Sun Lion

Sun LionMedium: digital painting

Lion King 2019

Workin' on My ROAR
Medium: digital painting

Perfect Harmony
Medium: digital painting

Surrounded by Idiots
Medium: digital painting

I'm a Sensitive Soul
Medium: digital painting

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Does all anthro looks like Disney?

The Old King
Medium: digital painting

Experimenting with brushes in Photoshop. :)

I recently posted this on DeviantArt, and the first comment said it reminds them of Simba from The Lion King. I don't understand, though, because I based this off of real life lion reference photos. I didn't give him eyebrows, eye rings, or even remotely human-like eyes. The eyes are lion eyes. The proportions and structure are real life lion anatomy, not based off of Disney. He's not even colored like Simba. It's only mildly anthropomorphized with a furrowed brow and downturned mouth. I'm curious what reminds people of Simba. I wonder if it's just because he's a lion with a facial expression. My friend on DeviantArt doesn't know why it reminds him of Simba, either, lol! 😂

Star Wars meets The Lion King

Pride Wars
Medium: digital painting

Star Wars: The Force Awakens characters in Lion King style! Kylo, why you gotta be such a grump? He's like that teenager on the High School playground who can't decide if he likes the girl, so he just bullies her.

Makucha Cougar

North American Guard: Makucha
Medium: digital painting

"So cougars say 'hello' with their teeth! So what?"

North American Guard
Janja, Cheezi, and Chungu

Makucha the leopard seems to have become a fan favorite, so I decided to add him into my North American Guard drawings. Here he is as a cougar/mountain lion!

Kiara Horse

Lion King Horses: Kiara
Medium: digital painting

The Lion King has to be one of my favorite movie franchises of all time. I don't care if it's aimed at kids; I love it!

I wanted to experiment with a species...crossover?...and see what the Lion King characters look like as horses! I've seen TLK deer and wolves around, but I haven't come across horses, although there probably are some somewhere. So here is Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara (from TLK 2: Simba's Pride) as a horse! I used the Simba's Pride design, not the Lion Guard design. The Lion Guard design is nice, but I'm not sure why they changed her.

Kovu Horse

Lion King Horses: Kovu
Medium: digital painting

The Lion King has to be one of my favorite movie franchises of all time. I don't care if it's aimed at kids; I love it!

I wanted to experiment with a species...crossover?...and see what the Lion King characters look like as horses! I've seen TLK deer and wolves around, but I haven't come across horses, although there probably are some somewhere. So here is Kovu (from TLK 2: Simba's Pride) as a horse!

Mufasa Horse

Lion King Horses: Mufasa
Medium: digital painting

The Lion King has to be one of my favorite movie franchises of all time. I don't care if it's aimed at kids; I love it!

I wanted to experiment with a species...crossover?...and see what the Lion King characters look like as horses! I've seen TLK deer and wolves around, but I haven't come across horses, although there probably are some somewhere. So here is King Mufasa as a horse! He's so big and fluffy. Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!

The Hobbit Meets The Lion King

Rises and Falls Like the Sun
Medium: digital painting

"A king's time as ruler rises as falls like the sun." -Mufasa

The Lion King meets The Hobbit! I dug up this drawing that I started a little before the "Desolation of Smaug" came out. The shading was awful, so I decided to chuck all the shading and start over with just the lines. The linework is from a few years ago so it's not up to par with my more recent art, but I still wanted to finish it! From left to right: Tauriel, Thranduil, and Legolas. Yeah, I know Tauriel's not an actual Tolkien character and that Legolas wasn't in the book, but I still wanted to draw them. I draw what I want. ;D

The Lion Guard

You're a Lot Like Me
Medium: digital painting

Wait, Simba has a son? Yes. Yes, he does.

In Disney Junior's new hit show The Lion Guard, King Simba's second cub Kion is the leader of the Lion Guard, the "team that protects the Pridelands and defends the Circle of Life." Kion and his friends Bunga the honeybadger (the bravest), Fuli the cheetah (the fastest), Beshte the hippo (the strongest), and Ono the egret (the keenest of sight) have many adventures solving problems and fighting off villains such as Janja the hyena and his clan. Kion has the power of the Roar, which means that when he roars, all the past great lions of the Pridelands roar with him.

