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Can you teach me to draw Kion ?

They share a similar basic shape. All you need to do is learn that base shape in order to tweak it and you can draw other characters like Kovu or even make your own fan characters. 

Feel free to trace these shapes in order to learn. But don’t claim and share the results as yours. Keep them for yourself for referencing purposes.

Tracing should be a learning tool, not a popularity tool. 

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Do you have any tips for eyes? I have trouble with designing eyes that are unique or show off the character's personality, especially the TLG style as all the eyes are kinda more rounded and larger.

Hmm. You might study the Littlest Petshop style a bit? It may not be The Lion Guard similar in style but the eyes are so differently shaped and stylized that it could give you an idea for TLG. 

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Hi! Could you perhaps show how to draw the body of a TLK lion when you've already drawn the head? I'm really good at drawing heads but when I draw the bodies, I will be honest and say that it looks like a drunk 4 year old drew it.

Actually if you think of lions bodies as boxes as illustrated by Disney artists here

you shouldn’t have too much of a problem. But to break things down and help out I’ve put together a quick way to draw lion bodies

Using Kovu here, I’ll illustrate. 

Starting from the circle that makes up the hip, lion bodies are roughly 3 circles long from the hip to the chest

I hope this information has helped. 

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How would the quad-to-biped anthropomorphization technique look like on various Disney dogs?

Have you ever watched Oliver and Company? 

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Can you do a tutorial on how to make good Aristocats character coat colors, nose color, eye colors, and design?

Well, now the best way to approach that would be to use natural colors you'd find on a cat. The best thing to avoid when designing an Aristocats character would be recoloring existing characters. A brown recolored Marie looks like she fell into cow poo. 

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How would this quad-to-biped anthropomorphization technique look like on Disney cats outside of the TLK franchise?

Much like this actually. If you look hard enough, Disney does this quite well. 

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I believe disney has the answer to your question nebbie. Zira was very expressive with human like motion during her song sequence "My Lullaby". Though they exaggerated her proportions they still retained her animal behavior. To draw these, all you have to do is apply the same body construction only vertical as opposed to horizontal. When drawing "hands" Please note that their 'fingers' are thick and short. As you can see with Scar, they exaggerated his paws to where he could pull off that particular pose. It would be difficult if they kept his digits short in accordance to his quad form.

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The key thing to remember when drawing an Outlander is to think rat. They've sharp, long snouts much like a rat and their ears are quite large and curve up and out. 

Their bodies are sickly thin due to a life time of poverty in the outlands. 

When drawing the outlander head, be sure to box out their square skull after drawing the guide circle. It will help for an easier and pointier outlander. 

Their eyes are almond shaped and large. They also scowl quite a bit so don't forget to narrow those brows! 

Sorry it took so long to get this one out! 

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Hey there! Could you please do a tutorial on how to draw an average outlander? I keep having trouble with using the key features of their fur and body type, by the time I'm complete, the character looks more like a pride lander. I'd be most thankful for your help!

I think that can be arranged! 

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Can you please do a tutorial on how to draw baby Vitani?

If you're asking me to show you how to draw someone else's idea of baby vitani you're asking the wrong person. I'm strongly against using fan art as a reference and even more so as a resource. 

To draw baby vitani, all you have to do is apply the same techniques for baby simba except make some changes. 

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I was asked on deviantART to do a comparison between Vitani and Kiara and show how Outlanders differ from Pridelanders. As you can see, there are some pretty visible differences between the two. 

Do forgive my quick sketchiness. 

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Time for another tutorial brought to you by something that bothers me to no end in the TLK fandom. Lioness Pregnancies. 

If you guys did your research and actually looked at Lionesses in the wild that are pregnant, you'll see that they're not blimps on the verge of implosion or have soccer ball bellies. Their girth starts at the base of their rib cage and extends to their pelvis. Lionesses can have as many as five cubs per litter. And depending on how many cubs they're carrying is how big their tummies will be. 

Remember, the lioness still has to hunt in order to catch food to ensure the healthy growth of her unborn offspring. If she's a blimp or a soccer belly, that's impossible for her to carry that girth around! 

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Designing a fan character (Part 2)

Now that we've got the color test out of the way we can really buckle down and design that fan character to where he doesn't look like a recolor.

Starting with your basic shape build up, it's time to really design our little fellow. 

