How NOT to Draw

How NOT to Draw is a short drawing tutorial parody series where animators bring beloved Disney characters to life, and the characters are given chaos that the animator(s) bring upon them. It premiered on September 30, 2022 on Disney Channel.

The series started with a parody tutorial on how NOT to draw Cricket Green from Big City Greens. Season 2 premiered on September 4, 2023.

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Season 1 (2022-23)

Video	Title	Series	Character(s)	Animator	Release date
	How NOT To Draw Cricket Green	Big City Greens	Cricket Green	Kari Wahlgren	September 30, 2022
	When Cricket Green from Big City Greens is brought to life, he has a very special request for his animator. This is How NOT To draw Cricket Green, from Big City Greens!
	Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Cartoon Come to Life!	Mickey Mouse/The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse	Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse	Zeno Robinson	January 27, 2023
	When a Disney animator draws Mickey Mouse a boat, our favorite mouse finds himself facing a series of unexpected challenges. But our pal Mickey has a secret Minnie Mouse up his sleeve, will that be enough to battle a shark?!
	Suga Mama Cartoon Come to Life!	The Proud Family/The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder	Suga Mama, Oscar Proud, Puff	Zeno Robinson	February 25, 2023
	When a Disney animator brings Proud Family’s Suga Mama to life, her endless list of demands leads to a dramatic duel.
	Dr. Doofenshmirtz Cartoon Come to Life!	Phineas and Ferb	Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Perry the Platypus, Candace Flynn	Dee Bradley Baker	March 25, 2023
	Our Disney Animator is up for the fight of his life when Dr. Doofenshmirtz gets his hands on the ERASE-INATOR. Can the animator draw himself out of this situation before Dr. Doof destroys his desk?
	Kiff Cartoon Come to Life!	Kiff	Kiff Chatterley	Roger Craig Smith	April 22, 2023
	When Kiff Chatterley is brought to life, she shows an overly serious animator how to loosen up through a series of silly games.

Season 2 (2023-24)

Video	Title	Series/Film	Character(s)	Animator	Release date
	Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Cartoon Comes to Life!	Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl, Devil Dinosaur	Debra Wilson	September 4, 2023
	How NOT To Draw is back with a BIG season 2 premiere featuring Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur! In this drawing tutorial parody, when Moon Girl can't decide what kind of supervillain to fight, she unknowingly creates one of her greatest enemies yet! Can she and the animator defeat the villain before it escapes the page?
	Minnie Mouse Cartoon Comes to Life!	Mickey Mouse/The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse	Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Clarabelle Cow	Sarah-Nicole Robles	November 4, 2023
	In this drawing tutorial parody, the charming Minnie Mouse helps the Animator learn that putting a little bit of love into your baking goes a long way. Also featuring special guest stars Daisy Duck and Clarabelle Cow!
	A Bug's Life Comes to Life!	A Bugs' Life	Flik	Grey DeLisle	January 24, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, Flik from “A Bug’s Life” helps the animator learn that when you’re an ant, maybe it’s not so tough to be a bug after all!
	Scratch Comes to Life🖌	The Ghost and Molly McGee	Scratch, Molly McGee	Khary Payton	February 24, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, Scratch the Ghost will do anything to get a taste of the animator’s bagel, even if it means haunting his whole desk!
	Polly Comes to Life🖌	Amphibia	Polly Plantar	Sumalee Montano	March 23, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, Polly Plantar from “Amphibia” stands up to a condescending animator who keeps treating her like a baby.
	R2-D2	Star Wars	R2-D2, C-3PO, Jawas	Mark Hamill	May 4, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, the Animator joins forces with R2-D2 from Star Wars to rescue C-3P0 after he’s kidnapped by those pesky scavengers, the Jawas!

Season 3 (2024-present)

Video	Title	Series/Film	Character(s)	Animator	Release date
	Donald Duck Cartoon Comes to Life🖊️	Mickey Mouse & Friends	Donald Duck(s), Pluto	John Stamos	June 3, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, the animator tries to give Donald a proper celebration for his birthday. But when other versions of Donald show up to crash the party… let’s just say… “Aw Phooey”
	Grunkle Stan Comes to Life🖊️	Gravity Falls	Stan Pines, Bill Cipher	Alan Ruck	August 17, 2024
	During a drawing tutorial for Grunkle Stan, the animator accidentally unleashes Bill Cipher onto his animation desk.
	Disney Primos Cartoon Comes to Life🖊️	Primos	Tater Ramirez Humphrey	Jessica Marie Garcia	September 14, 2024
	In this drawing tutorial parody, the Animator tries to help the daydreaming Tater from “Primos” figure out what her final form should be.

