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It's an entry for this contest: fav.me/d6zsqlv

"Now I'm the Royal Vizier, and I can do whatever. I. want."
Instead of running away at the beginning of the Aladdin movie, Jasmine desides to cross dress.
Well, she did it in one episode of the series. Too bad Mozenrath hadn't seen her in that episode. It probably would've broken his brain.

The idea was that Jasmine used her whip to grab Jafar's clothes (leaving Jafar a bit clueless as to where they've gone). She's wearing her hair up because that's how she wears it when she's being mischievous. (by the way, I read a little on whip anatomy when drawing the whip. Though it's mainly referenced from the series)

Why must I always wait until the last moment on these things? :/
It's the first time I used a 3px brush for quite awhile. I'd changed to using a 5px brush for pictures because I felt it could give more variety on width and the opacity's more uniform, but the lineart tends to be quite thick that way. The lineart for this is a bit sketchy, but I also did a lot of erasing to keep the lines in shape. So the lines are thinner, and are semi-transparent in spots.
One of the last things I did was draw and color the turban (...and then I motion blurred it). It was really hard for me to figure out the hangy part of it. I think I did most of the background as a way of procrastinating doing the final design of the turban (it seems I procrastinated a lot, because there's a lot in the bg). I finally got something that looked halfway good, though I think the turban looks like an octopus or something now (but that might be a good thing, if it reminds me of a disney sea creature that was based on spinning fabric).
The background is based on the hallway outside of Jasmine's room. I watched the first movie again, with an eye for backgrounds, and took over 300 screenshots (when the bg changes), and I found that there's not many hallways shown. ...I might should've just taken one of the hallways from the series. (I did finally find a part of the movie that shows the opposite wall of Aladdin's place, though. I'll be looking back at that later)
Did you ever notice how incredibly skinny Jafar is? I didn't really notice until I tried drawing him. The main reference for him was that little scene where he thinks he has the lamp and then finds he doesn't.
I used disneyscreencaps.com for reference for Jafar's clothes (and a little for Jafar, and to check his height against Jasmine). That site has a huge amount of screenshots, though it's hard to find what I'm looking for because there's so many. They're a little better quality than the DVD I have, though.
After finishing up the bg, I copied and merged some layers, and added noise to the walls, while using Photoshop's mixer brush to put stripes in the gold trim, doorway, and pillar. The floor was pretty rushed. I did find that I could make quick reflections using Distort, though. I may or may not later make better squiggly things in the floor. I did them super fast, last minute.
I recorded myself spinning a keychain flashlight for reference for Jasmine's hand (since it seems I have trouble positioning my hand the right way unless I'm spinning something). I also looked back at the video when drawing the turban (though it didn't help much for the hangy thing, and I couldn't find anything similiar enough to it to spin on my finger. The thought of a girl's skirt spinning came to mind, but looking up images of that didn't help all that much either). I also noticed that my wrist didn't seem to bend while spinning, but I instead seemed to keep balance from my elbow (and possibly shoulder) and my shirt sleeve moved. So when I motion blurred stuff, I tried to do it that way.
Here's part of the beginning sketch for the picture. After I did it, I redrew it (and tried looking in the mirror to see how the pose would look), before scanning it and modifying it with references of Jasmine. (The Jafar sketch wasn't pretty enough to show. I hadn't really drawn him before and couldn't draw him without references)
If I think people would be interested, I might upload some close-up shots of things. It always seems like there's some details in pictures that aren't really visible unless the image is viewed at 200%. And I saved this at 50%.

edit:
It made second place. ^_^ here's a journal entry mentioning the entries and places: fav.me/d7eu46l

Description
It's an entry for this contest: fav.me/d6zsqlv

"Now I'm the Royal Vizier, and I can do whatever. I. want."
Instead of running away at the beginning of the Aladdin movie, Jasmine desides to cross dress.
Well, she did it in one episode of the series. Too bad Mozenrath hadn't seen her in that episode. It probably would've broken his brain.

The idea was that Jasmine used her whip to grab Jafar's clothes (leaving Jafar a bit clueless as to where they've gone). She's wearing her hair up because that's how she wears it when she's being mischievous. (by the way, I read a little on whip anatomy when drawing the whip. Though it's mainly referenced from the series)

Why must I always wait until the last moment on these things? :/
It's the first time I used a 3px brush for quite awhile. I'd changed to using a 5px brush for pictures because I felt it could give more variety on width and the opacity's more uniform, but the lineart tends to be quite thick that way. The lineart for this is a bit sketchy, but I also did a lot of erasing to keep the lines in shape. So the lines are thinner, and are semi-transparent in spots.
One of the last things I did was draw and color the turban (...and then I motion blurred it). It was really hard for me to figure out the hangy part of it. I think I did most of the background as a way of procrastinating doing the final design of the turban (it seems I procrastinated a lot, because there's a lot in the bg). I finally got something that looked halfway good, though I think the turban looks like an octopus or something now (but that might be a good thing, if it reminds me of a disney sea creature that was based on spinning fabric).
The background is based on the hallway outside of Jasmine's room. I watched the first movie again, with an eye for backgrounds, and took over 300 screenshots (when the bg changes), and I found that there's not many hallways shown. ...I might should've just taken one of the hallways from the series. (I did finally find a part of the movie that shows the opposite wall of Aladdin's place, though. I'll be looking back at that later)
Did you ever notice how incredibly skinny Jafar is? I didn't really notice until I tried drawing him. The main reference for him was that little scene where he thinks he has the lamp and then finds he doesn't.
I used disneyscreencaps.com for reference for Jafar's clothes (and a little for Jafar, and to check his height against Jasmine). That site has a huge amount of screenshots, though it's hard to find what I'm looking for because there's so many. They're a little better quality than the DVD I have, though.
After finishing up the bg, I copied and merged some layers, and added noise to the walls, while using Photoshop's mixer brush to put stripes in the gold trim, doorway, and pillar. The floor was pretty rushed. I did find that I could make quick reflections using Distort, though. I may or may not later make better squiggly things in the floor. I did them super fast, last minute.
I recorded myself spinning a keychain flashlight for reference for Jasmine's hand (since it seems I have trouble positioning my hand the right way unless I'm spinning something). I also looked back at the video when drawing the turban (though it didn't help much for the hangy thing, and I couldn't find anything similiar enough to it to spin on my finger. The thought of a girl's skirt spinning came to mind, but looking up images of that didn't help all that much either). I also noticed that my wrist didn't seem to bend while spinning, but I instead seemed to keep balance from my elbow (and possibly shoulder) and my shirt sleeve moved. So when I motion blurred stuff, I tried to do it that way.
Here's part of the beginning sketch for the picture. After I did it, I redrew it (and tried looking in the mirror to see how the pose would look), before scanning it and modifying it with references of Jasmine. (The Jafar sketch wasn't pretty enough to show. I hadn't really drawn him before and couldn't draw him without references)
If I think people would be interested, I might upload some close-up shots of things. It always seems like there's some details in pictures that aren't really visible unless the image is viewed at 200%. And I saved this at 50%.

edit:
It made second place. ^_^ here's a journal entry mentioning the entries and places: fav.me/d7eu46l