After artblock, overwork, hand pain and internet crash, I've finnaly finished the next in my Disney Princesses illustration series! Beauty and the Beast's Belle! ^^
Belle is one of my favourite Disney princesses (I totally relate with her love for books! ^^). Her dress was, for some reason, terribly hard to come up with. And it turned out much more victorian-ish than rococo, but I like the fact it actually escaped the most common style choice for redesign (since the movie is somewhat set in the 18th century France).
For the color of the dress, I was in doubt between the classical golden yellow from the movie or a soft butter cream tone... In the end, gold looked much better, so I went further and made it an "antique gold", almost bronze - so the picture would get the "Old Fairytale Book" style I wanted for the series.
Painting the roses was lovely! ^^
For the next princess in the series, I'm in doubt between Ariel and Jasmine
(both currently in the sketch step)... Votes? ^^
