Doug drawings Exercises 01-Roger mocking Doug Part 01 PRELUDE

After hearing in Late March 2025 about the controversies regarding OpenAI's then-recent addition of making a somewhat accurate take on Ghibli art while also pissing off Hayao Miyazaki greatly, as well as hearing that "X" introduced a feature that let users edit photos already posted,

My ANTI-AI tools Sentiment is now at an All Time High-Octane High.

But instead of ranting against companies refusing to take responsibility for disrespecting Miyazaki's viewpoints because INVESTORS, 

Let's vent using Jim Jinkins' logic....

BY DRAWING....... by hand that is.

How's about several rounds of Drawing Exercises using DOUG!!!

And because 2026 is the year of DOUG.

Why?

Because it's the 35th Anniversary since DOUG's premiere on Nickelodeon in 1991

&

30 years since DOUG's Disney Debut....

So let's do this exercise:

This drawing above is based off a scene from the 1991 episode of Nickelodeon's DOUG called DOUG CAN'T DIG IT.

(Though the drawing erroneously assumed it was from DOUG DIDN'T DO IT.)

The scene depicts Roger Klotz complimenting DOUG for appearing on a stage play directed by his sister Judy Funnie....because it got him out of a Math Test.

One of the defining moments of ROGER being friendly towards DOUG since the beginning of the NICKELODEON ERA.

For those who are wondering what the scene looks like originally, 

here's a VLC Screenshot from my AMAZON DVD.......

The whole point of the exercise was to redraw the scene but use the cleaner designs of the characters from Season 3 of the Nick Version or Season 6 of the Disney Version.....

But the exercise is that despite using cleaner designs of said Seasons, We still need to retain the original outfits from the Nick Version such as the lines on Doug's Sweater-Vest Collar and Roger's original bacon haircut.

No, I did not place a piece of paper in front of my ASUS Monitor or my WACOM ONE Tablet display and then merely trace the scene.

The idea was for me to draw by observing the screenshot from my Monitor while drawing on my portable easel.

As you can see from the drawing way at the top, I accidentally made Doug's Head a little smaller than what the screenshot implies.

I'll fix that up when I do the digital drawing.

Though I did nail Roger's Season 3 Nick Series face pretty well.

Though this scene had Roger with his Bacon Hair a bit more stiff.

I based the more Wavy Pattern from this screenshot below which is from the 1993 episode

DOUG THROWS A PARTY.

So until part 02, let me leave this post with a Scene of DOUG dressed as the late BOB ROSS

"And yes, even the late BOB ROSS says that REAL HUMAN ARTISTS are superior."