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The Lion Guard 2.0

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I started making this drawing of the supporting cast of Disney Juinor's upcoming series The Lion Guard a few weeks ago. I set it off to the side for a while, then suddenly, these pictures of TLG picture books appeared on the Lea Halalela message boards:

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At last, we have a fair idea of what Bunga, Beshte, Ono and Fuli look like! This was all the incentive I needed to finish my drawing. However, style-wise the characters ended up halfway between the style they're drawn in on the book covers (which is pretty stylized, pretty different from the way Kion has appeared so far) and the style I was originally planning to draw them in.

All the characters seem to be juveniles, judging by their size in relation to Kion. Fuli seems to be a female king cheetah (Did any fan artists think of drawing her as a king cheetah? I sure didn't.*), though her lack of a tear marks and a mane makes me a bit concerned that the artist may have confused her with a leopard. I'm not too surprised that Bunga is a male, though his poofy "hair" makes him look more like a porcupine than a honey badger (not sure what's going on with that elbow fluff either). Beshte looks like a male hippo, and Ono seems to be a female cattle egret (well, at least I got the species right).

As for Kion, he's got a pawprint on his shoulder instead of the lion's head he had in the brief second of animation he appeared in, and apparently he has one on each side. He also seems to have dark fur completely surrounding his eyes on both covers. The way he appears alongside Fuli (and no one else) on the first cover also makes me think that Fuli is going to be Kion's female companion in this series.


*EDIT: Yep -- tsukishirolykos did! tsukishirolykos.deviantart.com…

EDIT 2 (8-13-15): Judging by a recent news article (accompanied by a darned good-looking animation clip), Ono is actually a male: www.ew.com/article/2015/08/11/…
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This is being sold as "clipart" on etsy:
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/271126…