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I admit, I reacted quite happily as I saw a new meme by my good friend since her memes are pretty much always fun. And I like remember the things that made me happy in my childhood.
So here are 10 movies that I loved very much as a kid.

The order is more or less random, I'm starting from the left upper corner and go clockwise:

Monty Python's Life of Brian
Sounds very strange, I know. And yes, neither did I understand all the jokes and references nor the significance of this movie. But somehow it still got me so much that it stood the test of time. Now it is THE favourite movie. Back then I just enjoyed watching and listening to the weirdness I was witnessing and the strange characters

Yellow Submarine
I loved the Beatles music as a kid and this was an awesome combination: Beatles music + animation (also some I wasn't seeing anywhere else) + weird-ass sh*t going on in these fantasy worlds with these original weird characters. I remember that me and my sister even reenacted scenes while having Beatles songs played in the background

The Last Unicorn
Outside of a few cartoons on TV this was probably the first contact to Anime in my life. Oh and what an impressive one.
I count myself to those who loved and still love the movie. It is wonderful animation accompanied by wonderful settings and colours, a great cast, beautiful music and a quite exciting story.

The Lion King
This is the Disney movie that represents all the Disney movies I loved. And the one that made me the most crazy. I bekame a TLK fanatic when this came out. I used to get every piece of merchandise I could collect, I ordered the VHS very early and watched it countless times, I studied the movie quite intensivly (like pausing scenes to study the animation or like learning the body types of the lion characters), I drew tons of fanarts and even comic pages...you get it. I was a huge fan. This is why the movie is on the list.

Pippi Longstocking
This is the first movie adaptation of the Swedish Pippi Longstocking books. To me it was a great world: this Swedish village with the colourful mansion in it, the heroine who led a life to dream of, the children characters in general who had interesting adventures with burglars; candy or meeting Pippis pirate daddy...it was a world for its own and I loved it so much.

Werner Beinhart!
One of the biggest German animated movies also got one of my favourites. I also drew scenes out of the movies, I even remember watching it on TV when I was visiting a befriended family in East Germany shortly after the German reunification (we had much fun). It was very funny for me as a kid, to say the least.

Asterix the Gaul
To be honest, it was hard to decide which of the earlier Asterix movies was my favourite back then. But let's say it is the very first one that started it all. The music, the dialogues, the quite different animation...it had some influence on me. But don't get me wrong, the two movies after it are also big favourites.

The Neverending Story
This was probably the biggest fantasy movie for me in my childhood (also because I got the chance to see, touch and even ride some of the original creatures out of the movie in the Bavaria Filmstudios, Germany). It impressed me, it was exciting, it was sad (I just say: Horse) and it was inspiring. I was not that fond of reading at a young age. But who thought that a fantasy movie about reading got me?

My little Pony: The Movie
Yeees, I admit: It was a childhood favourite and that is why I still consider it a piece of childhood (next to the cartoon, the audio books and the toys). Like my sister I enjoyed "My little Pony" and back then I was also more tolerant towards elements like the terrible songs or some awkward animation. But to see the whole Ponyland in serious constant danger was something different.

The Land before Time
My favourite Don Bluth movie and it is that still. Also one heavy tearjerker. And very impressive since all the characters are dinosaurs. But very well animated ones. And the whole travel story combined with constant dangers like starvation or the T-Rex was very thrilling. But to make sure: No Bluth movie has ever traumatized me.
Also, I had this movie as an audio cassette to listen to which was also very enjoyable.


Other movies I enjoyed so much as a kid:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
...And now for something completely different
Other Disney movies (like The Jungle Book, The Sword and the Stone, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Oliver & Company, Fantasia, Robin Hood)
All Dogs go to Heaven
Otto der Film
Otto der neue Film
Asterix & Cleopatra
The twelve Tasks of Asterix
Valhalla
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

This is Ralph Sieghard, an original character created by the German YouTuber "Telefonziege" (and designed by me). It's the patriotic German Hitler-like goat who also likes to waste the time of phone scammers and bother them with his own issues (like his dislike for the English language).

