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cbuchholz aka Chris Buchholz is a 27.01 year old boy, has been a member since June 29, 2006, has scored 6783 submissions, giving an average score of 2.42.

Feb 06 '08 by cbuchholz

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back from Disney with sketches

I just got back from vacation at Disney World! It was the first time for my nephew and neice so it was really fun. Plus, you just have to admire the meticulous detail disney goes to in order to create a theme. I brought a sketchbook this time to cature some of it. I'm a big fan of the architecture especially.

Here's some of my sketches....

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taz-pie on Feb 06 '08 at 9:26am

oh gosh you are ridiculously talented, dude. like, RIDICULOUSLY.

chelly on Feb 06 '08 at 9:26am

amazing! i don't know how you do it. and you even got some autographs.

thanks for sharing these. they are beautiful.

tesco on Feb 06 '08 at 9:28am

how cool. great observations. love the epcot center sketch

SoulfumeInc on Feb 06 '08 at 9:30am

wow, im blown away by these sketches. they look really good, and the watercolor is amazing.

you should show this to Disney. maybe they'll publish it?!

sonmi on Feb 06 '08 at 9:30am

OH MY GOD! these are beautiful. gahh

how long do each of these spreads usually take?

fc gravy on Feb 06 '08 at 9:31am

you rock!

OlliRudi on Feb 06 '08 at 9:32am

man, your sketchbooks are so awesome!

did you get to see walt's mother brain-style frozen head on top of a bionic body?

vinnylo on Feb 06 '08 at 9:33am

how LONG did this take u??

SupremeBeing on Feb 06 '08 at 9:33am

Incredible talent you have there!

Demented on Feb 06 '08 at 9:35am

Holy shit.

Holy shit. Dude.

iDanSimpson on Feb 06 '08 at 9:35am

this is amazing. i want your skillz.

andyg on Feb 06 '08 at 9:36am

You're so good, it almost makes me sick! Amazing drawings!

wotto on Feb 06 '08 at 9:37am

these are beautiful. watercolour is a hard medium to master. *applauds*

ladrones on Feb 06 '08 at 9:37am

awesome sketches chris, i've still never been to disney land or world.
crap.

you should really do this loose stuff on some shirts here, and water colors. i think we'd all really love that!

nikolina100 on Feb 06 '08 at 9:37am

holy shit!! This is incredible!! Really beautiful sketches.

cbuchholz on Feb 06 '08 at 9:39am

thanks guys!! No olli, I missed that! But believe me I was looking for it!

I was there for about 10 days and some of the lesser detailed spreads took about 30 minutes, other more detailed ones might have taken an hour and a half or so.

For some of them, I primed the page first with watercolor back at the hotel; just put a large swath of color and maybe some splatters and designs. Then when I got to the park I tried to pick a subject that complimented the design. I'm not sure how successful that was, but It was a fun way of working.

For the one I had my niece scribble all over the page first and tried to make it work.

shimala on Feb 06 '08 at 9:39am

duuuude, so awesome!!!

Lhiiiz on Feb 06 '08 at 9:41am

Dude, Talent, you has it.

Seriously, these actually look like sketchbook pages from some of the Disney animators. They're fantastic. I think they'd love to see these.

cbuchholz on Feb 06 '08 at 9:41am

I'd love to do some designs like this for threadless Josh! I've been meaning to for a really long time, but then I just get sidetracked with things. I definately plan on doing that in the future though.

vinnylo on Feb 06 '08 at 9:42am

did u have any free time when you were there, to like hang out? cuz your sketches are amazingly done with detail and color!

squintygirl on Feb 06 '08 at 9:42am

Your 'sketches' are mind-blowingly fantastic!

BaronVonMonkey on Feb 06 '08 at 9:44am

these are amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing!

