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KaeMcSpadden β Colors of the Wind
Published: 2013-08-14 00:49:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 7077; Favourites: 396; Downloads: 30
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For , I was also assigned to draw Pocahontas (voiced by Irene Bedard and singing voiced by Judy Kuhn), who is one of my favorite Disney Princess because she is a free-spirit and is able to look out for herself. I loved her outfit in her redesign but I really hate how they made her face, it looks too masculine instead of graceful as it should look. The title comes from her iconic song which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.Done in markers, colored pencils, gel pens, touched up and leaves added in photoshop.
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She is so beautiful! My favourite Disney Princess!!!!!!Β
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Mine too, and Mulan.
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Mine is also Elsa... But I love all the princesses in general, just have 2 favourites.. 
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Elsa in one of my top favorite princesses too. I like Mulan, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Elsa, and Merida, but I have issues with Merida's personality, it just seems like a whiny little kid. Are you an identical or a fraternal twin?
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Merida's character bothers me too Β ......
Β My twin and I are fraternal twins
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Mulan and Pocahontas have better personalities because they speak their minds and stand for what they think is right, rather than bitch and complain.
All Merida did in the movie was whine to her mom "I don't wanna marry, I want to run around and have fun! Wah Wah Wah!!!" Like a five year old. A personality is also important in making a great character. People only saw Merida as someone who doesn't want to marry and wants to follow her own path, and that is great. But at least be a polite, humble and compassionate.Β
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And what path exactly is it?Β She even doesn't define what it is she wants, just what she doesn't want 
And as I think of this issue, there were several movies with the same problem- a character claims she/he is so great and can do more than expected, but somewhat fails to fulfill that. When a character is built well, its movie will succeed more.
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I think that path is open for interpretation, but I view it as finding our own happiness and going out there and see what it is outside of their home. I like making my female characters strong, brave, and able to fight for what is right.Β
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I love your interpretation, although I doubt if Merida will come up with the conclusion, maybe she feels what she wants, but still doesn't know how to define it, because of her young age. I think our little conversation hasΒ opened my eyesΒ regarding her, maybe I should watch the movie once more. I admit it is interesting analyzing Merida's character, I would have never imagined I will like Merida, but here I'm starting to!
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It is an interesting conversation. Also, my other reason why I have problems with Merida is the story of Brave itself. If you look at it, it is pretty much The Little Mermaid meets Brother Bear. So I find her story unoriginal.Β
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You have a good point! Also, I know the screenwriter was changed in the middle of the production, and I have noticed it in the movie. The lack of explanation for Merida's quote about "changing your destiny" disappointed me... Things weren't shown enough, and there were things not shown at all. It could have been a better movie :/Β All the talks about Merida and Brave makes me want to get into the fandom, read fanfics.... You really have changed my mind towards the movie and I'm thankful and glad for that!
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It was a great artistic discussion. I hope we and other artists will have a discussion full of thought like this one.
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Yes 
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I think this is a wonderful piece of art, but I'm having trouble understanding her position. Her legs look very akward and it looks like she's doing something impossible with her hips to get her legs like that. I live the colouring you have done here, though, you have truly added the colours of the wind here.
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It is probably the perspective, but her left leg is just bent at the knee while on the ball of the left foot. I guess I should have colored the right leg to show that it was farther back.
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Maybe. Because for me it now looks like he lef leg is coming from the right to the left in a weird poition. But beside that thing, I just adore your picture. Β I'm usually cared to use different colours in the shadows, because I'm always sure it won't work the way I hope, but you have made it work just wonderfully.
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Thanks. but her legs are not crossed. I learned to use color to shade because if you use black and grays, it dulls the picture.
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I'll have to learn to do that, too.
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That's good to learn, but you need a good knowledge of color, so you know which colors go with what.
Usually you would use the complementary color, of the main color. So for example, since her dress is like a cream or light yellow, you would use violets to shade. And I used blues for lighting in her hair because if you look closely in the movie, her hair is outlined with blue, and it contrasts with her skin tone.
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Thank you for the tip!
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Thanks, she is one of my favorite Disney characters, so I wanted it to look so enchanting and beautiful!
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and it does!!!
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Love it!!!! She's my favorite too and i just love the way you did here. I personally think her face looks great and not masculine at all.
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Thank you. It is not just her, but the other non-caucasion princesses looks white-washed and too PC in this year's remakes. Which is ironic because people are more pissed off over Merida's 2D look when she became a Disney Princesses, even though I don't have a problem with Merida's change since they made Rapunzel 3D into 2D.
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I personal like the 2D movies and characters better...jus me though. I think it takes alot more skill to create 2D movies.
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wow...this is so beautiful...i love it...
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love this one Β the added sparkle is great....
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woah cool, that looks epic... now am singing that song in my head.
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Thanks, I was listening to the version Vanessa Williams sang while drawing this to help give me the right feelings to make this turn out great!
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well,i think that worked brilliantly..and thinking to use pens..excellent..Β
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Me too, it is one of my favorite Disney films.
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Sweet!
Nice drawing, btw. ^^
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Your draw is Magnificent!! Congratulation I love it!!
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AWE!l she is so pretty!!! You did a great job.
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I love your dress design, she looks so happy
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I like your Pocahontas better than Disney's!
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Thanks, I do not like how they made her face in the redesign, they made it look too much like a man!
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Yea, she did have a masculine jaw didn't she? It was a very different style from their other works. I think they were trying to make a cartoon version of the original Pocahontas images. (She was a little masculine like that in her original 1800s photo/drawings)
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Their look is suppose to be contemporary, but for a couple of the princesses (specifically the non-caucasion princesses) looks white-washed and PC. But it ruined their facial structures. So this was my take on having the new outfit but while keeping the face looking as beautiful as it is suppose to be.
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Ah! That makes since now! You are very right on that! I didn't even notice until you pointed that out! That's sad!
But on the other hand- great job here!
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The Disney version of Pocahontas is modeled after Native American actress, Irene Bedard, who is also her voice actress.Β
The updated facial changes is not so prominent on the white princesses.
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Oh my gosh! I just looked up Irene and Pocahontas does look just like her!
I've always thought it was kind of cool how they reference the cartoon and animated characters to the people that voice them.
There's so many Princess's it's kind of interesting how Disney has glorified them by catering them to the youngsters of today. It is interesting that they went from a more realistic face to more cartoon style faces through the years.
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It is quite fascinating, I am majoring in animation at my college and how they do it is animators would video tape the voice actor/actress recording their lines and copy their facial expressions and emotion while saying their lines. So they would often make the cartoon character look like their actor, or have a prominent feature that the actor has.
They could have referenced Irene Bedard's real life look to make Pocahontas's remake look more beautiful and less masculine, since Irene was one of the most beautiful women in one of the People magazine issues.
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