Something I learned after trying to draw Disney characters a few times: You can't just copy one drawing and think you've learned how to draw a character. They look different from every angle and there's a tremendous range of facial expressions, which you can really see in this video.
There some disney characters I've tried drawing and nailed. Some made me wanna tear my hair out. There is a tutorial on how to draw ariel. The only thing that threw me off was the eyes and hair
The Lion King shaped my life way more than any other influence my whole upbringing. At 32 now I still have hakuna matata help me not taking everything too seriously in life, I kind of discovered my love for singing with both the lion king and pocahontas, and my first ever wish to learn to draw came from how intense my love and fascination for the lion king was and still is. I was just spellbound by how art could bridge reality and cartoon with real anatomy and I remember just awestruck staring at how everything was moving like shoulder blades, toes, ears, how gravity was going on, size differences, all of it. The magic is still there for me even! Before the lion king all animated main character animals walked on 2 legs pretty much, like Baloo (with Bagheera as the exception if he can count as a main character) so it will probably forever be my all time favorite movie because of how huge that change and feel was for me. I feel so lucky that I was old enough to remember when the world was gifted this masterpiece but young enough to get so much positive from it. 💜 Thank you for this tutorial! And thank you for all the hard work you and everyone else put into all those hours back then. It means the world to so many of my generation. 💙
@ 13:00 - I can definitely agree with you there. She doesn’t even look like a lion until you add the ears. I kept telling myself she looks like a bear until then. Also, if you don’t mind me saying so, the kind of skill it takes to make two very similar characters distinct is intimidating. You and every other animator who’s worked on projects like the lion king are scary good.
I was trying to draw her in my childhood after watching the movie so many times and it never went close to original. Now I see how it really should be from the first hands. Thank you!
Blimey 25 years old! You don’t always realise how much time has passed until a random bit of information brings it home hard for you. Would you mind linking the pencil you used for these? The sketch quality looked so smooth and professional! Granted, the fact it was in the hands of a professional probably helped, haha.
The Lion King was the first movie my mum took me to see at the cinema back in 1994 then when I was 7 years old! You couldn't wish for a better first movie as a child I think. It's just awesome and so are you! ;) Cheers!
I was 3 when my Dad brought me home the Lion King VHS! It’s a vague childhood memory I love, receiving my first Disney movie. It’s fun to know that Nala was loosely based on a little girl who was about my age and I really appreciate your UA-cam channel as a now-adult artist, Aaron!
I really love the original animated Lion King movies, it’s one of my biggest inspirations as a young artist and animator, and has my favorite Disney songs; Be Prepared and My Lullaby
Godlike. "Remember, first I make a circle, then I draw as I see best because my knowledge is beyond mortal comprehension". XD Really, with that much experience I don't think you ever need any construction. It's all in your head now. To me you'll always be The superhero, Master Blaise.
I was 10 when I seen LK in theaters in 94. It was my absolute world for years and years afterward. It's my favorite Disney movie period, my favorite cartoon period. So needless to say, I am *super* excited for the remake coming out next month. :D Thank you for this tutorial! I will definitely practice it in future. :D I need to get back into drawing lions again. I would love to see more LK tutorials. :)
Aaron drawing Nala so consistant he accidentally drew her animated, meanwhile im here animating a bouncing ball :P You are teaching me more then you could ever realise! I'm really greatfull for the videos!
Hiya Aaron. Today is my 61st birthday; was feeling the age a bit; so I went to my UTube videos emails and saw that you'd posted another video. To my happy surprise it was a sketching video. I watched it & it and it put a smile on my face. Thank you so much for doing that, Aaron. I love all your videos & have learned a lot from them ! Hope you'll post more pure sketching videos, too. Your loyal fan; ~Sketchcat
@@AaronBlaiseArt Thank you, Aaron for your warm reply, I really appreciated it..! Please have a great day, too. I look forward to your next sketch-up video...maybe of the lion - "Scar".
You know, I've been drawing Lion King fanart, on and off, for... maybe a bit over ten years now? And I've legitimately never realised, until you mentioned it, just how essential the cheeks are to the look. I think that must be why I've always struggled with Nala in particular; my favourite character from the movie, yet I could never quite get her right... and now I finally understand why that was. This was really interesting and helpful; thanks so much for sharing! And if I may say it, I absolutely love Nala, and the design you gave her; she looks quite perfect :D
I'm so surprised I'm just coming across this now! Thank you SO much for your wonderful artwork. You made my childhood and your characters made me into who I am today. Especially Nala. Nala is my favourite character ever. It's lovely to finally see who is behind so many creative characters. Your daughter is so lucky to be that inspiration for you! Imagine being Nala!
