"SCAR"
©️ Disney 2025
©️ Disney 2025
Oil on linen | 20 × 30 in. (51 × 76 cm)
Part of a "Villains" series (ongoing)
Scar slinks back into his lair, where he stews in his resentments as an outcast of the monarchy. To help convey this sentiment, I have Scar moving away from the composition's source of natural light at the upper right—psychologically, the "stronger" part of the image plane—down into the darkness at lower left, the "weaker" part of the image plane. He is subordinate, and he doesn't feel good about it.
The Lion King's story was partly inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth. With this in mind, I designed the composition of Scar's portrait to be flat, with red and blue light falling off the edges of the environment's curved shadows. Both of these things suggest a theatrical setting, where an audience sits in a fixed, front-facing position while adjacent colored spotlights illuminate the performers on stage.
~ 3.5 in. × 2.5 in. Color Study (also called a "Thumbnail" or "Poster Study") for Scar
Timelapse for Scar
