Backstage Bancy - Making a cel painting of Toby Ratwaller and Jordan!

CREATED on Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 10:36am EST

Hello, Animation Fans of Blogspot/Blogger!

I'm Here on This Post to talk about how I made a cel painting of Toby Ratwaller and Jordan!

For the first step, I made a pencil sketch of Toby and Jordan onto a sheet of 12-field (10-1/2 inches by 12-1/2 inches)ACME-punched animation paper in a blend of BLUE Col-Erase pencils for the "rough" sketch lines and the Palomino "Blackwing" pencils to tie it down! ("Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed") For the Second Step, I placed a clean sheet of acetate called a "cel" over the rough sketch and I hand-traced it in ink, this time, with a black Sharpie permanent marker since my OLD Rapidograph/KOH-I-NOOR technical pen is all dried up!

For the third step, I've turned the acetate cel over and painted it on the reverse side like always, of course, with Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl acrylic animation paints!!! (notice the Acme peg holes!)

Even though this cel was left "unfinished" on December 15th, 2015, I finally managed to complete the cel painting just in the nick of time! (Notice the Acme pegbar!) While the rest of the Cel-Vinyl paint is drying, I managed to paint a background onto a sheet of 11-inch by 14-inch inch Bristol board using Cel-Vinyl acrylic animation paints for the colors and a Faber-Castell ink pen for the outlines in the style of 1961-era Disney Animation (or Hanna-Barbera background painter Art Lozzi?) of a park landscape with grass, blue skies, a pine tree and a regular tree!

And, after the background paint is all dried up onto the sheet of bristol board, I've placed the finished inked-and-painted cel, after drying hours, on top of the background and it looked perfect! (notice the Acme peg holes!) And, yes, I  did manage to place this cel with background set up in its own 11-inch by 14-inch frame! I'm Glad that I've finally completed this cel painting for 2-1/2 months!

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Yours Sincerely

MICHAEL "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O
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