LK is my fav animated movie period. It came into my life during a dark time (I lost my father). My aunt worked for then Airborne Express, and was head of film distribution and my uncle was friends with Tony B (Pumbaaguy) during this time, so my whole LK experience was magical to say the least. :)
As a kid I love watching the Lion King all the time along with other Disney classics I’ve started to use a lion king inspiration to draw my own animal characters.
I just loved this video. I watched The Lion King 10 times at the movie theather. I really got anxious about the VHS release, because at that time, there were a 6 months gap between the release in the US and the release in Brazil. Never felt that Way about any movie before! I used to pause the vídeo to learn how to Draw the characters from the TV, so I remember that right now watching this video.
You are so, so great and I feel lucky to be in this year, you teach people in a very easy way! so much love you put on your artwork, I totally appreciate it!
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing you wonderful work. I love drawing, especially animals; you're a source of inspiration to me, so thank you a lot again 😊
Fifty million... one hundred thousand... either way, it's plain from the way your pencil skims over the paper that you've had a lot of experience! Great video, and great insight to character design. Thanks!
This was really interesting; thank you sir! It would be cool to see you draw both Nala and Simba together to see how you draw their differences together.
This is so wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this! The Lion King is my favorite film of all time (it was even released only a few months before I was born and the VHS tape was my first ever Christmas gift, which I still have to this day!). I'd had the entire script memorized (even the bits in Zulu and Swahili) by the time I was 12 and have collected essentially anything I can find in relation to the film and it's sequels throughout my life. I'm pretty well-known amongst my peers as the "Lion King girl". :P I was always fascinated with the design and movement of Young Nala specifically, even as a child. I remember reading your name in the credits and beginning to follow my love of animation by looking up you and the other Animation Supervisors in the film. You, the other animators, and this film in general have inspired me so much throughout my life. Now that I'm finally working on an animated series of my own, I always find myself coming back to The Lion King and your wonderful talks and tutorials. The Lion King will always be the one true way to my heart and the key to my self-expression.
The Lion King is my favourite movie of all time!! 🙌🙌😁😁thanks for working in one of my favorite movie of all time Mr. Blaise!!! Also can't wait for the live-action one!!
Lion King is my all time favorite movie.... I had no idea you were one of the artist in that movie... 🤣 my school musical last year was the lion King it was fun
Wow, I just randomly clicked on this video for fun because cartoons are pretty easy to draw... I did not expect the video to be by the creator of the character's design at all!
I see a lot of people wanting him to draw other characters from the movie. I'd rather see him draw Yao, Rajah, or even Jasmine. He did work in Mark Henn's unit. Am I right on that one, Mr. Blaise?
this is what i really love. you don't just colour her an other colour, like in many many movies, but you work with softer lines and boom. everyone can tell that she's a girl. nowadays sadly in many movies, they just give the girl characters (like in HTTYD) lighter colours, and it doesn't matter how much i like the movie itself, i just hate the lightfury's look
Thank you for this really enlightening video Aaron! I’m going to have fun playing with some doodles of her tonight :) Hopefully I can do better than the one you’ve seen :)
Just so you know, there's may levels of graphite, and it's easy to find the one type your most comfortable using because they all re pretty cheap if you shop online. [ A little advice, Never go to a craft store for brushes or pencils unless u _really_ wat to see / purchase em' in person, they are EX-PEN-SIVE ]
The one man really qualified to do this tutorial.
Something I learned after trying to draw Disney characters a few times: You can't just copy one drawing and think you've learned how to draw a character. They look different from every angle and there's a tremendous range of facial expressions, which you can really see in this video.
There some disney characters I've tried drawing and nailed. Some made me wanna tear my hair out. There is a tutorial on how to draw ariel. The only thing that threw me off was the eyes and hair
That's what I hate about basic "how to draw videos". Aaron does it _right_ because he explains why things are and how to do.
