Hi all,

welcome to Snoopy 101 chuck Jones challenge, my name is Brian David your host. Although I am no expert on this....

Chuck Jones

Born Sept 21, 1912 graduated from what is known today as the California institute of the arts, drew pencil portraits for a dollar a piece then got his first job in the animation industry as a cell washer for a former Disney animator in 1932.

Jones was an Artist, Cartoonist, Producer, Screenwriter, and Director of over 250 Cartoons at Warner Brothers Cartoon Studio. He was the sole creator and co creator of many of the Loony Tunes and Merrie Melody characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, and two of my favorites Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote...and many many more.

Jones also went on producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer including Dr Seuss "The Grinch That Stole Christmas" and "Horton Hears a Who"

Jones was nominated 8 times for an Oscar winning many, in 1996 received an honorary academy award by the Board Of Governors of the academy of motion picture arts & sciences. Although he sadly died of heart failure in 2002, Bugs and his many Cartoons live forever. He will always be remembered by many as the "Master of Animation"

My Challenge

all levels of skill are encouraged to participate.

Simply draw one of Chuck Jones illustrations I have provided below, you may also create your own or use any reference you wish, please no computer graphics, all drawings must be hand drawn, you may use your computer for color or text, but please post your original drawing first.

Hope you all enjoy this challenge,

Happy drawings,

Brian.

Great challenge as usual, Bri-guy.. Do I see my favorite little guy Michigan J Frog affectionately known as M J Frog.

And you did a great job on your avatar character, the loveable Wile E ...

I love your Bugs and Snoopy of course.

Ohhhh I do hope I can find time for this one..

Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian !!!
I am SO making some time for this this week ! Thanks Brian for hosting !

I just loved that singing frog !!! And am a huge Marvin the Martian fan too - love his strange giant dodo looking creature that lives on Mars with him.

I am determined to make time for this one this week !!

Thanks for your kind words Cyn Kid you always brighten my day, yes I actually sketched and painted my Avatar with acrylic paint, I guess is perfect for this challenge, I decided to use it when I joined Drawspace since I am always in need of HELP! ..... M J is one of my favorites also, hope you find some time to draw.

Thanks Alxolex, I am glad you like the challenges, I look forward to your drawings.


Hi Sue , I just caught your post, it's so great to see you, it's been too long, glad my friends M J and Marvin brought you around I look forward to your drawings.


Brian.

Thanks for the comments in the gallery Brian.

Well, its been raining on & off here all day so I just got stuck into the 'toons and I started with the singing frog, but while I like that contrary amphibian, I couldn't stop myself from laughing at Frisky barking at Calude and putting him on the ceiling! And as I got older I really appreciated the subleties of the efforts of Wile. E. Coyote and Sam the Sheepdog during working hours.

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

Great drawings, Sue ! I really like Sam & Wile E. The episodes with these two are still among my all time favorites !

Hi Sue,

I enjoyed going through your gallery, your toons are amazing, and Wow these drawings are fantastic, I particularly like the drawing you did also with Sam the Sheepdog and Wile E Coyote , but I think all three are outstanding, It's great to see you joining in again, thanks for the smiles.

Brian.

Hey y'all !
Here are some older doodles I dug up for this thread. Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Taz the Tazmanian Devil. Enjoy !

Alex

Sue - I love your Sam & Wil E Coyote! I adore that cartoon. I wish I could find looney tunes on tv more often, I haven't seen those on the cartoon network in years. I also LOVE the pup and the cat. That is too cute!

Alex - I love your Yosemite Sam! He's one of my fav LT characters. I also love that pose of Daffy, great job! :)

Alex I love your Daffy, and looking at Elmer Fudd and Sam just made me think of all the arguments about who was "In Season" resulting in Daffy getting his beak blown off! And your Tassie Devil is great too!

Thanks for the compliments Brian, I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist (never knew how though as it wasn't much of an industry in Oz). So I used to look at characters and break them down into basic shapes - Pluto used to be the one I drew the most. I still go by the KISS principle and look for the basic shapes, numbers and letters (or almost numbers & letters) that I can see in the drawings. Its probably not what others do but ever since I was 7 and noticed that "CoCo" the cocopops monkey had a number 5 in his ear I look for that type of thing in other cartoons.

I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with! There were so many cartoons that were his!

