Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Books &Disney &walk cycle 08 Oct 2009 08:28 am
How To Draw Chip & Dale
- In the past I’ve posted the series of booklets that Disney released via the Art Corner at Disneyland. How To Draw Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto have been posted. The only one left is How To Draw Chip & Dale. Thanks to Bill Peckmann, I can post this last booklet.
The past booklets I posted were actually rereleased publications that were stapled together and handed out at the Lincoln Center celebration for all things Disney back in 1973.
This Chip & Dale book, however, is the real thing. It was an original published in 1955.
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This is the inner cover which iss a thin cardboard.
as opposed to the yellow pages of paper.
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The directions tell you to flip the pages to see the movement.
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However this page is printed on the back of page 15,
and it’s impossible to flip. It doesn’t matter since the two drawings
aren’t registered to each other and flipping doesn’t work.
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This page appears in all of the booklets.
Here’s a QT of the walk cycle on pg 12.
Chip cycle on threes.
Click left side of the black bar to play.
Right side to watch single frame.
Go here to see the lecture series posts:
Mickey / Donald / Goofy / Pluto
Here to see How To Draw Mickey.
Here to see How To Draw Donald.
Here to see How To Draw Pluto.
Here to see How To Draw Goofy (Jenny Lerew‘s Blackwing Diaries.)
I once pointed out that a good walk should be drawn
with the two feet a distance apart from each other.
This creates a sense of depth in that walk. You might look
for this when you see other walks on line. You’ll be
surprised at how many professionals do it and how many
beginners don’t. Lately the latter is beating the former.
on 08 Oct 2009 at 9:42 am 1.bill said …
I love this stuff!
Why don’t they still sell books like this in the Disney theme parks?
on 08 Oct 2009 at 11:08 am 2.Mark Mayerson said …
I think these drawings are by Bill Justice.
on 08 Oct 2009 at 11:18 am 3.Michael said …
That was my guess as well, Mark. The walk cycle makes me more confident about it.
on 09 Oct 2009 at 6:47 am 4.Larry Levine said …
Fun images!!!
on 09 Oct 2009 at 9:08 pm 5.Tom Sito said …
The question is not How to Draw Chip & Dale. The question is Why..?
on 10 Oct 2009 at 6:21 pm 6.Jenny said …
Now, Tom..!
I have to say that as a kid I thought the C&D cartoons were kind of unengaging, but I do think their design is appealing(oh, that word!) and it sure is fun to watch them move. Lovely drawings here as per usual for this series.
OT: my favorite Chip n’ Dale memory is being accosted by them as a teenager at Disneyland, in their walk-around incarnations. Even though I knew they couldn’t speak I couldn’t blurting out to one of them “and which one are you? Without missing a beat he held up two fingers.
on 10 Oct 2009 at 6:45 pm 7.bhaaluu said …
Thank you SO very much for posting this booklet! It is the first one I’ve seen that is complete. Thanks also for the How To Draw Mickey/Goofy/Pluto booklets, even though they were from the Lincoln Center handouts. Thanks for everything you do!
on 11 Oct 2009 at 7:37 pm 8.Thad said …
I have to say that the timing and movement in those C&D pictures used to really annoy the hell out of me before I moved to Ithaca. Now that I’ve been able to see more of these little chipmunk bastards move in real life regularly, I really think those animators nailed their character. If that makes any sense.
on 22 Mar 2010 at 5:55 pm 9.leona said …
this is a really good tutorial or demonstration of how to draw chip & dale i’ve waited for so long for someone to do an easy demonstration like this… =)
on 20 Jun 2012 at 11:29 pm 10.Richard Sloan said …
It’s terrific of you to show all of the “How to Draw” books. A friend of mine has all but “Mickey,” and I have the “Mickey” one, which I recv’d as a gift in Dec. of 1956. I have seen his, and they are just like mine. So I have to offer a correction regarding the year they were sold. The one you show a cover for has an orange border on the side, and the cover sketch is black & white. That can’t be a 1956 product, as we both have books with green borders on the side and the cover sketches are black and beige, not white. Since I know the dte my “Mickey” was purchased, Ican speak authoratatively about this. The orange ones were done later. Currently there are two such orange ones being offeed on ebay. (P.S. Between the ages of 12 and 18 I dreamed of working for Disney, as an animator. But I realized I really didn’t have the talent for it so I steered myself to a career in TV as a freelance cameraman and then as a staff audio engineer at ABC-TV. When Disney bought ABC, I became a Disney employee! As such (and now as a Disney retiree), it’s nice to get the big employee discts. and free admission to the parks. So my dream did come true, in a manner of speaking!
on 21 Jun 2012 at 12:35 am 11.Michael said …
Richard,
I’m pleased you got so much out of this post. Those books certainly made an impression on a lot of us back then. I often wonder what is giving the younger generation the same connections. I’m sure it’s something we wouldn’t even notice.
on 24 Mar 2014 at 10:58 am 12.sneha said …
these r just superb and fantastic
on 18 May 2014 at 1:07 pm 13.Royal Cavanah said …
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on 16 Aug 2014 at 10:44 am 14.Shadow said …
I think you forget to mention the difference between Chip and Dales mouth and teeth. It’s not just the size of muzzle and nose.
Still … amazing it is. As a kid, I had no idea how to draw them, as I could not tell what’s the difference between them was, so I didn’t even try.
on 13 Jul 2015 at 4:39 pm 15.yassen said …
The was so good
on 31 Jul 2020 at 3:12 pm 16.Nicole said …
I actually have an original of this book that was handed down from my mom. Love it!