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Just wanted to draw something fairly simple. Decided to draw Simba and Nala in my style, but Nala wasn't looking too good (definitely need to tweak my style to suit females, she just looked old) but I quite like Simba here.

The way I draw eyes, noses and larger chins aren't features of Ahadi and Mohatu as some people, I've noticed, think - they're just a style I'm adopting. So this is what Simba looks like with those features.

This is fairly quick, I used a reffed practise-sketch of Simba I drew ages back when I was initially changing features, and just adapted it.

Specific features:

Blend of Pridelander/Outlander noses with a little kink. One or no small wrinkles at base of nose for young/friendly looking lions, two for tougher/older lions.

The curl at the corner of the mouth - generally makes em look a bit tougher. May be quite small (especially on females) but always present, specially the black corner of the lip.

Ear rims - I plan to darken all ear rims, probably including females. Also the ears are bigger, and less rounded (with raggedy looking edges).

Squiggly lines on mane - will be adopted for all males, based loosely off a typical Disney comic style. Just adds a nice bit of movement to the main, less flow in one direction, makes the image 'busier' imo, which I feel is important for characters with sharp, flat shading often on simple backgrounds.

Larger chins - will be adopted in all lions, with face 'height' being affected by level of eyes in relation to nose (see Ahadi for comparison).

Eyes: 'Eyelashes' reversed, all lions (except, perhaps, females) will have the 'bags' under the eye and partially closed eyes. I like the rougher look it gives them.

Description
Just wanted to draw something fairly simple. Decided to draw Simba and Nala in my style, but Nala wasn't looking too good (definitely need to tweak my style to suit females, she just looked old) but I quite like Simba here.

The way I draw eyes, noses and larger chins aren't features of Ahadi and Mohatu as some people, I've noticed, think - they're just a style I'm adopting. So this is what Simba looks like with those features.

This is fairly quick, I used a reffed practise-sketch of Simba I drew ages back when I was initially changing features, and just adapted it.

Specific features:

Blend of Pridelander/Outlander noses with a little kink. One or no small wrinkles at base of nose for young/friendly looking lions, two for tougher/older lions.

The curl at the corner of the mouth - generally makes em look a bit tougher. May be quite small (especially on females) but always present, specially the black corner of the lip.

Ear rims - I plan to darken all ear rims, probably including females. Also the ears are bigger, and less rounded (with raggedy looking edges).

Squiggly lines on mane - will be adopted for all males, based loosely off a typical Disney comic style. Just adds a nice bit of movement to the main, less flow in one direction, makes the image 'busier' imo, which I feel is important for characters with sharp, flat shading often on simple backgrounds.

Larger chins - will be adopted in all lions, with face 'height' being affected by level of eyes in relation to nose (see Ahadi for comparison).

Eyes: 'Eyelashes' reversed, all lions (except, perhaps, females) will have the 'bags' under the eye and partially closed eyes. I like the rougher look it gives them.