Oh and talking of old favourites does anyone remember the 'Fractured Fairy Tales'? They used to be on with 'Rocky & Bullwinkle' along with 'Mr Peabody & his boy Sherman' - I just loved those warped fairy tales, I am a Monty Python fan too, so this will give a little insight into my warped mind ..........ha ha ha

Hello Brian! Is the flu already gone?
Thanks for hosting again! I am always looking forward for your next challenge!
This time I will participate using one of your beautiful references...

Loved the drawings already submited here!

Regards to all and lots of fun!

Sonia.

ohhh..so very cute they are Alex, Sonia, Sue and Cyn.. I am trying this challenge as its my favorite cartoons than you Brian for hosting!

Hi all.

some really great sketches you did Alex, thanks for posting them.

Very interesting Sue, I did not realize you had a great interest in Cartooning, I hope you pursue your dreams, maybe you will consider hosting Snoopy 101 some time? I wish I had taken an interest to drawing as a kid, and started late in life, though I always loved Cartoons, I guess now I am still a kid at heart.

Thanks so much dear Sonia, I am feeling much better, what a absolute stunning drawing you did , I found it hard to take my eyes off of , it's so beautiful, your drawings are cheerful, just as you, thanks for brightening my day!

Thanks Katdyd, I always look forward to your drawings.

I decided to re-do a couple older drawings, so I apologize for not posting my original pencil sketches, and I am afraid they did not scan well, one was a gift for a friend who is a coach and I literally had to design this since I could not find a reference of Bugs on skates,

Happy drawings all,

best regards,

Brian.

Wow, Brian! These drawings of yours are professionally great!! In fact, they are really awesome!! Love them definitely!
Thank you so much for your kind words on my contribution! So glad you liked it!!

Thank you dear Kat! Waiting for your drawing...

Cheers!
Sonia.

Great pic Sonia, and such vibrant colour! Claude cat is such a great character.

I am not really that good at cartoons Brian, but anything I drew for years was very cartoony - or like a logo - nothing lifelike at all. Then when I gave up smoking I went to an art group deciding to do something about what I had always wanted to do and discovered I could actually make things look fairly realistic! It was absolutely amazing to me and I haven't done much of the simple lines of cartoon-like stuff since...........but I still like it and even get carried away and create my own every now and then.

Hi all,

Great drawings from everybody. Brian, I did not want to miss this new challenge. This is my version of Daffy Duck in “Robin Hood”.

Cheers,
Turrialba

Thank you so much, Sue!

Turrialba, your Daffy Duck is so beautiful! I also loved the colors you used!!

Cheers,
Sonia.

Thanks very much Sonia, for your kind words.

Hi Sue, by the way I also love your graphite drawings in your gallery , the Beagle is very realistic, you are very talented. I find with Cartooning it really gives us the opportunity to be creative, and can actually put a smile on , I think I enjoy that the most.

Hi Turrialba, I don't think I have ever seen Daffy this way your drawing made me laugh out loud, great job! and beautiful drawing as Sonia said, glad to see you again!!!

I have not had much time to draw this week , but thought I would show you all some of my very first Looney Tunes drawings, I was very new to drawing at the time and had never heard of coloring with photo-shop.

best wishes,

Brian.

Oh, they are so adorable, Brian! Specially Tweety, my daughter´s favorite!

my favorite cartoon character of all time pastels and charcoal and graphite..thank you for the challenge Brian

Thanks so much dear Sonia, you always cheer me up,

I think I spoke too soon

my flu seemed to have turned stomach flu, I managed to try a quick sketch and feeling very week, my quick attempt at one of the references.

I hope to be back soon,

Happy drawings,

Brian.

What a fantastic drawing Katdyd I love the color, thanks,you put a smile on!

Really?! Oh, I´m so sorry to hear that your are not feeling well again!
Maybe you need to get some pure air, take some vitamin C and do some exercise to improve your immune system! Get well soon...

Anyway, you could manage to present us another great drawing, Brian! It´s beautiful!

Kat, what a cute and colorful drawing! I like it very much!

Brian I love your drawings! Sorry to hear that as your weather improves over there you are getting crook. Hope you get over it quickly!

"Yoiks and away!" I can hear Daffy yelling that now as he tries to swing from tree to tree as Robin Hood! If I remember right Porky Pig was a disapproving Friar Tuck . Wonderful drawing of him!

Cathy, great Grinch! I have that book on my bookshelves (along with AA Milne etc) people think I am a grown up ha ha ha - the grey hair fools them all!