Lion Guard isn't exactly like The Lion King, so anyone going into it expecting Lion King all over again will be disappointed. It's a television show, so the animation and music aren't as polished as the movies, although they're still quite nice, especially the animation and character designs. It's also aimed at very young kids, so you have to think of it as such. All in all it's a cute show!

Just like in Lion King, the hyenas are the villains. While little kids might not pick up on this, many people don't like that Disney type-cast an entire species as "evil." Yes, they're all just animals and it's a cartoon, but replace the word "hyena" with any race or demographic of people and suddenly you would never let your kids watch The Lion King. After Lion King's release in 1994, a lot of hyena-lovers and wildlife biologists were actually quite upset with Disney for such a negative portrayal of hyenas, but some people have asked if it's a good thing to subtly teach kids that it's okay to judge others on account of something superficial like what they look like. Did Disney mean to do this? I don't know, but you can't deny that it's a little strange how the animals are grouped by species, not individual behavior and actions. Scar was the only exception: a bad character from the "hero species."

Disney appears to want to fix this problem in one of their Lion Guard episodes, however, by introducing a new character: a good hyena named Jasiri. Kion is initially distrustful of Jasiri, but she eventually wins his trust (with a song, so Disney!) and explains to him that hyenas have a purpose in nature and shouldn't be regarded as useless vermin. (Spotted hyenas generally aren't scavengers in real life, but I'm not sure if the hyenas in the Lion King universe are supposed to be spotted hyenas in particular or just a general hyena of sorts.) Jasiri also doesn't demand that Kion compromise his ideals, which is actually quite different from the typical "acceptance" idea pushed in modern culture. Instead of asking him to accept an ideology that's contrary to his own, she says that they "both know a higher call." She and Kion acknowledge their differences; they don't try to hide them or pretend that they don't exist. She tells him not to judge others easily, like judgments based on appearance, first impressions, or preconceptions. I personally think Disney made a very good move with Jasiri. Kids can learn a valuable lesson from her, about both people and hyenas. Lion Guard fans are waiting to see if she'll make a return later on in the series!

"Sisi ni Sawa" song sung by Kion and Jasiri
More about Jasiri

More about Lion Guard (music)
More about Lion Guard (characters)

Vector Lion

Lion
Medium: vectors

Elemental Lions

Ice
Medium: digital painting

Flame
Medium: digital painting

Happy 20th Anniversary, Lion King!

Lion King 20th Anniversary
Medium: Photoshop paint

2014 marks the 20th Anniversary of Disney's The Lion King, which was released in 1994.

Elemental Flame

Fire
Medium: Photoshop paint

This girl is on FIRE!

Oh gosh, where did that come from? I don't even like that song. "Looks like a girl, but she's aflame..." Well, if it's not a girl, what is it? A bug-eyed alien?

Anyhow, this is the elemental flame lioness to go along with my elemental ice lion. He was lonely and wanted a mate. I think he got more than he bargained for. Ice Lion can be found here: http://kristengracehall.blogspot.com/2014/04/sparklelion.html

Sparklelion

Ice
Medium: Photoshop paint

This is a concept of an elemental Ice Lion. I was doodling, and he happened.

Lion King

Look at the Stars
Medium: Photoshop paint

Lioness

Huntress
Medium: Photoshop paint

Prints

Linocut is a printing technique where a block of linoleum is cut away to create a picture. The parts cut away will appear white (or will allow an already-existent color to show through). To get multiple colors with one piece of linoleum, you have to first cut away your whites, print, then cut away whatever you don't want to be your next color, print, and so on.

Camel - Single-color (black)
Medium: Linocut print

Camel - Multi-colored
Medium: Linocut print

Monoprinting is a printing technique where ink is applied to a flat surface such as a piece of glass and then brushed and/or scratched away to create lighter areas. It gives one or maybe two prints.

Monoprint horse

Lazy Lion
Unknown printing technique

 

Lion King

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
Media: Photoshop paint

There's a recent trend on the internet where you color kids' coloring pages. I think it's kind of silly, really, but I do love The Lion King! The story is actually quite good and from an artistic standpoint, the music and animation are outstanding.

It's a Lion. Enough said.

Lion Portrait
Pen and ink