Moving to Tumblr

Hi everyone!

My blogspot days have come to an end.  I'm consolidating my online presence at tumblr.com.

My sketch blog can now be found here:
dansketch.tumblr.com

My Disney work samples can be found here:
bydanbeltran.tumblr.com

Please look for my current work at these sites. Thank you!
-Dan

Artwork for Sale at Disney Vault 28

I was recently asked to sign canvas prints of these Snow White and Aurora designs, from the Art of the Disney Princess book.

These canvas prints are on sale now at the Disney Vault 28 store, located in Downtown Disney. Check them out next time you're there!

The End

A quick drawing for the Halloween of it. This is The End, from Silver Comics' stable of characters.

Mens Clothing

Sketches from a mens clothing catalog.

Freelance

These were rough concepts/layouts for a freelance job.

Toshiro Mifune

Nightmare Before Christmas Product

I worked on the Fall 2011 Nightmare Before Christmas program for Disney Store. I concepted and drew the artwork, then handed it off to another team of designers to apply the art to product.

I really enjoyed drawing in this style. Above is a sample of how the design and packaging team at Disney Store applied the artwork to product. They're on sale now at Disney Store.

Music

As some of you know, I write, sing, and play guitar. Here's a site where I posted some of my music. You can listen to my playlist, as well as buy my album! Check it out!

San Francisco Exclusive Vinylmation 3"

This Vinylmation will be exclusive to the San Francisco Disney Store. I also designed the tin packaging.

9" Vinylmation - Gothy

From the Cutesters Like You series. This one was a lot of fun to design.

Cutesters Like You

As far as I know, this is the first 12-set collection that was designed by one artist. I think they came out great. I designed these on the original vinylmation mold. When the series went to production, they used the newer mold. Regardless, I think they're still very cute and I'm happy with the result.

Silhouette Princesses: Sleeping Beauty

This is from 2007, for Disney Store. This art was used on an apparel line. Unfortunately this series was never made into stationery or any paper printed use. I think this art would make great postcards or posters. However I'm still proud of how it came out.

Rooster

My parents' house was adopted by a rooster last year. He's one of those Cochin roosters with feathers all the way down to his feet. I did some sketches and then a Brushes sketch. The Brushes sketch is unfinished, and probably will remain so.

Graceful Bear

Elizabeth Taylor

I can't say I was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor. But I do have romantic notions about the Old Hollywood movie star status that she represented.

Vinylmation Villains

I'm very proud to have been a part of this project.

I will get to the dolls in a moment, but first I wanted to mention the packaging. I designed the 3" box and artist cards for this series. This involved creating the logo, choosing the color palette and fonts, finding a background pattern and creating some supplemental graphic elements. It was also challenging to fit the English and French legalese (choking hazard, return policy, etc.) into the design. Lastly, a number of parties were shown the design (as well as my handmade mock-up of the box), and it was approved. All in all it was another rare occasion of a design hitting the market exactly the way I wanted it to look, so I'm excited to see it released.
Anytime you get to represent a legendary character like Cruella (and being such a fan of everyone involved in the movie, the animators, Bill Peet, Ronald Searle, etc.), it's a thrill. I'm happy with how she came out, and it's one of the few times you can still show someone smoking!

Shan-Yu was also fun to design. I enjoyed adding the chinese characters of his name (单于) to the design.
I don't know how well known this fact is, but these dolls were all designed at the Disney Store home base in Pasadena. It is the first time a group of artists outside the Florida Parks team has created Vinylmation dolls, and I think our team did a fantastic job.

Sumi-E style Disney Princesses

Back in April of this year I did some Sumi-E brushstroke artwork for Disney Store. I see that the product using the art is in some stores now, most notably the New York Times Square store. The lady signing a canvas print of my artwork is the voice of Ariel, Jodi Benson. I have some other Sumi-E work that I did years ago, here. I'm glad that I got to break out the bamboo brush again.

Old Freelance Jobs Never Die

I came across this artwork recently. I did this character art job in 2002 or so, and someone is still using them! I can't say they're used brilliantly, but it still gave me a chuckle to see them.

Nightmare Before Christmas Mugs

In September of 2009 I was working on NBC product for Fall 2010, and I proposed this figural mug idea for Jack and Sally mugs. Once it got the go-ahead, I created the art, color and size specifications for the sculptor to follow. The sculptor overseas did a great job - and now, almost a year later, they're in the store! I'm biased, but I think they came out just great. This is truly the thrill of my job: having an idea, and then having that idea become real product. Fun!

Work

I don't usually post things I've done at work, but these were never used for anything. They were just done for fun during down time. The Tink was from a screen grab I was looking at, and the Pinocchios are studies based on the Pinocchio animation expression model sheets.