Ok, so hello everyone - where to begin - this is something I have been wanting to do for about 8 years.

Yup.  8, Years. 

At a certain point I noticed I was becoming an outsider looking in, meaning work wasn't necessarily coming my way - though my skill level was beyond on point.

So I had a choice to make - would I sit and cry or start really asking myself why do I love specific things.  At first - I had to go back to Post Modern Architecture, which I later found out was .. (lets just call it 'pomo')  what I was taking in when I was so young.   I always wondered why all this stuff around me FELT SO GOOD.

But later in life after life happened and fallings out and all that jazz happened - I began to take a huge L.

A big L.

I deliberately chose to live with my mom - almost 30 - to do nothing but focus on my craft.

Pathetic to most. All my friends from high school and even the same people I worked with in the industry were climbing and climbing and I was just not being reached out to.  But my mind was set.  And I had to know - WHAT DID I LOVE ABOUT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP?? 

The warmth  is what stood out.

More tangible

Something concrete.   A gift.

And to me it was the 90s and the early 2000s.

So I investigated into it.  And I will get into some buildings I like and why I like them to explain to you all why I think how I think - there are plenty on Zillow I can try to find and bring up some posts at a time.  But as I describe them, you will see how my mind thinks.

Bear with me, on this site there will be the Joy of Drawing.  But you need to know that I sat and watched for  8 years this industry.

And why do I bring up architecture??  

Because you see the 'handwriting of the architect in everything all the way down to corners of buildings, how light comes in, to how things feel, to how you enter a space - from beginning to end - from drafting (which we will all get into) all the way to the final that got revised OVER AND OVER again until the house was made.

That handwriting - is key.  Sure its a developed thing.  But your own can develop by watching even before you lay down a sketch.

You know what you like.  Just like the little kid in elementary school would look at buildings and say 'I love how that feels.' That kid was me, but it was stuck in me.  Its in alot of you guys too.

You have to go and look it up or simply ask Gemini.  

Because archictecture is one of the only sober mediums that provides a creative outlet.  They are still making fresh stuff.  On Zillow I have seen so many million dollar homes - NOT TO BE VAIN - but to see how these Artisans commissioned to work on them got to craft some of these kick ass sprawling places.  There are thousands of homes like that that I love to see, from shacks to mansions.  I love to see that.

And I love the 90s homes.  They are so warm.  So not like now.   

I sat and watched many things in animation happen since then - the 90s.  I've seen many opportunities for things to make great things - well we all are - you are the choir.

So here is my plan.  I'm going to just draw and talk about houses to you guys.

I will take original drawings you may or may not be familiar with.  Then I will do my version.  And I may, or may not explain it all the time as to why something I did in the drawing - but I will most times always say something.

I'm not edging you guys.  With me... you Will learn something - I'm SATURATED IN WARMTH AND PASSION (thanks to the 90s ~).   I look forward to it.   

So first thing is first is Tramp from Lady and the Tramp.

I got this image from Deja's post here:  https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2011/07/tramp.html

notice I zoomed in twice, I want you to see this lovely drawing Milt did,

and even below its like that blue line is like gloss, likes slick and fluffy.

I ALWAYS loved that drawing because of that smile.  You feel it - you feel from mouth to eyebrow.

and that little note on the right side of the muzzle, it stretches outward // and yet the other side is flat - not like his left side.  That contrast is what adds Appeal.  

I mean you gotta also love how he hadd the blue see-through of the entire face.

Something I was never able to master or get my head around, I liked being free. However when I studied his work, I saw a glimpse of why drawings like these from Disney during that era feel so good.

In my drawing what I went for was taking Modern things we have been fortunate to have at our disposal.

There have been many draftsman over the years, even during Milt's time.  But my emphasis is on Shape Language, Intent and Clarity - just to name some.

I keep wanting to call him Pongo, I've only watched this movie like several times when little.  But my goal were those ears and Carving in that nose.  First starting with the outward part of the nose - see how it looks like a much harsher shape than above.  There are planes - the bottoms, the part that is a V shape help anchor that muzzle on both sides.

We need that in order for like I said earlier in Milt's earlier drawing for Tramp's right muzzle to be more pronouce, and when its more pronounce it looks like he's??? Grinning ~

Follow that line of that muzzle on his right (the one closest to his eye) - then look opposite muzzle?

Notice how they match?

And where does your inner kid want to look next?  Those eyelids, those eyebrows, 

and lastly, and warmly, those warm eyes looking at whatever he is looking at lol.

Notice something funny else ?

My shapes dont make since on Tramp's eyes, but they work.  Because you have have to feel that smile - but also you know why - its because he is a Mutt in the movie.  So I did my best to make Him sgraggly.