Voice actors/actresses

• Kari Wahlgren as Cricket Green's animator
• Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
• Zeno Robinson as Mickey and Suga Mama's animator
• Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse
• Kaitlyn Robrock as Minnie Mouse
• Jo Marie Payton as Suga Mama
• Tommy Davidson as Oscar Proud head
• Dee Bradley Baker as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's animator, Agent P/Perry the Platypus
• Dan Povenmire as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
• Roger Craig Smith as Kiff's animator
• Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
• Sarah-Nicole Robles as Minnie Mouse's animator
• Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur, The Mess, Deep Voice Snake
• Ashley Tisdale (archival audio) as Candace Flynn
• Diamond White as Moon Girl
• Debra Wilson as Daisy Duck, Moon Girl's animator
• April Winchell as Clarabelle Cow
• Grey DeLisle as Flik's animator
• Wally Wingert as Flik
• Dana Snyder as Scratch
• Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
• Khary Payton as Scratch's animator
• Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar, Debra
• Sumalee Montano as Polly's animator, Baby Snake
• Ben Burtt as R2-D2
• Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
• Mark Hamill as R2-D2 and C-3PO's animator
• Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck('s)
• John Stamos as Donald's animator
• Alex Hirsch as Grunkle Stan and Bill Cipher
• Alan Ruck as Grunkle Stan's animator
• Myrna Velasco as Tater Ramirez Humphrey
• Jessica Marie Garcia as Tater's animator

Trivia

• The shorts' premise is reminiscent of the Looney Tunes shorts Duck Amuck and Rabbit Rampage and also has similarities to the viral video series Animator vs Animation.
• The second short features Mickey whistling on a boat, an obvious reference to Steamboat Willie.
• In the seventh short, Minnie, instead of her red skirt with white polka dots, wears a plain blue skirt similar to the one she wore in the 1936 short, Mickey's Rival.
  • Additionally, Minnie is seen wearing her pink dress and bow with white polka dots from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures and Mickey Mouse Funhouse towards the end of the seventh short.
• The beginning and the end of the second short where Mickey doesn't have his ears and can't hear anything is a reference to episode 9 of the 2013 Mickey Mouse series, Bad Ear Day.
• This is the first time Debra Wilson voices Daisy Duck outside of Mickey Mouse Funhouse, the stop-motion holiday specials, and Mickey's Christmas Tales.
• Zeno Robinson voiced the animator in the Mickey and Suga Mama episodes, while Dee Bradley Baker voiced the animator in the Doof episode. Debra Wilson also voiced the animator in the Moon Girl episode while Sarah-Nicole Robles also voiced the animator in the Minnie episode.
• The series was added to Disney+ on August 2, 2023.
• Dan Povenmire recorded himself doing the "A Platypus? Perry the Platypus?!" line for "Dr. Doofenshmirtz Cartoon Come to Life!" for Doofenshmirtz on October 8, 2022.
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur were the first Marvel characters to be the subject of an episode.
• Flik became the first Pixar character to be the subject of an episode, marking his true return to animation 25 years since A Bug's Life. Additionally, his appearance was probably meant to be a cross promotion with the Disney+ docuseries by National Geographic, A Real Bug's Life, hence why the episode featured scientific facts about ants.
• Wally Wingert replaces Dave Foley as Flik, as he's done for a couple of projects.
• The episode description of Flik's episode is a reference to the A Bug's Life attraction at the Disney parks It's Tough to Be a Bug.
• "Scratch Comes to Life" makes this the first time The Ghost and Molly McGee content was made in traditional animation rather than flash animation.
• The Star Wars episode was made to celebrate Star Wars Day as the episode was released on May 4th, which is when Star Wars Day is.
• The Donalds featured in "Donald Duck Cartoon Comes to Life" are:
  • Paul Rudish's Donald design
  • The modern Donald design
  • The Wise Little Hen design
  • Carl Barks's Donald design
  • DuckTales reboot's design
• The Donald Duck episode is made to co-alongside the character's 90th birthday, hence the birthday party theme and the versions of Donald featured in the episode.
• At the end of the Grunkle Stan episode, a cipher code in its mock up YouTube error screen is shown reading: "HTTP ERROR 502: EB WUDQVODWLQJ WKLV FRGH BRX DUH KHUHEB DJUHHLQJ WR OHW ELOO FLSKHU WDNH SHUPDQHQW FRQWURO RI BRXU PLQG. JRRG OXFN ZLWK WKDW!" When translated it reads: "BY TRANSLATING THIS CODE YOU ARE HEREBY AGREEING TO LET BILL CIPHER TAKE PERMANENT CONTROL OF YOUR MIND. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!"
• In the part where Dr. Doofenshmirtz erases Candace's mouth in "Dr. Doofenshmirtz Cartoon Come to Life!", a table napkin with sketches of Phineas can be seen; which is the drawings that Dan Povenmire drew in a restaurant which became the inspiration for him to create Phineas and Ferb with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.

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