I draw what I want, when I want, and how I want (except 'well'; I want to draw well, but I can't ...so I don't, but everything else I do, I do as I choose!) ...and I'm going to continue drawing Christmas until I'm weary of it. *nose in air*
HYPOTHETICALWATCHER: "It's because you still have Christmas pencils to feature, right?"
...Yes. :p
Anyway, I thought I'd draw Chauncey from 'Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night' (BaCSN).
BaCSN was a 1998 direct-to-video Christmas special.
I don't really have much to say about the special (despite having watched it three times this month---the mice are cute). Its story isn't too bad---just poorly told. I also don't care for most of the characters, especially the villains (the guy reminds me of The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak, minus the charm, of course ...and the woman HAS to be some kind of stereotype, I just can't identify which).
That said, I like the opening song 'Christmas in Oberndorf', and I can appreciate the casting of Jim Cummings (who, thanks to his extensive voice-work for Disney, reminds me of better things I could be watching).
BaCSN is a fictionalized account of the origin of the Christmas hymn 'Silent Night'. It's not much of a spoiler to say Chauncey composed the music and a human character (Father Joseph) wrote the lyrics.
To see BaCSN, click here (fair warning: the first and last couple minutes are missing from the upload; link tested 12/27/2022): [REDACTED]
(if the link didn't work, the performance was by Aaron Neville)
Pencil...
The featured pencil is just a modern Christmas pencil ...but I like it. It has some of the words to 'Silent Night' written on it, as well some musical notes (I dunno how to read music, so I'm unsure if they're the right notes, but whatever). There's also a graphic of a snow-covered cottage and snowman, all in metallic-red stamping. :3
The animation is cute but the story not very inventive. I mean the intro song has two mice singing, one about music on a white background, one about money on a red background. Very 'This GOOD, that BAD.' There's a good set of stereotypes in there. Mayor is bumbling old and fat, bad mouse is bumbling old and fat. Duke is point-nosed, dark and snobbish, bad lady is wearing scarlet... There's a little orphan girl for crying out loud. Subtle they ain't.
It's so sappy you'd think it leaked from a Christmas tree. Your ornament with a happiness would think this was too much. I think the mice are the only thing this has going for it.
Also, did... did the cat DIE? I think the cat died under that cart!
You can watch the full thing here, though note it has Greek subtitles on it. So there's a tradeoff:
