For the same Concept Art class that I took when I drew the cover for "Stray", we also had to pick one of a few stories that our professor had picked out and draw concept art for it. I chose the story of Aladdin and began to draw after that.
Early concepts for Aladdin. I started drawing him with Harrison Ford in mind (left), but as I went on, I thought that Luke Skywalker was more appropriate for the role of Aladdin than Han Solo was, so I started drawing him like Mark Hamill (right). At this point, I didn't know where to take concept, so I just drew them in the clothing of Aladdin from the Disney movie.
Eventually, inspiration struck when I considered the genie. As Robin Williams said, genies possess "phenomenal cosmic powers" but are trapped in "itty-bitty living spaces". A modern-day equivalent of that could be some powerful computer program capable of hacking into anything, but he was stuck on a flash drive and couldn't be copied over very easily. Thus, our modern-day genie was born, played by the original godfather: Marlon Brando.
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