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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PLEASE NOTE, the displayed parody artworks of classical cartoon characters are not copies but distinct satiric imitations/caricatures, by exaggerating and transforming the original characters and their related indica (see 'Coat of Smiles') in a way that creates new originals and new meanings, different from the intentions of the originals.
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

The Duckland Cowboy

A quick Lucky Luke parody. just for the fun of it. Apropos, check out my pal's Instagram, he's the official Lucky Luke drawer since 2003: Achdé's INSTAGRAM
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Plein Air Artist

Cloudy with a chance of pencil shavings.
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

The beautiful Mr Jones, Terry Jones.

Remembering the uniquely talented and versatile Terry Jones. I'm pretty sure that you didn't know that he wrote the screenplay for Jim Henson's Labyrinth, did you?

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Carbon Black Art Festival

April 4th-5th 2020, registration is open now: CLICK HERE!
Jake Parker - Even Amundsen - Peter Han - Hector Moran - Florian Satzinger - Fatemeh Haghnejad - Amber Huang - Pauline Voss
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Trashy Costume

Random duck (Duck Basel) in a trashy Donald Duck costume.
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Friday, January 10, 2020

The Metamorphosis

As Donald Duck awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into Instagram image size shape.


#parodyart #donaldduck #popartlife #characterdesign #franzkafka #artreferences
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Daffy Duck 1937 vs Homage 2020

This is a homage to Tex Avery's and Bob Clampett's original version of Daffy Duck from 1937.
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Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Happy New Year, Everyone!


Image credit: via Amazon
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Friday, December 13, 2019

Please meet Captain Cardboard

Cardboard boxes, my childhood's creativity gears.

"Cardboard is a generic term for heavy-duty paper-based products having greater thickness and superior durability or other specific mechanical attributes to paper; such as foldability, rigidity and impact resistance." (Wikipedia)
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

It's a wrap!

Enough with the duck-taped things, now. This is the last one, promise.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Duck-taped

In contrast to the unaffordable Banana duct-taped to a white wall at Art Basel Miami, I can announce the arrival of the affordable Duck taped onto a white T-Shirt available at Zazzle: ORDER ONLINE
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Sunday, December 08, 2019

Nine Postings, Over One Million People

Wow, these are my top nine 2019 on Instagram, sorted by reach. Totalled up, these nine little postings alone reached more than one million people. That's smashingly crazy and flattering, many thanks for stopping by my little Duckland here and over at IG, I highly appreciate that. Cheers!

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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

I'm on a pencils diet, since forever

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