always really admired animators and even taken classes in the field. It was more work than I was anticipating, but it really did help me as an illustrator. Anyways, this was based on the Expression sheet sketches by Jin Kim. I feel as illustrators, we tend to just default to “sexy” or “cute” facial expressions, but we don’t often push ourselves to displaying the full range of facial expressions, including the derpy ones. Planning to use this as a kind of emotion reference for myself, but will try to deviate to more of my own style. Working on this kind of makes me feel like I’m drawing a Goofy character, or a Lion King Character.

Flynn Rider from Tangled is one of the Disney characters to feel very “DreamWorks” or “Looney Tunes”, especially since there is a lot more comedy and slapstick involved in his character, when in the past the typical Disney Prince has a lot less personality and rather let the princess characters shine through.