Live drawing with Arild Midthun during the corona epidemic

When schools closed due to the corona epidemic in Norway, the weekly Donald comic started streaming live videos with artist Arild Midthun on their Facebook page. The first live session streamed on March 17, and they kept it going with daily videos until April 26. They are all saved and can be viewed on Facbook (note: everything is in Norwegian!).

Some of the videos from the Facebook gallery

In the videos Arild do live drawing while talking about Disney comics. In several videos he also show some of the original art for covers and stories he has done, even some not published yet.

Cover not published yet (when this blogpost was written)

In one of the last videos he showed artwork from a detective story that was published this week, and I found it interesting to compare to the final product.

Arild with the original artwork for the cover

As you can see below the drawings are done the traditional way with ink on paper. But the panel frames, speech balloons and finishing touch is done digitally. And it looks like the camper trailer in the splash panel was redrawn later.
 

When done this way the originals have a tiny bit more artwork done compared to what ends up in the comic book.
 

The new detective story is both written and drawn by Arild, and features professor Argus McFiendy from Darkest Africa by Carl Barks.
 

Professor Argus McFiendy in Darkest Africa, created by Carl Barks

It's actually not the first time Arild have drawn this character. He is also used in One Step Ahead where he is teaming up with Flintheart Glomgold.

From the story One Step Ahead