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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 Roger Rabbit from its 1988 live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for my inspiration based off from Richard Williams' style as well as drawing Simba from its 1994 animated Disney film "The Lion King" for my inspiration based off from Mark Henn's style. These two drawings of Roger were based off from both a production cel of him from the film and the other from a promotional picture between him and Eddie while my Simba drawing was based off from one of its scenes in the film. Here are the links to these image reference sources: (comics.ha.com/itm/animation-ar… )/(www.mentalfloss.com/article/62… )/(www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.… ).

Richard Williams (1933-2019) was a Canadian-British veteran animator, voice actor, director and writer who was well-known for being the animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" as he ended up receiving both two Academy Awards (which was both the Best Special Effects Award and a Special Achievement Award) and a BAFTA Film Award for the same category in 1989 and especially being well-known for his unfinished magnum opus animated film "The Thief and the Cobbler", which held the Guinness World Record for having the longest production time in cinema history as it was constantly in and out of production between 1964-1995 (a total of 31 years in the making). Also, he had made dozens of animated commercials, short films and a couple of TV holiday specials (one of them winning an Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film in 1972 for his holiday special "A Christmas Carol" as well as being the only TV special to win in that category before changing the rules afterwards) from his own animation studio in Soho, UK from the 1960s before he permanently closed it down in the mid-1990s after the box-office failure of his butchered life-long masterpiece and even worked on animated title sequences for live-actions films from the 1960s-1970s (especially for the intros of the "Pink Panther" films). Not only that but he even published his own best-selling "how to" animation manual guidebook "The Animator's Survival Kit" in 2001 before it was later revised in 2009 (I now own a copy of it at home) as well as being made into both a 16-DVD box set and an iOS app and that his manual book has been considered to be the holy bible for animation college students in recent years internationally. And more recently, he has been working at Aardman in Bristol, UK as an "artist in residence" since 2008 when he worked on his final two animated short films "Circus Drawings" in 2010 and "Prologue" in 2015, which was nominated at both the Academy Awards and BAFTA a year later for their Best Animated Short Film categories and that it was originally intended to be a sneak peek for his planned future animated feature film based off from the Ancient Greek comedy "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes (446-386 BC) but sadly he died of cancer about a year ago while he was still in production on that second unfinished film of his. Overall, he had worked at his studio Richard Williams Animation Ltd. as well as working as a freelance artist for both Famous Artists Productions, United Artists, MGM, Paramount (UK division), Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Universal, British Lion Films Ltd., ABC, Touchstone, Amblin Entertainment, Silver Screen Partners, Buena Vista (a Disney distribution division), Allied Filmmakers, Warner Bros and many more from 1957 'til his death in 2019. He also won 3 Oscars (1 nomination), 1 BAFTA (1 nomination), 1 Primetime Emmy, 1 Saturn Award, 2 Annie Awards, 2 Special Awards from both the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and the Evening Standard British Film Awards for the Roger Rabbit film and over 250 other international awards in his lifetime.

Mark Henn (b. 1958) is a Disney supervising animator who was well-known for animating on some Disney princesses/heroines such as Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Fa Mulan, and Tiana as well as animating other characters before and after the Disney Renaissance such as Mickey Mouse from "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983), Basil and Doctor David Q. Dawson from "The Great Mouse Detective" (1986), Oliver and Dodger from "Oliver & Company" (1988), Bernard and Bianca from "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990), Young Simba from "The Lion King" (which I drew above obviously), Fa Zhou from "Mulan" (1998), the Hula Dancers from "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), Grace, Wesley, Rusty and Pearl Gesner from "Home on the Ranch" (2004), Ronno from "Bambi II" (2006), Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin from "Winnie the Pooh" (2011), Tinker Bell from "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013), and Judy Hopps and Bellwether from "Zootopia" (2016). He also won a Winsor McCay Award in 2013 for his lifetime achievement in animation along with 3 Annie nominations for both "The Lion King", "Mulan" and "Winnie the Pooh" and even winning a Silver Gryphon for the Best Short Film at the Giffoni Film Festival for his Disney short film "John Henry" in 2000.

