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Woman from 2015 / January 13, 2020 by Don Shank

2015 - Acrylic on Paper - 12in x 16in

Painting drawing, painting, acrylic, 2015, woman February 08, 2020

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I found some xeroxes in my garage of old background layouts I did for @arkansassugarpants cartoon "Max and the Pigeon Incident" back in 1998. (26 years ago?!) #background #animationbackground #2danimation #handdrawnanimation

Costume idea from 2022
#disneyland #smallworld #halloweencostume

Proto-Wilma 2022
#procreate #flintstones

Bullfighter Harlequin Artist??? Something random from 2019

Early Embers
Here’s a few wild very early takes on Ember. Trying some fireworks looks, and also wondering if we could get away with no clothes.
#elemental #elementalmovie #pixarelemental #pixar #ember

Farm Building
Here’s an idea for an Earth building bringing the farm into the big city. This idea came about too late to find a meaningful place in the story so I had to reconfigure the idea to be a vertical farm. Here you can see it in the &ld

Element City
This drawing was to help find the level of caricature to the scale of the buildings. It was done over a flexible model that Philip Metschan built of our city using real world scale. The buildings and features of my drawing is too big and

The Fireplace
#elemental #pixarelemental #pixarelementalmovie #fireplace #pixar

Portrait of a Lonely Boy
I was going for a Marie Laurencin vibe. The layout drawing was a back and forth between myself and @petesohn18 , painting by me.
#elemental #pixar #pixarelemental #elementalmovie #marielaurencin #lonelyboy

Sticking with the early stuff. Here’s a silly idea where the city park is in the shape of a periodic table, but it ended up sticking. In this take each element had sort of a themed area and the trees were elemental too with air trees being thes

One of my earliest drawings, a lineup of Fireland homes that was the culmination of a series of sketches that followed how fire characters would build shelter. I started with a “cave-fire-person” and worked up to this. The director @petes

This was one of my first drawings on Elemental done over 6 years ago. In this version the city was heavily inspired by chemistry sets. We thought a chemistry set would relate to all the elements and be a place where all elements belonged.
I hope you

I did some talking today! #elemental #pixarelemental #pixar

Pescheria Marcovaldo. This one is a heartbreaker. There was a long period of time where scenes took place in here. But in the final movie the doors aren't even open. This is one of my favorite drawings from my time on Luca but it wasn't meant to be.

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