Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Hawaiian Hula Girl

I just got back from a vacation trip to Hawaii with my family. No doubt it was the inspiration for this image. What a beautiful island paradise. The hula is an amazing dance: it really is hypnotic. The swaying of the grass skirts and fluid motions of the body look very much like the swaying palm trees and ocean waves. Really relaxing.

I had been to Kauai on a photo research trip many years ago, Disney sent a group of us doing visual development for Lilo & Stitch. But, this was the first time I was able to vacation in Hawaii.


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12 comments:

  1. Craig Harris1:55 AM

    HA...it was Hawaii month...just got back myself!! Beautiful drawing MO, hope you had a great time man!!

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  2. Ted Blackman1:54 PM

    Yeah, those luaus are great fun. I gotta get back there.

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  3. Nikolas Ilic11:34 PM

    awesome!

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  4. C.Deboda9:59 PM

    I wouldnt mind going to Hawaii to do 'research'. Nice stuff again!

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  5. Jana Hall8:52 AM

    wonderful, I like to spend a vacation in Hawaii!

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  6. Chromi - Estevao Chromiec6:20 AM

    Great work Marcelo. Love the warm colors in it! looking forward to see a bunch of your hawaii sketches too... :)

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  7. Billy George4:05 AM

    Great work! Im loving your blog as usual. Hope you guys had a great time in Hawaii!

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  8. Unknown12:02 PM

    Hi Marcelo, Great drawing! Hawaii is so nice and the work that you did on Lilo was very inspiring. I was just checking out the "art of l&s" this morning. Talking of which in the Atlantis and brother bear art of books you did some amazing work for FX concepting and I was wondering if you had more of it?

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  9. Peter Oedekoven8:14 AM

    Oh,I envy you ! Must be great for the kids!
    One of my all time favorite vacation dreams..
    a bit far for me though:)
    But looking at your cute hawaiian girl makes me even more envy.
    Love those subtle scetches down below too!

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  10. Andrea Fernandez3:45 PM

    I love this! Makes me want to go to Hawaii!

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  11. Anonymous9:32 PM

    Glad you got to get away for a while . Tropical breeze......

    Nice image buddy .

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  12. Trevor Spencer1:28 PM

    great piece! love the colors on the black.

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