Disney Un-Disneyed In Color X (D)

Time to wrap up my year-long Disney Un-Disneyed In Color project.

All the creatures.  Can you name them all?

Are these six a little more recognizable in color? Maybe not.

 Original sketches for those two can be seen here.

And then as a seasonal P.S. I finally gave in to the hankering to do character redesigns from The Nutcracker and The Steadfast Tin Soldier, which I guess are related in a few ways (ballet, winter, military?).

This was a really satisfying project.

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color IX (D)

(Meant to post this yesterday but time's a-wastin', I can't put it off!  Too many things going to do!)

Hey!  Almost done!  Here are a few more Disney Un-Disneyed, this batch three very different types of royalty.

I thought about steering away from blonde but it just seemed to work.

Hair is one of my favorite things to draw soooo.

I intended for this to have basically nothing but white with slightest shades but this works too.

Just a few more P.S.es to round things out!  See you next time.

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color VIII (D)

I forgot that when I posted the sketches of these I included Tarzan with the previous batch, so he'll float into this group time time instead. Really close to the end with these!  Sketch versions here (and here).

Golden-haired Jane!

This one is still a stretch but it's a fun addition to the series anyway.

Do you see what I see in the background? 

This one is always tricky because it's Disney Un-Disneyed but also Joyce Un-Joyced.

See you next week!  When it will be December. o.O

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color VII (D)

It's definitely been a while but here's the next batch.  I hope you're ready for some drama!

Props to J for the inspired background idea.

Beast mode activated!!!

Please forgive my Chinese character work.  I did my best.

I'm rounding the corner for the end-of-year rush!

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color VI (D)

A few more on this fine Thursday afternoon.  Sketches for these here.

This is one of my favorites of the whole series so far.

The broooooding.

I had some color issues with this one but it works.

Almost caught up!

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color V (D)

I missed last week, but it's all good.  Here's the next trio in the Disney Un-Disneyed In Color series.  I always get excited when I reach this point. (Sketch versions here.)

Poor little waif.  At least he doesn't look much like a Hobbit anymore.

I actually have some design issues in hindsight but I decided to leave them be.

All the roses!

Hasta la vista.

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color IV (D)

Three literary dudes for the next round a painted Disney Un-Disneyed.  I especially like how Robin Hood turned out.

Merry indeed!

L.A. was short on physical description but I read somewhere that Taran had black hair in the original cover illustrations and I'm totally into that idea. 

Two for one!

The sketches for these can be found here.

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color III (D)

Time for a few more (sketches here), all done March 2017

I must admit her dress coloring was an inspired decision on my part.

This has never been my favorite but it's sure popular on Instagram.

Oooh, green textured background!

See you next week!

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color II (D)

Here are the next few in the series.

Details, details.

Get ready to see a looooot of digital watercoloring...

He can fly!

Sketches for these here.

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color I (D)

I really should have been posting these all throughout the year!  But here they are now, again in batches.  These were all done January 2017.

(Sketch versions here.)

I've posted this one before, but I'll throw it in here too.

Little Wooden Boy!

Let the background texture games begin.

More to come in the weeks to follow!

Disney Un-Disneyed In Color Kickoff (D)

A few years ago I did a series of sketches based on the source material for Disney's animated movies and I'm finally making good on my plan to paint them. This project will last for most of the year, and pieces probably will be posted in batches, but I did want to kick things off by sharing the one that started them all.

Sunday Sketches: Disney Un-Disneyed X (D)

I've been posting a couple of my Disney Un-Disneyed series every week on my new Instagram art account lately, and when I was done I decided I better complete the series with the animal characters I skipped:

 And then there was this P.S. while I was on the subject of animal friends, because these six classic characters were just begging to be included in the series (did you know that Pluto was originally envisioned as a bloodhound?).

Sunday Sketches -- Disney Un-Disneyed IX (D)

(I guess I didn't post it early after all, ha.  But not late either!)

And thus we come to the close of the Disney Un-Disneyed Sunday Sketches.  I didn't do art for EVERY source material book/story, but I think I did most of them, at least the human characters and the most well-known ones.  This was a really fun project, not only for the reading, but also the drawing/designing.  I would like to color all of these eventually.

The Frog Prince (reviews here, here and here)

Rapunzel (reviews here, here, here and here)

The Snow Queen (reviews here and here)

The end!  And they all lived happily ever after.

Sunday Sketches -- Disney Un-Disneyed VIII (D)

My Disney Un-Disneyed Sunday Sketches series is fast finally coming to a close!  I really thought I would have these all posted by the end of 2014, but oh well, life happened and there you have it.  This is an interesting set of fellows, the first of which is a stretch for this series in the first place (and it took a few tries to get his look just right, thanks to J for helping me figure it out, as well as the strategic placement of props), and the third I didn't even know was based on a book in the first place.  The second turned out just how I thought it would.

The Emperor's New Clothes (review here)

Treasure Island (review here)

A Day With Wilbur Robinson (review here)

Almost done!  I don't think I'll wait until next Monday to post the last set, so stay tuned for those very soon!

Sunday Sketches -- Disney Un-Disneyed VII (D)

We've both just finished a big 30 day drawing challenge, so I haven't really had the chance even to post a few more Sunday Sketches, but we're all done now, so maybe I can finally finish posting these. This set features some of my favorites of the whole series.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (review here)

Hercules (reviews here and here)

Fa Mulan (reviews here, here and here)

And, because the final number was not a multiple of three, one bonus to round out the '90s:

Tarzan of the Apes (reviews here and here)

That's it for now.  We're getting pretty close to the end of the lineup!

Sunday Sketches -- Disney Un-Disneyed VI (D)

(^ Oops, I guess not!)

Hey! It's Christmastime! So to celebrate... I'm going to post a few more Disney Un-Disneyed Sunday Sketches! Because that's what Christmas is all about (?). Heading through the '90s now! The middle one is kind of a stretch, but since The Lion King is (loosely but also exactly) based on Hamlet, it seemed like that would be a fun addition to the series.

Aladdin (reviews here and here)

Hamlet, for The Lion King (review here)

Pocahontas (reviews here and here)

Merry Christmas, everyone! (And at this point I'm actually almost done with this series, so I'm just doing some catching up now!)

Sunday Sketches -- Disney Un-Disneyed V (D)

Here's another cycle of Sunday Sketches inspired by the source material for Disney's animated movies!  This is the start of some of my favorites in the whole series.  It's pretty difficult to create a new design for the Beast, since Disney seems to have perfected it, and it's hard for me to look at Oliver and not see a Hobbit, but he has the look anyway.

Oliver Twist (review here)

The Little Mermaid (review here)

Beauty and the Beast (reviews here and here)

More on the way shortly! I really meant to post these over Thanksgiving break, so maybe I'll post another one sooner than I had planned.