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Published: 2019-06-12 23:36:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 18843; Favourites: 517; Downloads: 18
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Here's a quick sketch of these two that I coloured digitally to capture my vision of how they might or might not appear in a possible reboot, before their final look is revealed. I rather like Gos with those huge, expressive eyes. Drake has to keep his ugly sweater of course, disposing of it would be a crime. I admit, I have currently no idea how he can move from the quite tasteful checkered shirt he wears in "The Duck Knight Returns!" to his square pink shirt/sweater vest-combo, but let's see what the future DuckTales-episodes or the like will bring us. 
"Darkwing Duck"/"Drake Mallard" and "Gosalyn Mallard-Waddlemeyer" © Disney
Graphite pencil and Photoshop / 2019
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I really wish they would make a reboot about Darkwing Duck like they did with Ducktales
nice idea ^^
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Stii~iiill can't get accustomed to the new style. Don't get me wrong, it is a cute pic, but somehow..just..no. Sorry.
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I cannot wait to see Gosalyn again after all these years. She always been my little heroine.
❤️
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I already was in a state of hysteria when I saw Drake on screen and I can only imagine what will happen to my poor heart when Gos appears for the first time after so many years.
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I think Brandy's voice would do a good Gosalyn
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Who's Brandy, pray tell?
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She's from Brandy and Mr whiskers
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Thank you, hon. 
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I wonder who'll be the voice of Gosalyn. Anyone got any thoughts who?
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Not really, but I'm not well-versed in the current voice actors and actresses.
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I would figure Akwafina, since she can pull off Gosalyn's attitude. Sorry for the delay.
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Great work on this picture. Much like my friend I have an idea how they could have introduce Gosalyn to the show.
1. Huey, Dewey, and Louie met her (Prior to the events of the first episode) during an interschool sports competition and became fast friends. Her grandfather worked for Taurus Bulba (who would be a mix of Lex Luthor and the Kingpin, a ruthless business man by day, ruthless crime boss by night.) However Professor Waddlemeyer learn that Taurus had secretly modified his inventions behind his back and planned to sell them including the Ramrod to FOWL. He stole all his blueprint and sabotage his the Ramrod.
However this didn't go unnoticed and Taurus sent server henchmen after him. Leading to car chase that resulted in Professor Waddlemeyer's death. After The Duck Knight Returns! episode, Scrooge and the family goes to St. Canard for business meeting with Taurus Bulba. Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby and Gosalyn learn he is planning on something big and evil. Darkwing/Drake also stumbles on Taurus Bulba's scheme.
I also had this idea for a episode, it's a reworking of Sports Goofy in Soccermania with Gosalyn taking Goofy's place.
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Yeah. Have to admit those DO sound like entertaining ideas.
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REALLY good job on this pic. And, yeah, it IS only a matter of time before Gosalyn makes an appearance - either in DuckTales itself or in a spin-off series.
Preferably the former (though we might have to wait until the third season for THAT since we are already more than halfway through season two) BEFORE they move on to the latter (presumably airing at the same time as DuckTales Season FOUR).
Of course, one has to wonder HOW they are going to introduce Gosalyn, Here are a few possibilities:
1. As a classmate to Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby who has a SHUSH scientist for a grandfather (who also happens to be an old friend of Webby's grandmother). This would have the advantage of us (as well as Drake and Launchpad) actually getting to know Professor Waddlemeyer when he is actually still alive (basically letting us get to see a bit of Professor Waddlemeyer's character for a few episodes before he is killed off [so his death has a bit more impact] and Drake/Darkwing ends up adopting Gosalyn fifty percent out of getting a chance to bond with her while he and Launchpad are bodyguarding the Waddlemeyers and fifty percent because he is determined NOT to fail Gosalyn as he feels he failed her grandfather)
2. As a childhood friend of Drake's (after all, the bully in Drake's flashback DID bear a pretty good resemblance to Tank, so having Gosalyn as a childhood friend of Drake's would actually make Drake a minor composite of himself and Honker). Of course, if they went THAT way, they would have to age Gosalyn up enough where she wouldn't work as an adopted daughter (but an ADULT Gosalyn COULD work as a potential love interest if they weren't already related). But him having some minor elements of Honker and already knowing Gosalyn since his school days would explain him being less egotistical than his classic counterpart.
