The First Realistic TV cartoons

It's funny that the very first so-called "realistic" cartoons were drawn better than everything that came after.I mean, they're still stiff as hell, but at least they had some solidity and a bit of design.Probably because they used actual comic artists to draw them and didn't try to animate them.In the production process that came later, they would just design the realistic characters on model

Larry MacDougall

Here's some excellent "illustrative art" to contrast with all the great cartoony art I admire.I don't know who this is exactly. I just stumbled on his work through links at commenters' blogs.I love his compositions, his poses, his design sense - and especially his trees. He has a nice combination of style and observation.I'd say this is draftsmanship on a much higher level than what most