Ferngully Batty Drawings Black and White

This week is the National Random Acts of Kindness Day , in which I just find out this morning. I looked it up on Google, while getting started on this new topic, and it goes through February 14th to February 20th. I think it's pretty cool to have a national holiday like that for one week, even right after we celebrate Valentine's Day, by helping to spread more act of kindness and generosity to people who needed the most. Positivity is stronger than negativity, even during the hard times in the pandemic, but as long as we have friends and family to love and care for, that's what makes you a very happy person 😊

It's probably a very cool idea for me having to share this very new topic, during the National Random Acts of Kindness week, because this new watercolor drawing is a fan art of Crysta, one of the main characters from the animated film, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992). This is one of my favorite animated movies from 20th Century Fox, even though I never grew up with it, until I was a teenager and started watching the whole thing at 16 or 17 years old, and I liked it! It was wonderful, I love the animation and artwork, the characters are brilliant, backgrounds are beautiful and very green, I love the music and songs, and I love the message on how to save rainforests and environment from danger and pollution, in which it's about keeping our beloved planet beautiful. However, I do kind of remember witnessing the movie as a young kid in school, from going to a classroom, where half of the film was played on TV, but I didn't get to watch the whole thing, because I had to go back to the special ed classroom with the rest of my classmates. Plus, the character of Crysta was very familiar to me, only because she's a fairy, so that would make sense. I think a lot of you who grew up in the 90s' would definitely remember this film by watching it in school on Earth Day in April, because, as I've said, the message was about environment and how to make our planet Earth stay safe and beautiful.

Released in 1992, directed by Bill Kroyer of Kroyer Films, where the animation was made, Ferngully is a story about a fairy named Crysta (voiced by Samantha Mathis), who lives in the rainforest called Ferngully, along with all of the fairies from there, such as her friend, Pips (voiced by Christian Slater), Magi Lune (voiced by Grace Zabriskie), the wise fairy, and Batty Koda (voiced by Robin Williams; this was his first animated role before becoming the voice of the Genie in Disney's Aladdin), until she meets a human named Zak (voiced by Jonathan Ward), after accidentally shrinking him with her magic into the size of a fairy. Suddenly, a smoke and oil-like pollution named Hexxus (voiced by Tim Curry), the main villain in the film, is released from a tree accidentally by humans, where Magi Lune trapped him there, and comes back to take over Ferngully. As Zak learns to understand about not to expressing pain and destruction towards the rainforest, only because it's Crysta's home, he, Crysta, and Batty go out to stop Hexxus for causing harm.

Crysta Pencil Sketch 🍃

Crysta is one of my favorite characters from the film. She's like my second favorite fairy, after Tinker Bell from Disney's Peter Pan (1953). This is not the first time I've drawn Crysta, because I have drawn her before, but it's been a while. However, the Crysta watercolor fan art is the very first one I ever done in that medium, as I will go over the process on this topic here. She is very fun to draw. I drew this pencil drawing of Crysta in late-January, in which it became my main source to work on the watercolor drawing version of this. If you follow me on social media, such as Facebook and Instagram, I posted it there, I think, from a week ago. Then, I begin working on the watercolor version of the Crysta drawing two days ago, on President's Day.

This was drawn on the large drawing pad, where I did all of my watercolor drawings I've shared on this blog in the past, beginning with the light sketching from the pencil, and once that's done, I used my thin sharpie pen in black, cleaning up the drawing, and also used the red thin sharpie pen for Crysta's lips. Next step was getting Crysta in color, with my set of watercolor pencils, in the exact colors just like how she was designed in the film. If you noticed, she has a little blue light glowing on her, in which you will see it in the movie; it follows her every time she flies in the rainforest. It's like Tinker Bell, the way she was glowing in golden-yellow light in Peter Pan, and most of fairies are glowed in beautiful light, whenever they fly or not. For Crysta in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, she's the only fairy who glows in blue light, whereas Pips and the rest of the fairies fly in green light. And so, I added the blue light on Crysta, so you can tell that she's flying, according to the title for the artwork.

The next day, a day after painting Crysta in full color, I went back and continued on to finish the project by coloring and painting the background in rainforest-green, mixed in three color combinations: light green, green, and blue. The last step was adding bits of white sparkles around Crysta with white acrylic paint, and let the drawing sit and dry for a while.

It was very fun to do a very first Crysta fan art drawing in watercolor, and I'm glad I was able to draw her again, for it's been a while. I hope you will enjoy this drawing, as much as the original sketch drawn in pencil, and I definitely recommended you to check out and watch Ferngully, it's a really good movie with a powerful message. Have you seen Ferngully: The Last Rainforest? Who are your favorite characters? What are your favorite scenes from the movie? What is your favorite song? Please share your thoughts in the comments down below.

Enjoy! 💚

Crysta Art Gallery

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• Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLolvr7dOV4

Ferngully Batty Drawings Black and White

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