The top sketch above is a preliminary piece, obviously. I'm not positive who it's by, but my guess (and hope) is that it was drawn by Dick Huemer, and I suspect it dates from 1931 and was prepared in conjunction with The Little Pest, the second Scrappy cartoon. That short doesn't contain this precise scene, but it does involve Oopy irritating Scrappy and Yippy as they attempt to go fishing.
The bottom drawing is from a 1937 Scrappy coloring book. But it was almost certainly an old publicity piece. In the cartoons of 1937, Scrappy had evolved into a less idiosyncratically-proportioned, vaguely more realistic little boy, but Scrappy merchandise rarelly bothered to precisely reflect what the character looked like in the cartoons.
I wish I knew more about the precise details of both pieces — but it's still nice to have both of them, and I'll bet this is the first time they've ever been published in one place.
Worms! Worms! Worms! Worms! Worms!
Beautiful work. From what I’ve seen, this is the version of the character that I like the best.
Those publicity drawing are great aren’t they? To my eye this particular series of Scrappy drawings appear to be by the same artist. However there are exceptions and this drawing is one of them. One of the obvious tells is how the sole of the shoe is handled. In other renderings of Scrappy the heel of the shoe is depicted pretty consistently as jutting out a little where here it is rendered as just a line running along the bottom. There are other tells but that doesn’t solve who the heck drew the thing! I don’t suspect Huemer though.