Shannon Ehrola

Aww…Thank-you! It was the HTTYD fandom that got me into drawing actually! Artists like @axonmanage, @avannak, @funkytoes and @bgsdragons, inspired me to start drawing and I drew a lot often. My first coloured pencil drawings were kind of terrible and I have come a long way since then. 

I feel honoured that I have inspired you. Thank-you so much for your kind words! 

HK Project 

developed by Koola & Viv  |  Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux  

A cat adventure game set in a city inspired by Kowloon.  It’s still in really early development, you can follow the dev log here.  

A place to talk, a place to rest

🎶 soundtrack

some Tarzan doodles 

Da Vinci’s Last Supper

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson

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So it’s been five years to the day since I started my historical (or, well, historical-ish) Disney princesses series.  I have no idea how it’s been this long – I feel like I drew some of these yesterday – but it seemed as good an opportunity as any to revisit Belle now that I’m five years older and wiser.  And now that I’m way more into the 1780’s/90’s.

I drew that original Belle on a whim, fueled by my sister’s time working as a costumed interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, and assuming it would be a one-off piece.  In the long run, despite all their now egregious flaws, I owe this series for some pretty cool jobs, meeting a ton of cool people, developing an unexpectedly voracious appetite for historical fashion, and eating a fair amount of humble pie along the way.

I think this Belle probably marks the swan song of my historical Disney princess series.  Much as I’d love to continue doing it forever, I’ve got a lot of exciting personal projects that I’m ready to dedicate more of my precious free time to. I’ll probably continue designing this stuff in my off hours – who am I to resist drawing the likes of Slue Foot Sue and Katrina Von Tassel – but I’m going to focus less on polished illustrations, and more on the research and design.  When you get right down to it, that’s the aspect of this stuff that I love. :)

Thanks to everyone who stuck with me over the past five years, and here’s to way more historical fashion in the years to come  I can’t even put into words how lovely y’all’ve been. 

Just a little change. Small, to say the least.