it's the closest thing I know to Russian)As you can tell, I'm new to these wonderful forums and though I'm usually one to avoid self-introductions, I'll give it a shot here because I come here with a purpose - to improve my lion king art!
I watched The Lion King two weeks ago for the first time since I saw it in the cinemas during its debut. Since then I've rewatched scenes of it maybe 10-20 times, and somewhere along the line I decided to try and draw some TLK characters' faces/heads. I sucked, obviously, so I started copying from stills of the movie to try and figure out how the disney animators would go about drawing Simba or Nala from scratch.
I've done 15 referenced sketches and 17 unreferenced so far, and boy was I finding it hard to make the unreferenced ones look authentic!
And so here I am, thanks to a tracking-down of a fantastic TLK drawing of Sarafina's that I found on the net. Man - is she crazy or what? Crazy good that is, not crazy crazy.
Granted, this forum doesn't seem to be exclusively committed to C&C of TLK art, so I won't treat it as such, buuut I can't rule out relentless questioning of the artists on this forum about how they got to be so good!
P.S. this isn't a cold-hearted using of TLK as a tool for improving general sketching ability, I really do love TLK heaps
(the original, mind you). I can't post any major art for about a month because of year 12 exams coming up real soon. It will come though!
since it's the most fun. I'm gonna try and reference from actual lion muscle/skeletal anatomy diagrams too though. I think it's always helpful to be able to work from a realistic point of view downwards into the more stylised... styles.
