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So before I worked on my first Six Fanart Challenge in July, I first have to practice on improving my own personal art styles for nearly two weeks (June 17-30) in order to do that challenge as well as rediscovering what my own artistic identity should look like since I haven't done any form of cartooning for a long time now (besides both my cartoon portrait of my sister from 2016 and my Stephen Hillenburg tribute from 2018) while I'm mostly used to doing traditionally realistic drawings from college for some time.

Anyways, here's one of my 36 practice sketches when I decided to draw Nala from the 1994 animated Disney film "The Lion King" for my inspiration based off from Aaron Blaise's style. This drawing was also based off from one of his video animation lessons on his YouTube channel and so here's the link to this image reference source: (m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_npWFl5… ).

Aaron Blaise (b. 1968) is a former Disney supervising animator who was in charge of working on their characters such as the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), Rajah from "Aladdin" (1992), Young Nala from "The Lion King" (1994), Pocahontas from its 1995 animated film, and both Yao and The Ancestors from "Mulan" (1998); although he did initially created his own villain for that film during its pre-production but ended up being rejected in favor of Shan Yu as explained from one of his YouTube videos of him showing off his old Disney animation collections that he worked on back in the 1990s and so I decided to provide a link of it here for anyone to check out: (m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpu8doa… ). His other additional animation jobs that he was credited for would be as an assistant animator for both two of the Roger Rabbit short films "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (1990) and "Trail Mix-Up" (1993) as well as being an assistant animator for "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990), being both the supervising animator and character designer for the John Lewis & Partners Christmas advert commercial "The Bear and the Hare" in 2013, and even being the creature designer for the 2016 short film "The Dream Catcher". Also, he co-directed his first and only animated Disney film "Brother Bear" (2003) but he's still however working on two more animated projects while both of them are in production independently as those planned films would be "The Legend of Tembo" and "Art Story" and even still currently working on his own animated short film project "Snow Bear". Despite not working for Disney anymore, he's still quite active online with his animation tutorial lessons and digital painting courses for anyone to pay for and try those programs out at home from his website The Art of Aaron Blaise as he also would demonstrate those lessons on his YouTube channel daily and even regularly travels across the country to speak at a variety of different events, colleges and more as he still currently works on a number of other animated projects for various different studios as a freelancer. He also had received two nominations for his "Brother Bear" film in 2004; which were both an Oscar for Best Animated Feature and an INOCA Award at the International Online Cinema Awards for that same category as well.

By the way, here are the links to both his Twitter, Facebook, YouTube channel and his website for anyone who are either interested in his works or want to take animation/digital art lessons from him:

Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/aaronblaise…
Facebook: m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
YouTube: m.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaise…
Website: creatureartteacher.com/

Description
So before I worked on my first Six Fanart Challenge in July, I first have to practice on improving my own personal art styles for nearly two weeks (June 17-30) in order to do that challenge as well as rediscovering what my own artistic identity should look like since I haven't done any form of cartooning for a long time now (besides both my cartoon portrait of my sister from 2016 and my Stephen Hillenburg tribute from 2018) while I'm mostly used to doing traditionally realistic drawings from college for some time.

Anyways, here's one of my 36 practice sketches when I decided to draw Nala from the 1994 animated Disney film "The Lion King" for my inspiration based off from Aaron Blaise's style. This drawing was also based off from one of his video animation lessons on his YouTube channel and so here's the link to this image reference source: (m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_npWFl5… ).

Aaron Blaise (b. 1968) is a former Disney supervising animator who was in charge of working on their characters such as the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), Rajah from "Aladdin" (1992), Young Nala from "The Lion King" (1994), Pocahontas from its 1995 animated film, and both Yao and The Ancestors from "Mulan" (1998); although he did initially created his own villain for that film during its pre-production but ended up being rejected in favor of Shan Yu as explained from one of his YouTube videos of him showing off his old Disney animation collections that he worked on back in the 1990s and so I decided to provide a link of it here for anyone to check out: (m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpu8doa… ). His other additional animation jobs that he was credited for would be as an assistant animator for both two of the Roger Rabbit short films "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (1990) and "Trail Mix-Up" (1993) as well as being an assistant animator for "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990), being both the supervising animator and character designer for the John Lewis & Partners Christmas advert commercial "The Bear and the Hare" in 2013, and even being the creature designer for the 2016 short film "The Dream Catcher". Also, he co-directed his first and only animated Disney film "Brother Bear" (2003) but he's still however working on two more animated projects while both of them are in production independently as those planned films would be "The Legend of Tembo" and "Art Story" and even still currently working on his own animated short film project "Snow Bear". Despite not working for Disney anymore, he's still quite active online with his animation tutorial lessons and digital painting courses for anyone to pay for and try those programs out at home from his website The Art of Aaron Blaise as he also would demonstrate those lessons on his YouTube channel daily and even regularly travels across the country to speak at a variety of different events, colleges and more as he still currently works on a number of other animated projects for various different studios as a freelancer. He also had received two nominations for his "Brother Bear" film in 2004; which were both an Oscar for Best Animated Feature and an INOCA Award at the International Online Cinema Awards for that same category as well.

By the way, here are the links to both his Twitter, Facebook, YouTube channel and his website for anyone who are either interested in his works or want to take animation/digital art lessons from him:

Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/aaronblaise…
Facebook: m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
YouTube: m.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaise…
Website: creatureartteacher.com/