3. As Drake's BIOLOGICAL daughter from a past relationship that went south (no bird pun intended). Perhaps even with Professor Waddlemeyer's daughter. Okay, the past relationship would have to be in late high school or in college, but him already having Gosalyn would definitely explain him wanting into inspire kids like Jim Starling inspired him and Launchpad.
And, well, I'm sure other, much more talented writers can think of lots of other ways to go with these possibilities.
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My name mentioned brought me here. And I must say I love your old artworks much more. 
When I was a kid I wanted to become an animator because these guys did the impossible. Their skill was beyond godlike. Unreachable. Could anyone look at this new style Disney presents and say "wow, I wanna be able to do that"?
It's not too bad. It's just I'm spoiled with real deal.
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Hi there! Thanks for dropping by then. 
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You know all you really accomplished with this is taking a great Disney cartoon that doesn't need to be completely rebooted in the first place and making the character designs worse, because that's how bad the new DuckTales is. Just because the 2017 crew think that they should be cheaply bastardizing older Disney cartoons doesn't mean that we, as fans of these cartoons, should want to do the same. We should have higher standards if we really love the cartoons that we love.
So let's stop trying to follow the poor example of the DuckTales reboot and just draw these characters the way they deserve to be drawn:
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Hi there, thanks for dropping by and leaving your comment.
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Well in that case, I apologize for giving you any trouble about it. As you can tell I'm very over-protective about Disney and 2D animation myself, like how it's being done today or if it's even being done at all.
Still, if I knew that this new style wasn't very good then I wouldn't even be wanting to draw in it, unless I was making a deliberate statement of how inferior it looks to the original drawing style.
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And for us who love the new style? 
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Then you've forgotten the kind of work and the type of qualities that really go into designing a good cartoon, and you don't hold any real value for those things at all.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but a lot of new cartoons can be bad if the kind of quality they're being made under is bad. Compared to the original 1987 cartoon, the art direction of new DuckTales is cheap! Anyone with real eyes can see that, so long as they're not easily swayed into liking cheapass nostalgia-bait reboots of already good cartoons.
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I dislike the fact that you assume I have a lower intelligence or just have no idea how the animation industry work just because I like the new series? Animation is one of my biggest interests, please don't take me for a fool. :/
I can use that opinion right back at you though. "I'm sorry to break it to you, but a lot of old cartoons can be bad if the kind of quality they're being made under is bad". The new Ducktales isn't cheap, it probably costs just as much as the old one did to make and takes just as long time. The style is something they decided on, and me (and many more) like it. Just like they changed some character traits, story and humour. It's a new version. Making a totally remake of the old one would be very pointless, because guess what? The old version will always be there for people to watch when they want to
"Anyone with real eyes can see that" - Wow, rude much?
"[...] so long as they're not easily swayed into liking cheapass nostalgia-bait reboots of already good cartoons." - Sounds more like you are stuck with nostalgia glasses for the old version and just dislike the new one because it's new(?). I can understand disliking it for many reasons, but you seem to loathe it. Did it personally hurt you?
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The art direction is cheap! That's what's been ruining today's cartoons, and why no one on this site who truly wants to strive to be a good artist themselves should ever want to take after what they're doing. If you do, then you're just wanting to cheapen 2D cartoons for this generation as much as they want to on television.
Why do I loathe 2017 DuckTales like I do? Because I still value the kind of real work that went into drawing 1987 DuckTales along with all those other Disney Afternoon era cartoons, and it's the kind of work I should want to see in today's cartoons as well. To see a newer crew of people stripping down all that work with the excuse of making these cartoons "more modern" is disgraceful to me, and especially insulting when they say they still love the original cartoon yet don't believe in upholding the same artistic standards that went into it.
