Ollie Johnston's Ichabod

I recently found this low res photo online of Ollie Johnston as he is animating a scene with Johnny Appleseed. Behind him, pinned on a board are a couple of sheets showing sketches of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. Ollie would work on those characters next, as would his colleague Frank Thomas. 

But it was Ward Kimball who drew these early development sketches. Incidentally I posted scans of the originals way back in 2012.

At that time Amid Amidi, who has been working on Ward Kimball's autobiography, left an interesting note regarding these Kimball design sketches.

Here is a Ichabod drawing from a scene by Ollie.

Here is the link to the earlier Ichabod post:

https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/11/ichabod.html

Frank Thomas' Lady

A beautiful character layout sketch of Lady is being offered currently at Heritage Auctions. Frank Thomas drew this lovely pose of Lady as he was planing the scene. The size of the character, the camera fielding etc.

Her concerning attitude is toward Jock and Trusty. Lady explains her hurt feelings when her human owners start to treat her differently than before. A baby is on its way.

As you can see here, Frank worked on his drawings in order to get the right emotion while defining the proper anatomy of a cocker spaniel. Absolutely Beautiful!