When good artists draw bad things

[Baar Baar Jinx]

We all make mistakes from time to time. So, in that spirit, this thread is to highlight the occasional graphical faux pas that even the most talented Disney artists make. To start off with ...


There's no way the clerk can bend his arm that way unless his forearm is a quarter of the length of his upper arm! (William Van Horn, No Room for Human Error)

[rasterax]

Also for the "strange covers" thread maybe. How'd that make it past editors?

[RobbK1]

Apr 12, 2018 7:39:45 GMT rasterax said:

Also for the "strange covers" thread maybe. How'd that make it past editors?The Nephew on the right is WAY too small to be so close to the front, and thnephew farthest away in the background, should be, at least slightly smaller than his brother in the foreground.  I've had that book since it was first released in 1959, and I never noticed that before your bringing it up.  Amazing!

[drleevezan]

From Barks' classic Lost in the Andes:


As you can see, the title should be on the other side of the book.

[Matilda]

Apr 11, 2018 15:39:00 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

We all make mistakes from time to time. So, in that spirit, this thread is to highlight the occasional graphical faux pas that even the most talented Disney artists make. To start off with ...


There's no way the clerk can bend his arm that way unless his forearm is a quarter of the length of his upper arm! (William Van Horn, No Room for Human Error)

Van Horn's dognoses do not actually have a humanoid skeletal structure. They are animated Gumby's. (I can't write "Gumbies" because those are sandals or something.)

[RobbK1]

Apr 12, 2018 14:04:14 GMT RobbK1 said:

Apr 12, 2018 7:39:45 GMT rasterax said:

Also for the "strange covers" thread maybe. How'd that make it past editors?The Nephew on the right is WAY too small to be so close to the front, and thnephew farthest away in the background, should be, at least slightly smaller than his brother in the foreground.  I've had that book since it was first released in 1959, and I never noticed that before your bringing it up.  Amazing!

Actually, I now seem to remember reading that this wasn't Barks' error, but The Editors decided to shrink Barks' drawn image, to place the now tiny Nephew in front of Scrooge.  I assume that Barks originally drew him further back, and at Scrooge's left side.

[Fritz]

Apr 26, 2018 6:08:29 GMT RobbK1 said:

Apr 12, 2018 14:04:14 GMT RobbK1 said:

Actually, I now seem to remember reading that this wasn't Barks' error, but The Editors decided to shrink Barks' drawn image, to place the now tiny Nephew in front of Scrooge.  I assume that Barks originally drew him further back, and at Scrooge's left side.

inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++23-00

The scans there from Brazil (PD 386) and Sweden (KA1962-27) were revised to make them less "off", but that doesn't say anything about the original.  I wouldn't be surprised if Robb is right on this one.

Of course, it could also be that even the Master had bad days when deadline pressure was looming.

[Deleted]

Apr 11, 2018 15:39:00 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

We all make mistakes from time to time. So, in that spirit, this thread is to highlight the occasional graphical faux pas that even the most talented Disney artists make. To start off with ...


There's no way the clerk can bend his arm that way unless his forearm is a quarter of the length of his upper arm! (William Van Horn, No Room for Human Error) Actually,that is from The Pauper’s Glass.

[RobbK1]

Apr 12, 2018 19:55:55 GMT drleevezan said:

From Barks' classic Lost in the Andes:


As you can see, the title should be on the other side of the book.

Maybe the book is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Eblaite, Canaanite, Phonecian, Arabic, Himyaritic, Farsi, Old Turkish (using adapted Arabic-style script) VERY, ancient Greek, or any other language that reads from right to left.  Do you believe that Donald is not capable of reading one of those languages?

And Van Horn was making a joke by demonstrating "human error" by making the man's forearm too short. 

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Scrooge's sideburns here seem off, shorter than normal ... when I first saw this cover, I thought this story was supposed to be set in the past, with a younger Scrooge (although that wouldn't be compatible with present-day HD&L), or that his trimmed sideburns would somehow be integral to the story.