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"The art direction is cheap!" - That's your opinion. Not a fact. Just because you adore the old style doesn't mean the new one is bad.
You still seem to be stuck in the "everything should be as before, when I was young, and everything was good!". As I said; the old shows still exist. It's just the same as I might love the old "Gulliver's Travels" movie from 1939 because of personal reasons and from a animation fanatics view but that doesn't mean I want new movies to be done in the same way, because I know how much that would cost and how unnecessary it is with the modern technology.
If you truly want to "fix" the modern cartoons, then try to look forwards to what we can to do make it better instead of looking back and say "this is what you should do!". Because no matter how much you love the 80's Ducktales, the style is old and the way of animating it wont be done today because of better technology and understanding of quick animation. The business has moved on, and so should we all. Look behind for inspiration, but look forwards for the adventure of tomorrow.
"I still value the kind of real work that went into drawing 1987 DuckTales along with all those other Disney Afternoon era cartoons, and it's the kind of work I should want to see in today's cartoons as well."
- With that you're implying that the people working on the new Ducktales don't have the passion for it. If so, you clearly haven't seen any interviews of any of the work behind the series. The ones behind it are great fans of the old Ducktales, and it shows with all the love, heart and soul they pour into making the new one as good as they can. A modern, witty version of Ducktales with story and "lore" from both old Ducktales as well as the original comic books. In a way, the new Ducktales has a lot more heart in it than the old one did. The old Ducktales was made to make more money out of Scrooge and the nephews (as most Disney series were, tbh).
Also, modern isn't bad. With the new Ducktales, the characters are deeper and there's more focus on all the women/girl characters, which the old Ducktales (and many Disney series in the 90's) seriously lacked.
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You just showing that you don't know anything about how to really make today's cartoons better, because the 2017 art style of DuckTales doesn't look better than what came before it! And you've also just proved how much disregard you have for actually good 2D art like that of the 1987 cartoon by labeling it as "old". If you really cared about wanting today's cartoons to be good, then you would want to see more cartoons today being drawn as good as they were back then. That's how to fix today's cartoons! It's all about putting the same artistic standards into today's cartoons that were being put into those older cartoons, and standards are not restricted to any decade.
Take a good look at this video, because this is the way to make good Looney Tunes cartoons for today. Not what they did on The Looney Tunes Show or Wabbit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK541L…
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"the 2017 art style of DuckTales doesn't look better than what came before it!"
- Once again, that's your opinion. Not fact. I think it looks better, you don't. Some do, some don't. End of discussion.
"you've also just proved how much disregard you have for actually good 2D art like that of the 1987 cartoon by labeling it as "old"."
- Well, it is old? 1987 is 32 years ago. Saying something is "old" doesn't equal "bad", just as "new" doesn't equal "bad". Also, once again you're putting me down personally saying I'm having "disregard for actually good 2D art" when you don't know anything about me. Ducktales is 2D, and I think it's actually good art. Your opinion doesn't weigh more than mine in this, so you're basically just saying "you disagree with me and therefore your viewpoint is lesser worth", which is rude.
"If you really cared about wanting today's cartoons to be good, then you would want to see more cartoons today being drawn as good as they were back then."
- I think they ARE as good. That's my point. Especially in the 2010's, the art and quality in animated series have really gone up. The 2000's where the absolute worst, even Disney, with most of the time only money in mind, many new TV shows to fill and quantity before quality. The clip you linked is one proof that modern cartoons have just as much heart and time behind them as in the 80's and 90's, maybe even more now that 90's kids are growing up and taking their place in the animation industry with fresh ideas plus lot's of nostalgia to grow upon. The best of both worlds.
Once again; you can dislike the show, that's fine, but saying "it's bad/worse than the old one and that's a fact" without giving me actual proof about why you think so (and not just opinions) wont make you the person who is in the right.
