Tinkerbell model sheet

Tinker Bell Model Sheet

This year for the D23 Expo , I was asked to be part of an artist signing for the "Art of Tink" exhibit. I knew I would be signing lithos of my work, but also thought I might need to bone up on my...

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Marc Davis was the most prolific and versatile artist I have ever met. He never saw himself as only an animator, he was an artist first. And to him that meant exploring art in many different ways. His Fine Art alone shows such variety that I often thought, how can one man master all these styles and approaches? There wasn't a medium Marc didn't enjoy. Painting in oil, watercolor, or gouache. He drew with pen and ink, charcoal and pastels. Realistic depictions or abstract experiments, his…

We all know that Tinker Bell is primarily the creation of Marc Davis. But several other artists explored her character's design as well, including story men like J.P.Miller and Joe Rinaldi. Milt Kahl drew these poses based on earlier research, and the only differences to the final model I can detect have to do with her hair style and the length of her legs. They are drawn a little shorter in this version. Marc's definitive model sheet of Tinker Bell shows perfect proportions in her figure as…

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