QCA Art: David Kawena’s Disney Heroes
Do you remember the uproar when some Freudian found an erect penis drawn into King Triton’s castle on the cover of The Little Mermaid? We imagine the works of David Kawena would give them a full on aneurism.
He renders Disney’s princes into hot underwear portraits and it’s a full-on multicultural affair with men of color such as American folk hero John Henry, Captain Li Shang from Mulan, and Powhatan warrior Kocoum from Pokeahotass, er, we mean, Pocahontas. Is it wrong that we wanna see a full-length animated porn with these men giving each other the royal treatment.
Even if you think Disney’s non-Pixar films since 1995 have sucked butt (and not in a good way) Kawena’s art may make you take a second look. In an interview with Disneylicious Kawena explained, “When I started the first drawing in this collection, (the one of Hercules) I was just plying around with an old idea of mine, of seeing some Disney characters as ‘real’ but not 3D rendered.
“I always loved pushing the envelope with my art, especially to the point when people can no longer tell it it’s a drawing or a picture. That was a great way of playing with this concept even more, by taking clearly recognizable hand drawn characters and mix them up with realism in a way that has never been seen before!
“At first I thought of drawing Herc dressed up like in the film, but I felt like it still needed more change to it, a newer look and feel, so the black underwear came into the picture! Even before I finished it, I already knew that is going to be a collection! I thought of it like a photo session, where I’m the photographer and the Disney Heroes are my models. I was inspired by works of my favourite phographers like Steven Klein. This collection has, what I like to call, a life of its own. It’s been popping up on tons of websites all over, and people seems to like it a lot, boys and girls alike.”
Lots more princes, more of Kawena’s interview, and a peek into his upcoming works after the jump!
We found David’s art on DeviantArt and were surprised to find that he doesn’t have a personal site or a lot of info about himself on the web. It turns out that David Kawena is a pseudonym, taken from a character in Lilo & Stitch. About his real identity, the artist said, “I really love the fact that people know me through my works. I’m trying to keep it that way and keeping my personal life exactly how it should be – personal.”
“I want to be known for what I’m creating, for my works,” Kawena said, “not so much for taking my clothes off on some ‘deserted’ island in a reality show, or videotaping myself screaming and crying on youtube or something like that. The more popular I get, the more I see it as a must to have my personal life on a low profile.”
When asked if he’ll also be doing the Disney princesses, Kawena said, “I get alot of that question too! And the answer is always – yes! I will be doing a ‘Disney Heroeins Collection’ too. But don’t expact it to be like the guys collection. It will be just as realistic and modern too, and I already have some rough to almost finished drawaings from that collection. You will see them appearing online this year!”
“[For now] I can’t wait to get to the point where I’ll have Prince Naveen, from the upcoming “The Princess and the Frog”, added to my collection!
“By now I already have some new Disney Heroes portraits in my couldron and I’ll share them with the world soon enough… I won’t tell you who they are but I can give you all some hints… One of them is a doctor, others just graduated, another one is a living dead, one of them always stays the same and the other one has but one song… Can you guess???”
Can any of our bright readers guess which ones are next from Kawena’s clues?
Via Sticky.
