Simba Sneak Peek

Here’s one of the preliminary color studies [below] I did in preparation for my still-life of the 2009 Simba Spring Event Sculpture "Little King, Big Roar" artwork. It’s going to be unveiled at Castle China’s event in Warwick on April 18th.
I’ve been drawing from the prototype of the final sculpture which is from that stylized, child-like part in the movie which contains a lot of heightened color, in which he sings ‘I Just Can’t Wait to be King’. So I thought, how can I bring what my Buyers like about my oil pastel artwork, to this already painterly captured-moment from the movie?! How about the depth and emotion that I’ve been able to suffuse into a lot of my still-lifes of WDCC art... Well, do you remember that sequence later in Simba’s life where he sees Mufasa up in the clouds? Well, I plan on hinting to an element of this event in our young cub’s future through adding some realistic darker colors. Let’s hope I can pull it off!