Aaron Blaise, a former Disney animator who has worked on classic characters from ‘The Rescuers Down Under’, ‘Aladdin,’ ‘The Lion King’, ‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Mulan’ and other characters, has created this absolutely beautiful portrait of the Beast from ‘Beauty and the Beast.’

Check out the time-lapse video of the process:

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