I started with roughing out his nose, deciding he'd have a pridelander nose. Noses come in two shapes with TLK lions. Pridelander, and outlander. Usually outlander noses define that the lion is evil. 

There are different ways to designing a chin as well. From fluffy, to barely fluffy, scraggy, and thin. I gave him a thin chin. 

Like chins, cheeks also come in a variety. I gave our cub here fluffy poofy cheeks. 

Now to focus on his eyes and eye brows. Personally, I think thick eye brows are amazing on characters. I have always thought that. It's a pattern seen throughout my character designing admittedly. So this fellow gets slightly thin yet thick eye brows and outlander eyes. 

Since he's going to be a male, he'll need a semi to full mane. If he's a teenager, his mane will stop just short at his chest. And his mane must be unique enough to bring him an interesting characteristic. Unlike Kovu, this fluffball has a ball of fluff that hangs down just above his eyes. Bangs and side burns also give him character. 

Now he's finally finished. I had to resize the basic construct of the fellow, but that's alright! It happens now and then. 

With all of him inked in and colored in, I gave him a slight darker color of his tail tip for his mane. 

Now that's what I call an original lion king character to be proud of!

When designing his bio and everything, remember. For every action there is a reaction. IE If you have something positive, you must have something negative. 

For instance, you can't make him all powerful and have every lion cower in his presence. He has to have weaknesses to balance him out. He's not superman. 

Good examples for our character's development would be: 

He's brave facing against other lions and big cats but cowers in fear at the sight of hyenas 

He has a mighty roar, but his strength isn't exactly up to par

He may sound vicious, but at heart, he acts like a cub

See how these examples sound good, and not too gary stu'ish? 

Never stick a neon colored bastard lion character that's got "a tragic past" in just so he can hump Scar. Never take Vitani, recolor her and claim "DIS MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER!", same goes with recoloring Simba and other characters. It's more fun to see what the character would look like from your own imagination, not from a template. 

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Designing a fan character (Part 1)

It was requested to know how to design a character. Designing a character is easy and fun so long as you know what you want on a character and how Disney designed them. 

I'm going to start out with a base from Imvuleadopts as a basic color test. This will not be the final outcome of our character. 

Now in Disney films, characters are natural bright colors. From oranges to yellows depending on the design and species. For Vitani, she was a very bright yellow, and for Simba, he was a neon orange. It's important to look at what colors lions are in the wild. 

Lions range and vary from tans to yellows and oranges. Their manes are also vibrant in colors. Remember, lions eyes vary from Brown to gold if you're wanting to design a more realistic lion character. Otherwise a character needs to have eye color that really catch their attention. 

So before we get into choosing their eye color, let's get to designing our lion. 

In the Disney films, lions have a dark main pelt and a lighter secondary pelt. 

Remember that when choosing the main color of the pelt, everything else will fall into place. 

The main pelt will determine the secondary pelt.

Above the eyes are always a few shades darker than the main pelt. And that color will determine what the inside of the ears are. 

The eye whites are always yellow. 

Now that we've got color theory on lion characters out of the way it's time to choose the sample cub's main pelt. His will be a dark orange. 

Now to fill in the rest of the colors 

He's mostly colored in by now! See how nicely his main pelt filled in the rest of his body color? 

However when it comes to designing outlanders or evil characters, their eye patches are usually one solid darker color. 

Now to move onto the eyes. Remember when I said characters need eye colors to bring attention to him? 

See how nice the eye colors accent his color? It brings your attention to the character doesn't it? 

Cubs noses are always pink and as they age, their noses grow darker in color in real lions. But since adults and cubs both have pink noses, let's give him a pink nose. 

Tail colors are really different on lions in Disney's The Lion King. They're always black, varying shades of tan, brown, and red. They can be any shade of color you want however. So lets give this fellow a light brown tail tuft 

He's looking cute now! On to part 2: defining characteristics. Without defining characteristics, our characters will just like clones of Simba or Vitani. No one likes vitani or Simba clones. 

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I don't know if you'll be able to make a tutorial on this; but, can you do one on how to make good Lion King character colors, and designs?

Sure! That's one of my favorite things on creating is the color choosing.

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It was a request on deviantART to break down a pose from a photo. I used Kovu as an example. 

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Can you do something like "how to draw back legs from different angles? I can never seem to do that... xP

I actually have done that here

But I suppose I could do some more.