I’m working on a Sleeping Beauty-related commission and believe it or not I don’t remember to have ever drawn the fairies before. So I’ve spent my few free moments over the weekend sketching them doing all sorts of silly and unusual things (like dancing ballet!) to get a feel for their design.
It’s what I usually do to learn how to draw an animated character; I look up screencaps and modelsheets (where possible) but then instead of drawing it doing something it would had done in the movie I pick something else. It removes temptation to be lazy and copy poses from the movie (or even unconsciously to do it) so I actually have to think of the character for myself.
