Disney Un-Disneyed: Lord Greystoke and Jane Porter

Pen
October 2014

For some reason this one gave me more trouble than I've had doing these for a long while.  I went through about a dozen thumbnails to get the pose (I wanted him to be standing upright, since he knows there's something about him that sets him apart from the apes, but I also wanted him to have some animalistic curves because of his upbringing...  The Wife suggested that I draw him sitting cross-legged and weaving palm fronds, which didn't seem to work for this series, but which was still a fun sketch), and this is my second Jane too.  I also tried not to make him too similar to my recent Hercules design (link below).  I guess a more crouched position might have made more of a contrast with his civilized alter-ego on the bottom left, but again, I didn't want to make him look too similar to my Mowgli (like also below).  Also, all those props!  Anyway, I more or less like how it turned out, though, again, Disney did seem to get him pretty much spot-on (though maybe he's described as a little bigger in the books, reviews here and here).

Snow White here.
Pinocchio here.
Denizens of Sleepy Hollow here.
Cinderella here.
Alice In Wonderland here.
Peter Pan here.
Sleeping Beauty here.
The Wart here.
Mowgli here.
Robin Hood here
Taran here.
Basil of Baker Street here.
Oliver here.
The Little Mermaid here.
Beauty and the Beast here.
Aladdin here.
Hamlet here.
Pocahontas here.
Quasimodo and Esmeralda here.
Hercules here.
Mulan here.