Sunday, January 12, 2014

A Toast to Belle

Belle picture created by Jaclyn Canada
I did a fun picture of Grumpy for a Sidekick Showcase post that featured the Disney version looking at the Lee Arenberg's Once Upon a Time character and thought I'd like to draw some more of these. Alisa requested Belle as the next character of focus, and I'm thrilled to draw her since I adore her so much. If you haven't stopped by Picture Me Reading yet, check it out. She has some pretty amazing graphics over there and some excellent features that I love like Project Disney, Awesome Adaptations, and Book to Movie.

Belle is a character that is hard not to love. She has a big heart, eccentric parent, and men telling her what to do every time she turns around. She is so unselfish, brave, intelligent, and has a deep-seated love of reading. This all carries over to her character on Once Upon a Time as well. She's also a warrior on the show though so it's a blast to watch her intelligence take down some baddies. Emilie de Ravin does such a fantastic job portraying her.

From Disney's Beauty and the Beast:

Gaston: How can you read this? There's no pictures!
Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.

Belle: Gaston, you are positively primeval.
Gaston: Why thank you, Belle. What would you say if you and I took a walk over to the tavern and took a look at my trophies?
Belle: Maybe some other time.

From Once Upon a Time:

Belle: To me, love is... love is layered. Love is a... a mystery to be uncovered.

Belle: I've always dreamt of heroics, but... I think it's safer I stick to my books. They're the only adventures I know that have happy endings.

Belle: No matter what you might've done in your past, David sees the good in you, and... and that tells me one thing.
Ruby: What?
Belle: That it's in there. So if we can all see it, why can't you?





13 comments:

  1. This is soooo cute and fun. And you know how I feel about Disney! I love the comparisons of the two characters. Great feature!

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  2. Omg!! This makes me so happy you have no idea she is perfect! You are such an awesome artist squuuuuueeee!

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  3. Wow! Your drawings are amazing, Jaclyn. I just watched Beauty and the Beast with John over the holidays. I told him it was a Christmas movie because of the snow fight (sneaky). I love those quotes! I so wish I had started Once Upon a Time when if first came on. I know it's a fantastic show. This post made me smile.

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  4. Wow, you did an amazing job with creating Belle. She has always been my fav princess. She is so snarky but loving Thougt Sleeping Beauty is my fav Disney movie.

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  5. Thank you!! It's so easy to love these characters. I had a lot of fun drawing her. Thank you so much for stopping by :D

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  6. YAY <3 I had so much fun drawing her! I think the cartoon versions are harder for me than the regular people. It took me a few days so I'm so glad that you like it :D

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  7. LOL I can definitely see how it could be considered Christmasy, but you know they have a Beauty and the Beast Christmas Special, right? You should catch up on Once Upon a Time on Netflix :D I wish I could ship you my Season 1 and Season 2 DVDs but that's outside my budget right now, hehehe. I just caught up on Pretty Little Liars which is one of Melody's favorite shows and watched the winter premier.

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  8. Thank you!! I had a lot of fun drawing her, but she was a pretty difficult little princess to get created. Aurora is pretty spectacular :D She's a character on Once too so I'll probably end up doing a picture like this for her as well. Are you looking forward to the Maleficent movie coming out?

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  9. Didn't know at all about the Christmas special and to think I resorted to trickery. My sister loves Pretty Little Liars! When Mel posted her reviews of a couple of those books I told Shan all about them because she only watches the show (faithfully). I'm going to treat myself to Netflix and all those shows after I get Maggie 1 and Anna 3 out.

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  10. Oh I enjoy her in Once Upon A Time. She's so good for Rumple. :) Great pick.

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  11. The drawing is absolutely stunning, Jaclyn. And I love, love, love Belle. Hmm, I wonder why?!? ;)

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  12. Right!! Rumbelle all the way :D I'm so glad you're a Oncer too.

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