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Shows like Kim Possible and Lilo & Stitch: The Series were on Disney Channel in the 2000s, and those cartoons look better drawn than new DuckTales. Matter of fact any past direct-to-video animation from Disney also looks better than new DuckTales, yet you're the ones who have always been labeling those movies as "cheap" but not the actual cheap art found in some of these more modern reboots.
The reason why that new Looney Tunes looks so much better is because the people making it are clearly looking back at all the older cartoons and following their example, trying to draw the characters and animate them as good as those older cartoons. Neither 2017 DuckTales or the newer cartoons of Mickey Mouse are trying to do that, let alone wanting to.
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"and those cartoons look better drawn than new DuckTales."
- Once again, your opinion. Not a fact.
"yet you're the ones who have always been labeling those movies as "cheap""
- Well yeah, if we're talking budget they are extremely cheap since they weren't given much to work with. Ducktales have quite a big load of money behind it. Also in my opinion, I'm all up to argue about that the story, the characters, the pacing, music and overall composition is probably more thought out in the DuckTales reboot than most/any of the direct-to-video Disney sequels. Those were EXCLUSIVITY made to make money to cash grab on the popular movies, with hopes of maybe making a whole series to get even more money. The new Ducktales was made because Ducktales was a really popular show back in the days but has started to become forgotten, also because the makers were huge fans and saw an opportunity to remake it for new generations and with some fresh ideas.
"but not the actual cheap art found in some of these more modern reboots."
- Not everybody who trash the direct-to-video movies love all modern cartoons. There are a lot of shows nowadays with very little money or heart (or both) behind it. Ducktales isn't one of those though. You can dislike a movie/serie and still like another. Once again; you're free to dislike Ducktales but is still not giving me any reasons for why you dislike it other than you think it's ugly.
"The reason why that new Looney Tunes looks so much better is because the people making it are clearly looking back at all the older cartoons and following their example,"
- They are doing so with Ducktales too. Didn't you read what I wrote? The makers behind the reboot are huge enourmous fans of the old version, and are FILLING the new series with callbacks and easter eggs from the old version. It's just overall a new and modern take on the story and the characters, that's all.
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Is "opinion" your only real cop-out? Because if you don't think my arguments are valid, then you just don't understand art at all. It seems more to me like you're just another naive person who bought into this new reboot because of the nostalgia, but don't care at all if they're sucking all the art of a cartoon that you loved as a kid. If older cartoons are starting to become forgotten, then that is not the right way to make them relevant again. It's better to just bring them back the way that they've already been and simply update the world around them. Like setting Goofy in the 1990s, because that's pretty much what Goof Troop did.
Haven't you been reading what I've been saying? I don't care what "passion" the 2017 crew think they have for what they're doing. They're idiots, and they are desecrating the original cartoon with the cheap art direction that they've been choosing to go for. And rather than let them continue, I would rather that Disney got their standards fixed for television animation and stopped production of this damned reboot that's destroying their own artistic image, along with those new Mickey Mouse cartoons that are just as bad. Then go back to once again putting out cartoons with the same high visual quality as their old Disney Afternoon shows, and not this cheap, low standard garbage.
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I'd stop saying you're only giving me opinions when you stop giving them to me and start coming with valid arguments. The only valid argument you've said is "it's cheap", to which I've said counterarguments as to why I personally think it's far from "cheap". All the other points you have are just your personal opinion. I'm still waiting for you to be more specific of why you dislike it so much.
Once again you're hitting me personally with "then you just don't understand art at all". Using personal attacks on the other person wont make your point more valid, you know.
No, I don't like the reboot because of "nostalgia". I barely saw the old show when I was a kid, and didn't enjoy it until my teens. I've made it clear why I like it but you seem to completely ignore what I'm saying.
"If older cartoons are starting to become forgotten, then that is not the right way to make them relevant again."
- I'd agree it is. It gives the show a new change to come to life in the modern world with new viewpoints and a change to make something a bit different and it also gives people a heads up about the old cartoon which they will look up if they're interested enough.
"They're idiots"
- Why? Please elaborate
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