Nippy13 - Let's give Joy a hug

There are very few movies that  I’ve seen in my lifetime where I actually felt tears welling up in my  eyes and if I blinked they would run down my face.  One of those was one  that I had seen fairly recently:  Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out”.  For  this film there were many moments like that, too many to really list.
 

But  when I came home after seeing the movie I knew that I wanted to have a  fan art piece done of it.  Something very different from what I’ve had  done and worked on in the past.  The reason is because with what I saw  in this film and the way I felt afterwards, I wanted to break away from  what I did before.
 

In particular, I wanted a piece done of  the emotion “Joy”.  The reason is because she reminds me of a wonderful  friend of mine who no matter what’s happening to her, she still manages  to find a way to smile.  And I think that the world could use more  people like that.
 

With that in mind, I called up Nippy13 who  is the most adept at mimicking the Disney style than anyone else I know  of.  So I asked him if he wouldn’t mind doing an “Inside Out” piece.   But given that he lives in a different country, and the movie hadn’t  opened there, he wasn’t sure but went ahead with it.  After it was done,  he not only had the lineart but had a colored version of his own as  well:
 

“Joy - Would you Hug me?”
 

After  that, it was up to me to add the colors.  And so I did in my normal  fashion but by the end of it, I decided that it needed something more.   So, using the screencaps and other pictures for references, I saw what I  had noticed in the film and in the trailers:  the basically “little  spheres skin render” where each emotion has a rendering that looks like  little tiny spheres grouped together.  After reading the trivia section  for “Inside Out” at the Internet Movie Database I found out that the  reason for this is because of how the emotions, in the minds of the  animators, were made up of energy.  So, using my brush and scattering  tools I tried my best to render that in this particular coloring style.   Applying it only to the hair and skin.
 

After that, it was a  matter of a background.  And so, I used the poster for “Inside Out” as a  template/reference.  A simple blue background and circles of colors  representing the different emotions:  yellow for Joy, red for Anger,  blue for Sadness, green for Disgust and purple for Fear.
I am rather proud of how this turned out.  I hope all of you like it as well. 
 

© Joy - Inside Out - Disney and Pixar

Note:  All characters depicted here are 18 years of age or older

(sarcasm): Thank you, Patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork here.