco Rota is one of the world's finest duck artists, without dispute. Which is also true of the wonderful Giorgio Cavazzano. You can find BTW more about Giorgio on his newly instablished Instagram page right here: Cavazzano's Instagram ---
#marcorota #disney #donaldduck #giorgiocavazzano #italianmasters #comicartists #duckmen image(c)Disney
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