Tweety

Posted on April 23, 2021

I’ve been waiting for today’s alphabet character to roll around.  When I sketched Granny, I struggled with drawing a small caged Tweety.  I find it difficult to create scaled down versions of anything I’m not familiar with drawing and I didn’t care how he turned out in the earlier illustration or even in the above A2Z post banner.  This is my time to try to right the wrong with my earlier attempts.  Let’s tee how I do, twall we?

This is more of fantasy picture I found online as an example but I imagined Tweety felt really safe high on cloud away from that bad ole puddy tat.

Tweety appeared in 46 cartoons during the Looney Tunes golden age.  In his first short, A Tale of Two Kitties (1942), he doesn’t look or sound the same as what I know from my Saturday morning cartoon days.  Mel Blanc provided the voice for Tweety from 1942-’89.  Perhaps in the first film he hadn’t perfected Tweety’s character.  Many of the animations from the late 50s I suspect are the ones I grew up watching like A Pizza Tweety Pie, A Bird in a Bonnet, Trick or Tweet, Hyde and Go Tweet which I shared in “Quackbusters”, and a few others.  There’s a full list of all of the short titles on Wiki if you’re interested. 

We’re all familiar with the general story plot a bad ole putty tat, Sylvester, attempts to turn Tweety into his meal but fails repeatedly.  The antics are hilarious.  I a collection of Tweety clips “Did I Saw A Putty Tat?” for your entertainment.  I hope this brings back some fun memories for you.  

Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your day.  Please leave a direct link for today’s post in comments to ensure others can find an easy way back to you.  I’m heading over to the A2Z headquarters to see who’s joined the party now.  I hope to see you again tomorrow for the next letter in the alphabet in my Looney Tunes Art Sketch series! X💋X💋 Cathy

 

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17 thoughts on “Tweety”

  5. Tweety was quite a character. Many of the cartoon characters we know and love today were not fully “themselves” in their very first appearance. Even when you are drawing an animated cartoon, it takes a while to get to know your characters (rather like when writing a story).

  6. I was hoping I would see a tweety bird. Now, I did! I did! (I love Tweety.)

  12. 46 Tweety cartoons?! I must have seen most of them because I remember seeing a lot of Tweety cartoons as I was growing up. Your drawing is very cute.

    Lee

  13. Tweety is one of my favorites. Years ago I had a bright yellow sweatshirt with Tweety on the front. I remember wearing it at Six Flags when my kids were little — Six Flags had a deal with Warner Brothers at the time.

  14. Oh such fun. I love that cartoon and Tweety is one of my favorites. Your sketch is perfect.

    I linked this post to Feline Friday.

    Have a fabulous day and weekend. Love and hugs. ♥

  16. Happy TGIF Cathy and there’s the little Tweety. What a nice sketch of the tweetster in the clouds… ♥ dreamy even! Who can’t love the little bird? I can’t think of anyone. I hope you have a super duper weekend and if you get a chance you can pop on over and see my post about thanksgiving … I know I have a lot to be thankful for. You are one of them… thanks for always being around and cheering my day with your creative works of art.

    Have a great day!
    Cheers,
    Crackerberries

  17. Hi, Cathy!

    Happy T-day, dear friend!

    I Tawt I Taw a Tweety Bird! Yessum, it’s great to see an enlarged version of Tweety and to have the cute avian character in the A to Z spotlight today. Your drawing is wonderful. Posed floating on a cloud, Tweety appears happy and carefree. Surely Tweety is the most perennially pollyannaish character in the Looney Tunes family. He never seems to sense he’s in danger of becoming Sylvester’s lunch until the last second, and he always manages to escape his fate. Many times Tweety finds a clever way to get over on the cunning cat like blowing him up with dynamite. Sometimes he escapes his fate through dumb luck like those crashing waves carrying Sylvester away at the last moment. Sometimes a cat-hating dog intervenes and saves Tweety. In the cartoon you posted, a fellow cat intervenes, convinces Sylvester that he has a problem, an addiction to catching and eating birds, and talks him into joining BA – Birds Anonymous. Listening to the other cats speak at that BA meeting was hilarious. In boyhood, I saw most if not all 46 of Tweety’s shorts. As was the case with Woody Woodpecker and many, I would say MOST, other cartoon characters, Tweety looked and sounded quite different in his earliest appearances.

    This was so much fun, Cathy. I hope you’ll bring Tweety bird back someday In Living (yellow) Color. See you tamale for your U-day post, dear friend!

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