Beauty And The Beast

and I had a little coincidence recently as I was thinking of paying homage to my most favorite fairytale and so was he. It was weird!

So anyhoo, beauty and the beast! I pay my respects to two things here really; the original tale itself AND the one that I DUG as a kid, the styles that were used in the anime version of Beauty and the Beast were AWESOME to me, and really? You have ot hand it to them---THEY know how to make something look disturbing. Really. I loved the Disney version too, HOWEVER one thing that got me was that the Beast WAS NOT ugly as sin it it. I couldn't help but say:"Aww. Lion. :3" followed by a petting of said lion, because really. Lions are beautiful and majestic--not hideous. Even with horns. Hell,with horns lions are just that much cooler. SO, since the anime came out BEFORE the Disney version ((Grimms Fairytale Classics, for those who are curious--they aired on Nick way back when and along with Ringing Bell they were my first exposure to anime )), I already had a fair and healthy taste of a TRULY gruesome-yet-awesome-as-hell beast; so the most scary thing about the Disney version to ME, was that blasted CANDLEGUYS raging french accent.

Ya'll ever catch that? The candle dude says "but you love her!" in the movie, HOWEVER with accent added, it sounds MORE like this:"But you louve HURL!"

There is nothing lovely about hurl.

So at eight, I had the thought 'wow, the beast has one awful awful fetish if he loves BARF'.

I made my sister LOL at that when I brought it up once while we were driving down Hill Rd. BUT YOU LOVE HURL!

Alrighty! So, about my art. I ACTUALLY decided to take my time with this one since it is one of my ABSOLUTELY most loved things of all, and I wanted everything to reflect the anime itself, but in MY style. I spent from 8PM until 2:16AM tonight on it, and I spent a total of three hours on it in three days prior to this finale. I decided to tinker with my many mediums and play with saturation properties, contrast and stuff WHICH LET ME TELL YOU---needs to be practiced when using traditional mediums. There is copic, sharpie, roseart, sakura, and prismacolor in this pic, there is white ink, paint pen, watercolor pencil, and colored pencil combined in this one. I am VERY proud and I do not think I could have done better.

Regardless, BECAUSE this anime was an emotional pinnacle that REALLY actually set the base for my morals today; I would happily render more images in its honor.

((hint: You can watch the anime short in three parts over on youtube. FREAKING sweet man. I love how they captured raw emotion. Go over there, watch, and see if YOU can tell me what my favorite part in the whole story is. I'll give you another hint---I related to it, and it made me cry my eyes out because NOBODY should feel that bad about themselves. ))