I wish I knew who drew the images for these. This is probably my favourite official Disney publicity art image for Belle.
Valentine’s Card, 1995.
Back in the 90s when I was learning to draw and already drawing lots of Disney fan art I accumulated a mountain of images to use as my “model sheets” and references (ah the days before broadband and Google). There were cards, stickers, colouring books etc. of official Disney publicity art. I found some of them when I was visting the family home over the summer and scanned in a bunch which are now queued in my inspiration blog. It’s mostly imagery of the Disney renaissance/90s movies up until Hercules (at which point I was old enough to go into big town by myself and started buying actual “art of” books instead of feeding my Disney hunger with the picture scraps). I find it a little scary when looking at them now after a 10-year break how completely they are embedded in my way of drawing Disney characters.
