Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: thank you so much for all the duck art, also can I just say THANK you for making all your duck ladies the round soft actual duck-shaped-ducks that they are? I've always been curvy and cuddly and I always loved that Daisy, Magica, Goldie etc. were so comfortable and fabulous and confident with that beautiful soft pear shape they- and I- have. I really like how you keep them true to that and allow them to be beautiful and (in a way) sexy! Not despite it, but because of it? You embrace it so well.

aah shucks man, thanks, and same? a lot of my favourite gals from the Disney ‘verse- like Magica, Clucky from Robin Hood, Ursula from the Little Mermaid etc.- are shapely, powerful, funny and confident and they look fantastic but it’s partly because they absolutely know that they look fantastic. I love lots of the slender built characters too, but there’s something so wonderful and empowering about the comic duck characters because they are… ducks! They never disguise that. They make use of the fact that they’re small, comical and cuddly, and yet that never in any way dents the heartfelt moments and the serene dignity that they can portray. Sometimes they’re put at a disadvantage because they are so short! But they can always overcome it, and nobody ever ‘looks down’ on them in terms of intelligence or strength. They always somehow match sincerity and elegance with their fun loving comedy, and they are every inch as- if not more- beautiful to me as the conventional princesses!