Milt Gross Study: Doc and Ugly Lady

I like very much the characters of Milt Gross, they are very appealing and visualy interesting. It reminds me the drawings from another genius cartoonist, Guillermo Divito.


Verbal Analysis:
-All flows through line of action.
- BIG Head!
- Short legs
- Little body
- Little eyes
-Eyes have slightly diferent directions
-There's lots of space inside the head
- The smile is higher than the eyes.
- Big collar and straight, in contrast to the curved shapes
- BIG Tie
- Little hat with a complex and very interesting shape
- The features that sticks out make and interesting silhouette



- Defined Line of Action
- Big Head
- Big Chest
- Skinny legs

Head:
- eyes occupy a small portion within the head
- One eye is slightly bigger than the other and they don't follow the direction of the head (this is very subtle)
- broad forehead
- Big nose
- Big chin
- The ear doesn't have the tipical cartoony ear shape.
- Some features sticks out making an interesting silhouette.
- LOTS of negative space inside the head.


I think next I will try some of my characters using the things I've learned here. Sometimes I have "happy accidents" in which I'm close to achieving the appealing of Milt Gross characters and I think doing these studies, I realize that these characters have things in common that make them look like this.

Funny Milt Gross Cat!

Verbal Analysis:

- Very curvy LOA!!!
- Thin body
-Clear sillhouette
-Big eyes
-Big Tounge
-Big down lip
-large head, it flows with a curve.
-Big smile behind the eyes.
-Not much inside neg. space.
-Lots of out. neg. space.
-Ears points in diferent directions
-Asymetrical Tail and body
-short legs, the toes points up
-muzzle and nose points up
-Irregular furrSo, here's my attempt. I wanted to give it some cosntruction. It's difficult to maintain the energy of Gross drawings.

Trying to apply the things that I learned :)