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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 Roger Rabbit from its 1988 live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for my inspiration based off from Richard Williams' style as well as drawing Simba from its 1994 animated Disney film "The Lion King" for my inspiration based off from Mark Henn's style. These two drawings of Roger were based off from both a production cel of him from the film and the other from a promotional picture between him and Eddie while my Simba drawing was based off from one of its scenes in the film. Here are the links to these image reference sources: (comics.ha.com/itm/animation-ar… )/(www.mentalfloss.com/article/62… )/(www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.… ).

Richard Williams (1933-2019) was a Canadian-British veteran animator, voice actor, director and writer who was well-known for being the animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" as he ended up receiving both two Academy Awards (which was both the Best Special Effects Award and a Special Achievement Award) and a BAFTA Film Award for the same category in 1989 and especially being well-known for his unfinished magnum opus animated film "The Thief and the Cobbler", which held the Guinness World Record for having the longest production time in cinema history as it was constantly in and out of production between 1964-1995 (a total of 31 years in the making). Also, he had made dozens of animated commercials, short films and a couple of TV holiday specials (one of them winning an Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film in 1972 for his holiday special "A Christmas Carol" as well as being the only TV special to win in that category before changing the rules afterwards) from his own animation studio in Soho, UK from the 1960s before he permanently closed it down in the mid-1990s after the box-office failure of his butchered life-long masterpiece and even worked on animated title sequences for live-actions films from the 1960s-1970s (especially for the intros of the "Pink Panther" films). Not only that but he even published his own best-selling "how to" animation manual guidebook "The Animator's Survival Kit" in 2001 before it was later revised in 2009 (I now own a copy of it at home) as well as being made into both a 16-DVD box set and an iOS app and that his manual book has been considered to be the holy bible for animation college students in recent years internationally. And more recently, he has been working at Aardman in Bristol, UK as an "artist in residence" since 2008 when he worked on his final two animated short films "Circus Drawings" in 2010 and "Prologue" in 2015, which was nominated at both the Academy Awards and BAFTA a year later for their Best Animated Short Film categories and that it was originally intended to be a sneak peek for his planned future animated feature film based off from the Ancient Greek comedy "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes (446-386 BC) but sadly he died of cancer about a year ago while he was still in production on that second unfinished film of his. Overall, he had worked at his studio Richard Williams Animation Ltd. as well as working as a freelance artist for both Famous Artists Productions, United Artists, MGM, Paramount (UK division), Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Universal, British Lion Films Ltd., ABC, Touchstone, Amblin Entertainment, Silver Screen Partners, Buena Vista (a Disney distribution division), Allied Filmmakers, Warner Bros and many more from 1957 'til his death in 2019. He also won 3 Oscars (1 nomination), 1 BAFTA (1 nomination), 1 Primetime Emmy, 1 Saturn Award, 2 Annie Awards, 2 Special Awards from both the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and the Evening Standard British Film Awards for the Roger Rabbit film and over 250 other international awards in his lifetime.

Mark Henn (b. 1958) is a Disney supervising animator who was well-known for animating on some Disney princesses/heroines such as Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Fa Mulan, and Tiana as well as animating other characters before and after the Disney Renaissance such as Mickey Mouse from "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983), Basil and Doctor David Q. Dawson from "The Great Mouse Detective" (1986), Oliver and Dodger from "Oliver & Company" (1988), Bernard and Bianca from "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990), Young Simba from "The Lion King" (which I drew above obviously), Fa Zhou from "Mulan" (1998), the Hula Dancers from "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), Grace, Wesley, Rusty and Pearl Gesner from "Home on the Ranch" (2004), Ronno from "Bambi II" (2006), Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin from "Winnie the Pooh" (2011), Tinker Bell from "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013), and Judy Hopps and Bellwether from "Zootopia" (2016). He also won a Winsor McCay Award in 2013 for his lifetime achievement in animation along with 3 Annie nominations for both "The Lion King", "Mulan" and "Winnie the Pooh" and even winning a Silver Gryphon for the Best Short Film at the Giffoni Film Festival for his Disney short film "John Henry" in 2000.