Princess purge

A bit of housekeeping...
Here's the roughs for the princesses from the mural I did for my daughter. These were all done fairly small, about 4 inches high, then scanned and enlarged to A3 size to be cleaned up as I've already shown here, here, here, here, here, here and here .
I altered Belle from what I had here in the rough, as in the final composition she was too similarly posed to Aurora who was right next to her.

Disney Princess Mural

Finally, it's finished, the Disney Princess mural that I've been working on for my daughter for the past 2-3 months. It's been an interesting process- I've wondered at times what I'd gotten myself into, bending around in funny angles trying to paint sections; but I'm more than happy with the result and so is my daughter.

Here's the process outlined below. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Rather than do a more traditional wall wrap-around mural like these two here and here than further inspired me to get moving, I opted instead to paint it on my daughter's sliding wardrobe doors. I figured that they would never be obscured, so it would be a great "canvas" for a mural.

Here the doors have been painted with the base coat-

Now the artwork was enlarged to size (the two large pieces are A0 size) and positioned with the linework to be carbon transferred onto the doors-

Me starting with some of the colours. Unlike the previous mentioned murals I didn't think that placing the mural on the bottom half of the doors would result in me cramping myself onto the floor in order to paint the low sections-

More colours done-

The bulk of the colours are now painted-

The whites are now painted-

Filling in the eyes, and now ready for the black-

In order to make life easy on myself I decided to paint the linework with the surface flat-

What a task this proved to be. "OO" paintbrush and thin lines = lots of hours and a sore back-

Nearly there-

First door in place-

Second door in place-

Ta Dah!!! All finished!-

Close on right-hand door-

Close on Tinkerbell at the top of the right-hand door (there's fairy dust coming off her wand also, which unfortunately isn't too visible in the photo)-

Close on Left-hand door-

A very happy little girl with her Princesses-

The aftermath, lots of paint sample pots and a few exhausted brushes-

S is for Snow White

Here's the last of the official Disney Princesses, Snow White for my daughters mural.
Stay tuned, the mural will be finished shortly...

J is for Jasmine

Here's the princess all the boys seem to like, Jasmine

B is for Belle

Another Princess for the mural. It's nearing completion, probably only a couple of weeks to go.

A is also for Aurora

I'm a little surprised how few people actually know the name of the title character from "Sleeping Beauty", then again she does have two names.
I love the character design of this film

A is for Ariel

C is for Cinderella

Here's the next one in the collection, and the only one I actually drew as part of a production. It's a pity my daughter wasn't a couple of years older as she is mad on Cinderella, and it would've been a great kick to be working on her with my Daughter aware of it all.

T is for Tinkerbell

Still here, just very busy, and wishing I could post some work stuff, but that'll have to wait.

I've had a little project that I've been toiling over for a little while now. My daughter is a Disney Princess nut, and I had the brainwave (or maybe it was a snap) that I'd paint a mural for her. Then I had the big decision to make- do I go for an "On-model" look or stylise them. Amy's retro Disney Pin-ups were a great tempter to go for the stylised option, and it would certainly be more forgiving. But in the end, with some input from my daughter, I went for the "on-model" version.

What was I thinking? They're really hard, and especially trying to nail one style in a drawing and then move onto the next one. Thankfully I have a good collection of model sheets from my time at Disney, not that I drew many of them. Well, Cinderella was the only one actually.

Anyway, here's my first...