Also if you draw them so often, you begin to do it from memory
Aaron you're a godsend for art students, I can't thank you enough for the invaluable info and tools you provide, you rock man 🤘
I am a 3d animator
RIZWANMATION
You know what they meant
The Lion King shaped my life way more than any other influence my whole upbringing. At 32 now I still have hakuna matata help me not taking everything too seriously in life, I kind of discovered my love for singing with both the lion king and pocahontas, and my first ever wish to learn to draw came from how intense my love and fascination for the lion king was and still is. I was just spellbound by how art could bridge reality and cartoon with real anatomy and I remember just awestruck staring at how everything was moving like shoulder blades, toes, ears, how gravity was going on, size differences, all of it. The magic is still there for me even! Before the lion king all animated main character animals walked on 2 legs pretty much, like Baloo (with Bagheera as the exception if he can count as a main character) so it will probably forever be my all time favorite movie because of how huge that change and feel was for me. I feel so lucky that I was old enough to remember when the world was gifted this masterpiece but young enough to get so much positive from it. 💜 Thank you for this tutorial! And thank you for all the hard work you and everyone else put into all those hours back then. It means the world to so many of my generation. 💙
Thank you for these words!
@ 13:00 - I can definitely agree with you there. She doesn’t even look like a lion until you add the ears. I kept telling myself she looks like a bear until then.
Also, if you don’t mind me saying so, the kind of skill it takes to make two very similar characters distinct is intimidating. You and every other animator who’s worked on projects like the lion king are scary good.
I was trying to draw her in my childhood after watching the movie so many times and it never went close to original. Now I see how it really should be from the first hands. Thank you!
I bought DVD maybe a year ago. Amazing and creative art and cartoons! Thanks for the great memories!
I don't know if it's possible, but this Nala looks even prettier 😍
AliraSK furry
Eredon no I think it’s just the water that’s turning the frogs gay
Blüê Ønÿx its turning the “freaking” frogs gay, do you understand!?
Yeah! What a beautiful character
This should've been the style of the remake
it`s great, thank you
Can you do Sarabi?
Rim Chan He did not animate Sarabi.
@@grinningcheshire7695 yes but maybe he can draw her or something (sry for bad english)
Blimey 25 years old! You don’t always realise how much time has passed until a random bit of information brings it home hard for you.
Would you mind linking the pencil you used for these? The sketch quality looked so smooth and professional! Granted, the fact it was in the hands of a professional probably helped, haha.
Thanks! I used a Black Prismacolor
"Blimey 25 years old!"
Ha, my reaction exactly!
Please do Simba next!
YUSSSS
Having Aaron draw a character he didn't work on? Interesting. Though I could be wrong.
He did not work on Simba.
@@grinningcheshire7695- he did help work on adult simba
Hoshu Films yes. He did not directly work on him.
I love Aaron’s art it’s so customizable or custom it’s so free and loose yet sharp it makes me think plus I love Nala she so cute and expressive
I have just been mesmerized
The Lion King was the first movie my mum took me to see at the cinema back in 1994 then when I was 7 years old! You couldn't wish for a better first movie as a child I think. It's just awesome and so are you! ;)
Cheers!
You make it look so easy! I'm gonna keep practicing!
Damn, every pen stroke is perfect 😱 this is so impressive!!!
PS: you have a really nice, soothing voice! You could be a voice actor yourself 👍
@MageBurger amazing! And actually no surprise 😄 he's really good!
I was 3 when my Dad brought me home the Lion King VHS! It’s a vague childhood memory I love, receiving my first Disney movie. It’s fun to know that Nala was loosely based on a little girl who was about my age and I really appreciate your UA-cam channel as a now-adult artist, Aaron!
You have such confidence with your pencil strokes! I feel like I learned a bit just from watching this video, so thank you for that. :D
Your channel deserves more recognition!
As an aspiring animator this is SO helpful! Nala looks so cute ^^
She's so beautiful! You're such a great teacher, your UA-cam channel is a blessing! :)
You should do Koda, plz
Koda?
Nala is an original, classic, Disney character.
Koda is an oc created by TC-96 on Deviantart
They probably mean Koda from brother bear.
@@NightTheKittenn ohhhh
@@NightTheKittenn Dude, I have not heard that name in a long time. Thank you.
Allyson Midgley yes I did. I directed the movie
I think I've fallen in love with this channel already 😍
I really love the original animated Lion King movies, it’s one of my biggest inspirations as a young artist and animator, and has my favorite Disney songs; Be Prepared and My Lullaby
Nala is so beautiful. Most favourite Disney character design.
Godlike.
"Remember, first I make a circle, then I draw as I see best because my knowledge is beyond mortal comprehension". XD Really, with that much experience I don't think you ever need any construction. It's all in your head now.
To me you'll always be The superhero, Master Blaise.