"Yoiks and away!" I can hear Daffy yelling that now as he tries to swing from tree to tree as Robin Hood! If I remember right Porky Pig was a disapproving Friar Tuck . Wonderful drawing of him!


Hi Sue.

Your memory is very good and I am glad you liked the drawing. In this episode, Daffy tries to convince Porky (Friar Tuck) that he is Robin Hood but of course, everything he did was a failure. For those interested, there is a full version available in You Tube, just to type "Robin Hood Daffy" or follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPt0sjn0jSw

It is excellent and it was made in 1958.
Greetings,
Turrialba

I just love all the old cartoons Turrialba. I first started to love classical music as a child - of course there was the usual Figaro and Barber of Seville that were very apparent, but Vivaldi's spring was behind the idyllic morning scenes in Sam the Sheepdog & Wile. E. Coyote, plus some of the Looney Tunes had a lot of Jazz like "The Tale of the 3 Little Pigs" who were jazz musicians and the Big Bad Wolf was always off key trying to join their group (often at the Dew Drop Inn) I just love the double level in those old cartoons, one for the children and quite blatent jokes and double entendre for the adults.

The cartoons of today are mainly shoot 'em up space cartoons or fantastic creatures etc, very few great cartoons with broad appeal anymore..........makes me wonder what happened to the wonderful sense of humour that the creators used to have.

Does anyone else remember Johnny Quest or Captain Scarlet and the Mirroids, they were two adventure types. And of course who didn't like Kimba the white Lion, Or Rocky & Bullwinkle (especially the narrator who used to argue with the cartoon characters) , even George of the Jungle. Almost all were mindless escapism for kids, now it seems that every 2nd cartoon has to have some group of children saving the world without even the benefit of the side of humour from Scooby Doo!

Oh dear..........I will have to shoot my hobby horse again...........sorry, once I get started..........

Got time to make just a couple of them, but would like to draw rest too. Guess that will be later, though.

Surely all these cartoons are really good and fun to draw.

Hello Brian!

Let me make this work more on this challenge!, Congratulations for the theme, reminded me of my childhood ... fantastic.

Greetings

Wow, 1_8! Your outline drawings are so perfect! Beautifully done!

Wosniak, what a beautiful drawing! So cheerful!

Congratulations to all of you!

Thanks Sonia, and thanks Sue, I managed to stay healthy all winter and got sick right at the end, as hard as I try, I am exposed to so many germs at work, and some times can't escape illness, I am feeling much better today.

Hi 1_8 , now how did Woody get in on this great line drawings, fantastic! great to see you!

Hi Wosniac, glad you like the challenge, very expressive drawing you did, happy and colorful, great to see you !

Thanks so much to all the participants, some really great drawings and effort going on here.


Cheers,

Brian.

Wow more wonderful cartoons !! This is becoming a terrific challenge! Love the work 1_8 and Wosniak I just love being taken back to my childhood too - great Marvin the Martian.

Hi all,

my version of " Horton"

sure was fun to sketch,


Happy drawings,

Brian.

Hello,
Wow, really great drawings everyone has!
here is my drawing of Bugs Bunny,

Click to view attachment

Brian! You don´t stop even with a flu!?!
Hope you have recovered already...
Congratulations on another beautiful drawing (Much better than the original, again!)

Gabriela, you did such a beautiful and perfect Bunny! Love it!

Thanks so much Sonia, you always brighten my day! I am feeling much better.

It's really been great to see some members I have not seen for a long time, Sue, Turrialba,1_8 , Wosniac, and now Gabriela.

I agree with Sonia, beautiful drawing you did of Bugs Gabriela.


Warm regards,

Brian

Adobeiro, bigs and Brian thanks for ur kind comments.

Always like cartoons as they are quick and fun to draw. Hope to find more time to draw more of them.

Here are two more cartoons...

Hi Brian,

I really like this one.

Turrialba

Two more great sketches 1_8 , fabulous!

Thanks for your kind words Turrialba.

Hi Brian, I don't know if I am still on time, but I am sending my contribution to this Chuck Jones Challenge. I hope you like it.

Hi kain, what a spectacular contribution to this challenge! I have been missing your toons, it's great to see you, M.J. the frog is one of my favorites,

hope all is well,

warm regards,

Brian.

Hi Brian, I know you already started a new challenge, but Bugs arrived too late. Kain.

Wow Kain, I absolutely love how you did this one, outstanding!

never too late my friend,

great to see you,


Brian.