The Disney Studio artists set to work, creating a cover portrait of their movie star for the revered weekly newsmagazine. A simple black and white pencil rendering was the first version, showing a pleasant, smiling Dumbo beside a circus tent, Magic Feather firmly grasped in his trunk, gazing down at his mentor and friend, Timothy Mouse.

A second design was created, this one darker, using pencil and ink wash, with a less detailed circus background. Dumbo is alone, without a smile, and with his eyebrows raised in an expression of uneasiness or nervousness, as if he is being asked to sit still and pose. In this fashion, it is a portrait of Dumbo more commensurate with the formal cover portrait style of Time magazine of the period.




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