If you are interested in this German scambaiting and edutainment channel, please check out this link:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHI…

Sieghard's speciality is also making and selling Lebkuchenherzen (gingerbread hearts). I guess this is how he makes a living.

And since gingerbread is very popular in Germany during Christmas time, he might also sell it on a Christmas market. So I had the idea of putting him in a booth and waiting for customers. It started with a simple sketch and I wanted to make something more out of it.

Admittingly it's mostly understandable for German-speaking people but let's say, I would imagine Sieghard's gingerbread hearts designs like this, with all kinds of greetings based on the "good old times" (sarcasm).

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

My painting done in the nick of time for Hanukkah 2018.
Reminder: I'm not Jewish but interested in Jewish culture, also in their traditions, especially Hanukkah which falls around Christmas time, is pretty beautiful and is problably the most famous Jewish holiday for "Goys" like me.

As you can see, I chose Kyle Brovloski and his family from the cartoon "South Park" as a motif.
You see Kyle himself, his cousin (also named Kyle) and adopted baby brother Ike playing a game of Dreidel while Kyle's parents happily watch.

What I tried to do here is not only a small tribute to Hanukkah and South Park, not only to practice some inking again, but also to create a cozy, glowing, peaceful atmosphere while having a not-so-perfect family tradition going on here (you know, Cousin Kyle is anything but popular with the kids of South Park and especially Kyle Brovlofski suffers from his cousin's issues, stereotyped behaviour and his tale-telling towards the strict mom whenever there's even a harmless conflict).

And I chose to try out black and blue ink together. I'm aware that blue is not a warm colour but since a lot of Hanukkah decorations and symbols appear blue, I chose to use it here, too.

Well, I hope you like it and to all the Jewish artists here I wish a very happy festival of lights!

Done with black and blue Indian ink.

So, the latest "She-Ra" reboot on Netflix...
I saw it. All 13 episodes of the only season that has been published so far.
You can read my opinion in a nutshell at the bottom of this description text*.
But let's get to this weirdass random fanart.

I couldn't help but having my attention drawn to background stuff in this show like objects and of course characters. Characters that are just there to fill some space and are not suppoused to play a bigger role or to return. Because a lot of that is quite funny to look at.
In the 8th episode "Princess Prom", where a whole bunch of princesses and their partners/friends visit a prom held by Princess Frosta (including She-Ra and her buddies), there are random nameless, silent figures hanging around in the background.
One of them is this princess (at least I guess she is one according to her little crown), always grumpy, mostly with closed eyes (like the main character in the game "Undertale"), always holding this seemingly empty mug in her hand and obviously cannot care less about this event (she looks like she didn't prepare herself after getting up from bed ).
I felt amused whenever she appeared in the background (during a story that was mostly painful) and I just call her "coffee princess" since her name is never revealed.
Oh and btw this episode gives me more inspiration for a couple of more BG character redraws.

I redrew her in my own style but in the same pose and mood.

Just imagine her appearing in the opening of the cartoon or being asked if she wants to join the rebellion. I find that thought hilarious. What would her super power be? Making enemies asleep?

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

*now my opinion to this She-Ra reboot in case you are interested:
At least this first season is almost completely horrible. It is written badly, pretty much all the characters are nerve-racking, acting inconsistently and unlikeable, the anime-ish design is ugly (except for a few backgrounds) and cheap looking and the battle between good and bad is presented so horribly wrong.
It made me feel so angry and disappointed that I even think that making a fanart of this new She-Ra, her buddies or her foes would be a waste of energy and time (which makes me sad).
And please don't come with "What do you know, you are not a little girl/teen", "You only have the 1980's She-Ra on your mind" or "Are you a LGTB hater?". All of that is nonsense. I can love good cartoons as well as a kid, I tried my best to see this reboot with and open mind and I am totally into LGTB support (but to see this topic presented in a good way - without having male characters thrown out or presented as idiots because they're male - watch "Steven Universe").
That is my opinion in a (big) nutshell.