Donald Duck II

Two drawings I did a few months ago of Scrooge McDuck, on papier dessin à grain Clairefontaine 180 g (83 lb), with Joseph Gillott's Lithographic Pens 170 and 290, and a Pergamano Tracing Pen. The figure in the first one was drawn after Barks.

The background of the above drawing is, somewhat altered, done after a Doré engraving for Dante's Divine Comedy (Canto 7), the grand poem about heaven and hell he wrote to honor his love, but in which he, somehow, happened to spill lots of his talent detailly describing the tortures of people he did not like.

Donald Duck I

A drawing I did some years ago of Donald Duck and Huey, Louie and Dewey, and Uncle Scrooge, on 120 gsm A4 paper, with Joseph Gillott's Lithographic Pen 290, a Pergamano Tracing Pen, and a Plume Atome 423 (Conté France).

I used an old etch of the Thames Embankment by the nineteenth century artist Willem Witsen as an example for the background of Donald and the nephews ([Regen,] Thames Embankment, 1890). The building behind Scrooge I recently found back in Stern's, Mellins' and Fishman's New York 1960 (New York, The Monacelli Press, 1995). Apparently it is Kips Bay Plaza, First to Second Avenue, East Thirtieth to East Thirty-third Street.

It is an old drawing, and it has some faults in it, but I still like the details. I remember I mainly drew it from a photo from a photo from a book in the library, returning two times to learn the details by heart, because I was a poor little fuck. Not because I am into that avantgarde shit, or something.