Cartoonitures

[tealin]

Saw Narnia again last night, and promptly drew these while the faces were fresh in my mind:
           
Susan proved to be a lot more difficult ... I'll have to look up some photo reference for her.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Awsome! That's so cool! Wish I could draw like that with out a photo. Sooooo, did you like the movie?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes ... I made a post about it earlier, if you want to trawl through the recent entries and read it.

[miss-ida.livejournal.com]

omg they look so alike tealin...
is the movie something worth?? im might going to see it?
the little girl (cant remember name) omg CUTE!!!!

you must be good to catch images since you can draw so alike without looking at a photo

[dragonclaws.livejournal.com]

That is so fantastic! <3

[sammysmee.livejournal.com]

Wow! narnia! tell me, are you going to do more pictures? or is it just a one off? id love to see your rendition of Mr. Tumnus!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hehe, so would I. Maybe later. I have a gag sketch to do first.

[sreya.livejournal.com]

I really like Edmund's ears, and the way Lucy's eyes are sparkling. It really captures something about the both of them. :~)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Hee, those are awesome!

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

AHHHH XDDD omg LOVE. LOL lucy's eyes x333 adorable.

[andmore.livejournal.com]

I love the way you draw. I so wish I had your talent. I'm adding you to my friends list.

[morbid-bunny.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Lucy!!! She looks so adorible!!! I can almost see her squealing out a little, "Mr. Thomnas!" ^^ Kawaii!

[(Anonymous)]

Awwwww! So Adorable!

And it Tumnus.

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a picture of Susan:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y231/OperRose/Narnia/fan%20art/susan.jpg
And lovely drawings, they look so much alike!

[shvitney.livejournal.com]

Lucy looks so adorable! xDDDDD

[starchild-dream.livejournal.com]

Oh hello, I'm a mod from potterpeople and I just want to say that I'm using a couple pictures for our stamping images (since they look better than anything else I was looking for XD). A picture of James and Tonks.
To see them, go here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/potterpeople/66545.html#cutid1

On your site it says to tell ya if we're using your art so...I'm telling ya. :P

[tisagoodthing.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness! I love all of them! *huggles*

[chantelli.livejournal.com]

How could someone NOT leave the theatre in love with Mr.Tumnus. Tumnus (despite being half goat) is adorable. And so are these sketches.

[black-nightess.livejournal.com]

damn peter is so good and lucy is definately the definition of cuteness!

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Lucy's teeth!! Hahaha! Wonderful!

Edmund looks strangely like an American exchange student we had in class a year ago.

Really cool pictures, as always. Gag sketch? Bring it on!

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

Gack......arg.....Lucy...the cute.......is buuuuuuuuuurnsssssss *_*

But aww, they're all so cartoony sweet ^_^ I'm impressed how close to the actors they look, considering you were doing it from memory!

[shiseido.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just added you to my friends list, hope you don't mind! :P I've been looking at your art for a year or so and love it! I'm a big Harry fan too and I'm also an animator... I'm pretty sure I read on your page somewhere that you're an animator... correct me if I'm wrong.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um, thanks for the notificaztion but ... I really prefer this sort of thing to be an email. I can keep better track of it and it doesn't clutter up the LJ. Thanks anyway, though.

[(Anonymous)]

[mind bends]

Unexpected icon/message juxtaposition.

[starchild-dream.livejournal.com]

oh..sorry. ^_^;

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

there is something about your art that makes me very happy in a childhood memory kind of way.

i found your lj through your website, which i also love very much!

i hope you don't mind if i friend you!

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I know Glen Keane is in the habit of giving his characters big soulful eyes when the style permits (Beast, Aladdin, Tarzan...) and as Aladdin was much more of a sensitive sympathetic character than a hard hero, it stands to reason. I haven't actually read the specific comment you refer to, but it's standard character design wisdom. Large eyes are also more expressive, which is why mute characters (or those frequently dependent on nonverbal communication, as in the case of Ariel and Tarzan) usually have great big peepers. I've been noticing the shrinking eyes in my drawings lately and decided I needed to nudge myself back on track ... and I noticed while watching the movie that Edmund has really big eyes. Those are, in fact, intentionally almost Glen Keane eyes.

(I also noticed that in the scene where he's gagged and tied to a tree, he looks like he could grow up to look like Rowan Atkinson, though perhaps that's just the Mr Bean grimace that the gag gives him...)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I spent about two thirds of the movie, this time through, studying their faces for the express purpose of caricature... It's taken A LOT of work to learn how to do it. More than a year of solid, dedicated caricature practise. I feel like I'm only just starting to get it.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and that's almost exactly the reaction I was hoping for from the Lucy pic. ; ) Probably should have pushed it more...

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

If you'd pushed it any further, then people will have been dying of cuteness in your comments ^_^. A heap of corpses in your nice lj will not do XD

And I always think your doodles of real people look strikingly similar to them already. You've already got a really good foundation for caricature work :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You've only ever seen the ones that were successful enough to scan ... my sketchbooks are strewn with hopeless attempts at Merry and Pippin.

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

Yes, but let's be honest: they have frikkin' weeeeeird faces! Especially Dom Monaghan! XD

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

So they should be easy to caricature, right? I mean, it's incredibly normal[bland]-looking people like Sean Biggerstaff who are hard. At least that was my thinking at the time. Start with the most distinctive faces ... I need to go back and try them again.

this picture rocks!

[(Anonymous)]

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[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

...he looks like he could grow up to look like Rowan Atkinson...

[sweetnessarose.livejournal.com]

Omg, I love this movie! This is a really good pic, too. I especially love Edmund and Peter.