Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: does Gladstone wear a suit jacket, or a coat? I can't figure it out :O

Not one I know the official answer to, but I think I’ve always seen it as a sort of frock coat, him being a certified fop of the first degree and all. 

There’s also the fact that his coat is usually drawn on a par with the length of Scrooge’s coat, and in the new trailer we see Donald in what is definitely a jacket, which is shorter than Scrooge’s coat for sure-

so yes, that’s my guess and interpretation of it! But again, not an official source that’s just how I always read it.

Anonymous asked: sorry your hands are hurting uncle mod! question- you draw Gladstone with a pretty sharp beak, is his beak different from the other ducks?

me too buddy, it’s really thrown out my plans for drawing stuff- as for the question, yes! It depends on the artist as to how much it differs but Gladstone generally has a straighter and sharper beak than the others in the duck family;

He even gets called ‘chisel-beak’ or ‘chisel-features’ in a couple of stories, which I assume is a pun on the literal shape of his beak along with a ‘chiseller’ being a cheat or swindler. These are pretty exaggerated but on the whole it’s usually fairly subtle-

Daisy, Donald and Scrooge all have much the same, round-ish type of beak, but there’s also some variety in other family members’ beaks, like Gus Goose here has a very different beak type, and cousin Fethry has the pointiest one of all of them!