Wednesday 3 November 2010

Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent

Seeing as today's topic was "Sleeping Beauty", I decided to draw the big bad from the Disney classic, Maleficent.


I didn't really add much of my own style to this, as the original design is so flawless. In my opinion, she's the greatest of the Disney villains. I know in some circles Sleeping Beauty is considered a flawed film: Its medieval-tapestry-inspired design is too stiff,  it has boring leads, it's too dark (true fact- every shade of paint used in the film was mixed with some black), yadda yadda.

I have my own theory for the criticism against it-- Haters gotta hate.


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5 comments:

  1. I didn't know who did this until I read the name!
    Very well done.

    I always thought the greatest Disney villains were Herbert Sorrell, David Hilberman or William Pomerance!

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  2. Yeah, I pretty much totally sublimated my own style to try my hand at Disney. It really is a perfect design.

    And of course I meant the greatest non-communist Disney villain. Lousy pinkos.

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  3. Nice work George. She is utterly splendid. The bad sexy mommy you never had.

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  4. Yes, there is her sexiness, isn't there? Hypothetically Island speaking, I'd much rather be trapped with her than, say Ursula the Sea-Witch or Madame Mim. Even the Wicked Queen from Snow White got reeeeal ugly.

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  5. Nice work! Coincidentally, just saw the film for the first time last week! Some thoughts here:

    http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/2010/10/daily-post-three-ladies-thoughts-about.html

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