I love how passionate he is when drawing his characters. It really adds to the character and lesson.
Damn!!! Sir you make it look so easy to draw her or to draw anything
I was 10 when I seen LK in theaters in 94. It was my absolute world for years and years afterward. It's my favorite Disney movie period, my favorite cartoon period. So needless to say, I am *super* excited for the remake coming out next month. :D Thank you for this tutorial! I will definitely practice it in future. :D I need to get back into drawing lions again. I would love to see more LK tutorials. :)
Aaron drawing Nala so consistant he accidentally drew her animated, meanwhile im here animating a bouncing ball :P You are teaching me more then you could ever realise! I'm really greatfull for the videos!
who knew that i would one day idolize the designer of one of my all time favorite disney characters?
What kind of pencil do you use?? It's so smooth!
This was a black Prismacolor
@@AaronBlaiseArt oh! I have one 😅😅 thank you for answering!❤️ I know you get that question alot!
I had thought it was charcoal, just by the smoothness^^
I'll have to work on my technique :)
I want to be a character designer too! It's so cool I'm study for that 😄❤️ You drew her so cute I really like it 💙
This is really calming.
Hiya Aaron. Today is my 61st birthday; was feeling the age a bit; so I went to my UTube videos emails and saw that you'd posted another video. To my happy surprise it was a sketching video. I watched it & it and it put a smile on my face. Thank you so much for doing that, Aaron. I love all your videos & have learned a lot from them ! Hope you'll post more pure sketching videos, too.
Your loyal fan;
~Sketchcat
Thank you so much!! You made my day! Happy, Happy Birthday!!
@@AaronBlaiseArt Thank you, Aaron for your warm reply, I really appreciated it..! Please have a great day, too. I look forward to your next sketch-up video...maybe of the lion - "Scar".
You know, I've been drawing Lion King fanart, on and off, for... maybe a bit over ten years now? And I've legitimately never realised, until you mentioned it, just how essential the cheeks are to the look. I think that must be why I've always struggled with Nala in particular; my favourite character from the movie, yet I could never quite get her right... and now I finally understand why that was.
This was really interesting and helpful; thanks so much for sharing! And if I may say it, I absolutely love Nala, and the design you gave her; she looks quite perfect :D
Thanks so much :)
Thanks for the drawing lesson
We truly see how much you love your work, thank you so much to draw these characters!!
I'm so surprised I'm just coming across this now!
Thank you SO much for your wonderful artwork. You made my childhood and your characters made me into who I am today. Especially Nala.
Nala is my favourite character ever.
It's lovely to finally see who is behind so many creative characters.
Your daughter is so lucky to be that inspiration for you! Imagine being Nala!
LK is my fav animated movie period. It came into my life during a dark time (I lost my father). My aunt worked for then Airborne Express, and was head of film distribution and my uncle was friends with Tony B (Pumbaaguy) during this time, so my whole LK experience was magical to say the least. :)
thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all us, Mr. Blaise
I was 10 years old and this was the second movie I ever saw in cinema😍 nice to see one of her animators work on her here.
Fun and helpful tutorial! Thanks Aaron :)
As a kid I love watching the Lion King all the time along with other Disney classics I’ve started to use a lion king inspiration to draw my own animal characters.
Incredible as always!!!
I love the lion king and the lion guard!!! Thanks for the tutorial. Can you do Kovu or Kiara from lion king 2?
Mufasa would be nice to see too. I have been sketching simba, he looks easier than other characters.
I just loved this video. I watched The Lion King 10 times at the movie theather. I really got anxious about the VHS release, because at that time, there were a 6 months gap between the release in the US and the release in Brazil. Never felt that Way about any movie before! I used to pause the vídeo to learn how to Draw the characters from the TV, so I remember that right now watching this video.
Beautiful, and none of them even required a wire frame to construct! I hope I get to that skill level eventually.
thank you Aaron, love this!
It's so sweet, that you was inspired by your daughter!
You are so, so great and I feel lucky to be in this year, you teach people in a very easy way! so much love you put on your artwork, I totally appreciate it!
I would be so proud to know that I was the inspiration for Nala if I was your daughter, she must be feeling so good about that ^^
This was so wholesome, I'm R resisting the urge to find out a pencil and paper and having a go!! Xx
Thank you for the anatomy tips! its helped me alot while i'm trying to draw a lion cub :)
Video is on 0:01 and i already gave the video a like cause how can you not like this video?
