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
P.S., IF Any Comments after This Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

More Cel Paintings for Kelsey for July 2015

CREATED on Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 at 10:20 P.M.

Dear Animation Lovers of My Blogger Page,

I Have to Confess about SOME COMMISSION for My Brother's Girlfriend, Kelsey Ilene-Cummings,...

...Kelsey wanted a Cel Painting of Ariel from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" for her roommate at her new apartment and, before I'll start working on THAT CEL, I Did start with a FREE GIFT for Kelsey to go with her roommate's cel of "Ariel", this time, of Mike Patterson and Michelle Finkle (two of my original cartoon creations) in "Archie Comics" form but at the Mouser City beach in Mouser City, Missouri, U.S.A. which "Mouser City, Missouri" is actually made up in my creative-yet-cartoony imagination! (see iOS picture below for "animator's sake"!)

My FREE GIFT for Kelsey Ilene-Cummings (A Cel Painting of Mike and Michelle in
"Archie Comics" form at the Beach) as a FREE companion to go with her
apartment roommate's $20 cel painting commission of Ariel from "The Little Mermaid"
(notice the background behind the characters is actually done in a well-blended combination of
Faber-Castell black PITT artist pen for the outlines, color pencils (BROWN for the sandy landscape
LIGHT GREEN for the grass, YELLOW and RED for the sunshine) and Art Markers
(RED for the "red stripe" part of the lighthouse, YELLOW for the "yellow light" at the light house,
BLUE for the water and the small clouds and GREEN for the bushes surrounding the light house
and other bushes ready-planted side-by-side of the sandy entrance to the light house!)

I Did Start the Cel Painting of "Archie Comic"-style Mike and Michelle at the beach with the outline sketch of the background (shown in color above) then I placed a clean sheet of 12-Field ACME-Punched animation paper over the background sketch done in Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen ink and, well, I drew the rough drawings of Michelle's "Archie Comic" design in BLUE Col-Erase Pencil for the construction outline using the "full body" part of the "Betty Cooper" chapter of my MINT copy of the "Learn to Draw Archie and Friends" book and, well, after using my Blackwing pencil ("Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed") to tie down the construction outlines for both Mike (east) and Michelle (west) after finishing the "BLUE rough construction lines" for Mike and then, I placed a clear acetate sheet called a "cel" over the finished drawing and, yes, I traced the outlines onto the acetate sheet using a crow-quill fountain pen filled with BLACK opaque, acetate-adhering India Ink and, after the ink is all dried up on the front of the acetate cel, I turned it over and painted it on the back of the cel using different colors of "animator's quick-drying vinyl house paints" (Actually, Cartoon Colour's top-quality "Cel-Vinyl" acrylic paints!!!) starting from Mike to Michelle and, well, after the paint is dried up on the back of the cel I colored the background using a blend of color pencils and art markers and, finally, the finished "free gift" for Kelsey is finally completed at last, well, to go with her roommate's $20 cel commission of Ariel from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" that is!

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Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL "Mooter" AARON MA'ATUA IGAFO-TE'O

Founder, President, CEO, Hand-Drawn Animation Lover

and Animator with Autism at "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios"

P.S., See You in August 2015 but IF Any Comments about This Cel, Please Let Me Hear from You!