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Figure drawings from Go Figure, a pop up life drawing event hosted by Nick Sung, focusing on pushing (leaning!!) the figure in the Tom Gately/Walt Stanchfield school of thought. Incredibly fun and refreshing! Nice to push my drawing limits. Image description in alt text.
5 images
1) "LOUISE" (2021) by directors Constance BERTOUX, Camille BOZEC, Pauline GUITTON, Pauline MAUVIERE, Mila MONAGHAN
2) Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000)
3) J.R.R Tolkien (1892-1973)
4) Celine Kim (visual development artist)
5) Various character designs by Britanny Myers
Bad Drawing and Collecting Life Reference
July 21, 2025
"...You should strive for a release from the live-action-ness of the model and extract from it, not what it is, but what it is doing..." Walt Stanchfield, Gesture Drawing for Animation, Chapter 6: Pushing the Gesture
I've heard that the first part of dealing with an addiction is admitting to it.
Hi. My name is Mandy Rose. I am addicted to sketchbooks I never use, art supplies I use even less, drawing and writing books, and most of all, figure drawing reference.
Maybe you laugh. I assure you, this is not an exaggeration.
I haunt Art Station, checking faithfully every morning (sometimes several times a day if I'm bored) for new packs that look interesting, things I might want in the future, and the holy grail of all of it, the 70% off sale that occurs several times a year. Over the past decade I've collected so many references that I'm going to need an external hard drive to store them all in the very very near future, sooner if I continue the way I've been going lately.
I don't know why I do this. Maybe I'm the undiagnosed neurodivergent I've been told I am. I think there's something about the human figure that fascinates me endlessly. If I never drew anything but people ever again, I would never be bored. And every time I get a new reference pack, the potential of what I can do with it in the future and what I can draw makes me giddy. It's MINE! All MINE!
The irony is that real people terrify me. So my obsession with them is kind of bizzare.
I love exploring the interaction between people and animals. This is an old portfolio piece from my super-realism days.
Now, only a few years later, I'm doing this.
My obsession isn't shocking, really. My artist "idols" growing up were Vermeer, Norman Rockwell, Arthur Rackham and Alphonse Mucha. I've recently discovered Eugen von Blas and the pre-Raphaelites. People in pictures don't scare me. They don't have strange rules that I'm constantly running through without realizing. I'm not awkward around them. They don't say and do things that confuse me; they don't get mad when I say something that's perfectly normal in my mind but goes against one (or many) of their unspoken rules, those miserable rules that they all seem to know instinctively somehow, but I can't grasp. People in pictures make SENSE.
Even when they look like this.
Great scott. I think I better go do some more drawing.
i exist and i love you
“We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out, the better.”― Walt Stanchfield
Not all artists are born with obvious talent—and even those who are still have to hone it, working and practicing every day. They create thousands of rough, imperfect pieces along the way, and that’s exactly how they become better over time.
Your work is not bad—it’s becoming. Every artist we admire has stood exactly where you’re standing, convinced they weren’t good enough. But art isn’t about perfection; it’s about growth, courage, and the way you see the world—something no one else can replicate. Keep creating, keep exploring, and let your ‘not good enough’ become the reason you get better, not the reason you stop.
Obscure Animation Subject #218: Uncle Walt
Kicking off season 4 is what was a previously lost short film made by Disney fan and retired animator, Robert Swarthe, back when he was a student at UCLA Animation Workshop in 1964.
This underground short film is about Mickey and Minnie Mouse battling black cannibals, murderous Arabs, and falling outhouses. Their demise leads to a hallucinatory sequence filled with references to various early Disney works.
This film was infamous due to being lost media for years, until 2026 when Unckie NPC uploaded the short on YouTube and the Internet Archive after holding on to a 16mm copy he obtained in February 2025. There was a rumor that animators at Disney produced the short in 1954, but was debunked. Prior to being uploaded online, the short was last publicly seen at American Film Institute, as part of a presentation titled "50 Years of American Animation" in 1972.
Thunderbean had previously obtained a copy to get released on Public Domain Mouse Adventures! blu-ray, but was later excluded in August 2024 as a result of legal threats from Swarthe, who did not want the short released to the public. Unckie NPC initially agreed to withhold uploading the short until Stanchfield could get Swarthe to change his mind and have the short released. But after holding onto it for some time, and having found out that Stanchfield made no progress with Swarthe, Unckie NPC fell out with Stanchfield and decided to upload it in January 2026.
I will have to say that the search for this film and it getting released to the public is a crazy story in it of itself, but what about the film in question? It’s very incoherent, I don’t know what was even going on. The Perri reference at the beginning made me laugh though, and I guess the animation itself isn’t bad for a single person. But goodness, it was just crazy and demented. Though to be fair, it did foreshadow what Disney has become in recent years, so I will give it that.
Figure drawings from Go Figure, a pop up life drawing event hosted by Nick Sung, focusing on pushing (leaning!!) the figure in the Tom Gately/Walt Stanchfield school of thought. Incredibly fun and refreshing! Nice to push my drawing limits. Image description in alt text.
“It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be young, to continue growing – not to settle and accept.”
– Walt Stanchfield, Drawn To Life
sketches from the zoo pt. 1!!
i fell in love with live drawing!! i want to do it more often for sure!!
Hey guys, just got back from my longest hiatus, but here’s my post from my last visit to the opening reception of the art show at the Salem Arts Association, Rebirth/Refresh/Renew, but it’s ending tomorrow at 12:00 Noon till 4:00. There’s me with my buddy, Tim Brown, but there’s also my paintings that I’ve done en plein air! See you guys next show!!
Hey guys, just got back from my longest hiatus, but here’s my post from my last visit to the opening reception of the art show at the Salem Arts Association, Rebirth/Refresh/Renew, but it’s ending tomorrow at 12:00 Noon till 4:00. There’s me with my buddy, Tim Brown, but there’s also my paintings that I’ve done en plein air! See you guys next show!!
#161: Birds, Amphibians, and Reptiles
30 minute class mode via Line-of-Action.
Ready, Get set.....
Gesture tips from Students Spring 2017
Gesture Drawing Tips
ShaNel R.
https://shanelsartcorner.tumblr.com/post/161808280536/httpsenshistockdeviantartcomartmale-rope-pac
David G.
https://gesture-flaminghorse.tumblr.com/
Wyatt C.
https://backgroundczech.tumblr.com/post/161828356009
Theo F. https://tcsbigblog.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=9ekVq1wBAAA.rycfGJ3LVkASkR9Uqj70kP773h49RkhZ7560IbrXWnlpYxUCwoxtQGsK8gZrHKJZLXc944BBeUBD3PxSZrEAcA.f-yuqa8LsM4JIgdlSiRaag&postId=6503033730917615421&type=POST
Bryan K. http://bryankisslinggesture.blogspot.com/
Patrick R https://ultrareclaimer.tumblr.com/
Justis Smith https://aijustis.tumblr.com/
Stephen's tumblr
This student site has many advanced gesture drawings. http://furcoat1840.tumblr.com/