Amazing 🩵 Named my daughter nahlaa after this movie!!
Wonderful!
Me: *draws*
Friend: What are you drawing?
Me: You’ll see..
Friend: Why are you drawing a circle?
Me: *yoU’lL.. sEE..*
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing you wonderful work. I love drawing, especially animals; you're a source of inspiration to me, so thank you a lot again 😊
I literaly got an ad about the lion king before I watched this video.
Btw Thank You this really helped!
Fifty million... one hundred thousand... either way, it's plain from the way your pencil skims over the paper that you've had a lot of experience! Great video, and great insight to character design. Thanks!
Goly, this is very pleasant!! You capture the style of the movie so nicely, it's very pretty 💙
This was really interesting; thank you sir! It would be cool to see you draw both Nala and Simba together to see how you draw their differences together.
This is so wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this! The Lion King is my favorite film of all time (it was even released only a few months before I was born and the VHS tape was my first ever Christmas gift, which I still have to this day!). I'd had the entire script memorized (even the bits in Zulu and Swahili) by the time I was 12 and have collected essentially anything I can find in relation to the film and it's sequels throughout my life. I'm pretty well-known amongst my peers as the "Lion King girl". :P I was always fascinated with the design and movement of Young Nala specifically, even as a child. I remember reading your name in the credits and beginning to follow my love of animation by looking up you and the other Animation Supervisors in the film. You, the other animators, and this film in general have inspired me so much throughout my life. Now that I'm finally working on an animated series of my own, I always find myself coming back to The Lion King and your wonderful talks and tutorials. The Lion King will always be the one true way to my heart and the key to my self-expression.
I knew that official Disney "how to draw the characters" book was a lie.
As my every comment says... You are a great Artist.. Thanx for sharing !!
I don't know why but u give me a lot of motivation to draw
Thank you, this was so pretty and inspiring! Time to draw some Lion King fanart :D
The Lion King is my favourite movie of all time!! 🙌🙌😁😁thanks for working in one of my favorite movie of all time Mr. Blaise!!! Also can't wait for the live-action one!!
You are the best teacher! 😇🥰
Nice drawings dude! I love lion king!
I love listening to your video's in the background while i draw. You inspire me to create!
Lion King is my all time favorite movie.... I had no idea you were one of the artist in that movie... 🤣 my school musical last year was the lion King it was fun
Aaah you inspire me to draw and animate. One day I'll go to my dream art school and work in the industry (probably the walt disney animation studios)
When I watch the lion king I will remember this.
Oh man, I miss the days of traditional animation. It's so much more expressive.
More of these please!! WOW
She looks so cute :"3 I want to draw that
Wow, I just randomly clicked on this video for fun because cartoons are pretty easy to draw... I did not expect the video to be by the creator of the character's design at all!
Amazing! And he's not even doing it with his right hand! :D
I was born about 3 months after The Lion King came out. Awesome tutorial though.
I see a lot of people wanting him to draw other characters from the movie. I'd rather see him draw Yao, Rajah, or even Jasmine. He did work in Mark Henn's unit. Am I right on that one, Mr. Blaise?
You are right! I've got more up my sleeve.
I tried it, and I really love it! Thanks for the tutorial!
this is what i really love. you don't just colour her an other colour, like in many many movies, but you work with softer lines and boom. everyone can tell that she's a girl. nowadays sadly in many movies, they just give the girl characters (like in HTTYD) lighter colours, and it doesn't matter how much i like the movie itself, i just hate the lightfury's look
Pięknie!Super!!!
Great tutorial ;) Thanks
So cute
I love this 😍😍
so cool aaron
You are incredible
So cute! And inspiring! ❤
"nice thicccc dark line around the eye were the eyelashes are"
XD
So nice
Thank you for this really enlightening video Aaron! I’m going to have fun playing with some doodles of her tonight :) Hopefully I can do better than the one you’ve seen :)
Right before this I had a lionking collectable sticker honeynut cherios fornthe live acrion version XD
What kind of pencil did you use for drawing? Please and Thanks!
Mariana Corella
Black Prismacolor
He replied in another comment^^
Just so you know, there's may levels of graphite, and it's easy to find the one type your most comfortable using because they all re pretty cheap if you shop online. [ A little advice, Never go to a craft store for brushes or pencils unless u _really_ wat to see / purchase em' in person, they are EX-PEN-SIVE ]
Wow hey. Nala he is so good at drawing.
Best. Video. Ever.
Yay! A fellow lefty! :D