Ellsswhere on Feb 06 '08 at 9:44am

all beautiful... but 5 and 7 are esp. intriguing, the color and layouts fit perfectly
amazing work chris

wullagaru on Feb 06 '08 at 9:45am

show off .... the boat one is beautiful I love teh way you use teh watercolors .. very nice loose gestural

cbuchholz on Feb 06 '08 at 9:46am

thanks squinty and everybody! Actually vinny I did have alot of free time. I wasn't sure how this sketch book thing would work since I've never tried it on vacation till now. I thought it might be a little hectic trying to do sketches while at the same time just trying to have a good time. but it wasn't like that at all. In fact I felt more realaxed this trip then I did most others. Instead of rushing everywhere I often stopped to just sit and relax and draw what I saw. I actually feel like I saw more of the park since I took the time to really notice everything. And I got on most of the rides too which is fun!

Mikko Terva on Feb 06 '08 at 9:48am

stellar, beautiful stuff. I was wondering where you had been all this time...

DaniellesGarden on Feb 06 '08 at 9:49am

your sketchbook is amazing.. What a great way to look back at everything you saw and did while on your vacation..

steven218 on Feb 06 '08 at 9:51am

you didn't have time for the rides did you chris?

i love your sketchbooks dude.

cbuchholz on Feb 06 '08 at 9:54am

Yeah actually I did Steven! I'm not one who needs to go on a ride a couple times in a row, but I did get on the cool ones at least once. I wish they'd slow the rides down so I could draw them actually.

It was really amazing how many people I met because of this too. I met other illustrators and all kinds of interesting people.

littlem on Feb 06 '08 at 9:58am

*faints

just gorgeous work

*faints again

Edword on Feb 06 '08 at 10:04am

yep you're a movie star!

tracerbullet on Feb 06 '08 at 10:06am

fantastic work!

MeLa de Gypsie on Feb 06 '08 at 10:08am

effing amazing!!!

I love the splotches with illus best..

shakethesheets on Feb 06 '08 at 10:09am

wow... those are incredible. If I could steal an ounce of your talent (is that how they measure talent?) I'd be happy.

sonmi on Feb 06 '08 at 11:18am

dude would it creep you out if part of our new york trip involved hovering over your shoulder while you paint an iconic new york landscape?!

valorandvellum on Feb 06 '08 at 11:20am

You are just ridiculous!!! I like how your "sketches" show up everyon else's art... :-P How did you find time to go on all the rides AND do all those fantastic sketches?

ISABOA on Feb 06 '08 at 11:28am

geeeeeeez -

bsweber on Feb 06 '08 at 11:29am

gorgeous, i bet you really could get that published

ilovedoodle on Feb 06 '08 at 11:32am

wow, i wish i can do that

cbuchholz on Feb 06 '08 at 11:35am

Ha! I don't know Sonmi, I'll try, but I might get nervous. I won't feel nervous though if we all bring our sketchboooks and draw. that would be fun!

Priscilla, I don't know how the time worked out so well. I used the fastpass on the bigger rides, and then I did take one day all to myself to just draw and that day I only did two rides. But honestly it didn't feel rushed, it was very relaxing.

marblecargirl on Feb 06 '08 at 12:02pm

Chris! I just looked at all those with my jaw completely on the floor. You are so crazy talented!

lordog on Feb 06 '08 at 1:03pm

amazing. i don't know what else to say.

iPear on Feb 06 '08 at 1:06pm

foist class

bortwein on Feb 06 '08 at 1:09pm

WOW. I love how you sketched out your food.

spacesick 2 on Feb 06 '08 at 1:10pm

oh man. sweet work, you crazy bastard. I love the boat and that epcot-scape most of all

but next time we're going together, big boy!

amaliaslash on Feb 06 '08 at 1:12pm

No giant whale?? No matter. My favorite is the Tower of Terror with Mickey's autograph right next to it.

shibby558899 on Feb 06 '08 at 1:13pm

It should be illegal to be as awesome as you are. I wish I had a fraction of one percent of the artistic ability you have in your left pinky.

Ste7en on Feb 06 '08 at 1:16pm

you should work out a book deal to do this at all kinds of famous places and publish a set! Go forth. I take a 5% consulting fee.

bortwein on Feb 06 '08 at 1:20pm

If I tried to do that many drawing while at Disney my hours would go like this:
Hours doing anything other than drawing while at the park = 1
Hours drawing while I was there = 47

oh and the "You are Too Awesome Police" are going to be knocking at your door any minute now.