#asha | music.

[ashairis]

❝What up doe?! The names Asha. I’m twenty-six, fun-loving, and a little spicy ❤️‍🔥. Atlanta born and bred but Los Angeles is my new home. I'm always the life of the party, let’s pop some bottles and dance the night away. 😉❞

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[arleniansdoodles]

Alrighty, here's my first bit of fanart for 2024! Asha and Starboy from Disney's Wish - more specifically, Wish's concept art :''') I haven't seen the movie, but I think I can confidently say that I would've been more interested in seeing it if they'd kept the romance/soulmate dynamic from the early concepts.

But anyways, here's my take on Star's design, and also a little cheek kiss for Asha! :D Also, I never made an official "Happy New Year" post, so I just wanted to say thank you all for your support in my art and writing endeavours! I hope this year is a kind one for you, and may all your wishes come true <333

[twixnmix]

Asha Puthli photographed by Andy Warhol, 1972.

[uva124]

I know that all the storyboards they showed at the end of the wish documentary were what got the most attention, but can we talk about the storyboard for the song "This wish"?

(I will definitely use this as a reference when I anime "This wish" KOW version, this scene reminds me too much of a part of @annymation rewrite when Asha is also looking for a star)

The petals and the wind *chef kiss*

I love this storyboard (If anyone knows the name of the artist who made it, please pass the name)

DISNEY SHOW THIS STORYBOARD COMPLETE PLEASE

[rascalentertainments]

All right, so there was a post a while back about someone realizing the Deleted Scene featuring Starboy and Asha actually had parallels to "At All Costs", so I decided to make an edit to see how it panned out, and here's the result:

I AM NOT OKAY. DAMN IT, DISNEY.😭

I'M CRYING AGAIN—

@signed-sapphire @oh-shtars @uva124 @chillwildwave @kstarsarts @annymation @lazytitans-world @emillyverse

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Man, Disney's Wish just breaks my heart. Like, they began with some fascinating concepts, stuff that subverted many of their established tropes but keeps true to the image of a Disney Princess story. Actual Starboy, evil King and Queen, animation jumping between classical Disney and modern Disney; this film had so much potential to be something that not only encapsulated the company's history but also opened up artistic avenues for the future. But nah, they squandered all that potential just cause they wanted something marketable.

[pinkiemachine]

I AM LOOKING FOR SINGERS TO PLAY STARBOY!!! Jump in if you’re interested! Have fun!!!

[bluejeanbeans]

Asha Puthli circa 1970s

[artist-issues]

Be careful of emotional music in movies and TV Shows.

By "be careful" I mean, when you're doing that thing I never stop talking about—you're trying to figure out why a moment in a story moved you—think about whether or not the story really set up and followed the moment through...or if they just threw a really emotional-sounding track/song over top of a rushed, cheap moment.

Like in the Vampire Diaries, or Suicide Squad, or an animated-streaming-movie. The characters will be saying something normal or maybe a bit cheesy to each other, the scene is about to end, and the storytellers don't have a good way to end it, so some song starts playing quietly under the dialogue. And suddenly you're feeling something, even though a second ago you were not that into it.

In the Vampire Diaries, it's usually The Fray. In Suicide Squad you'll get a punk-rock song as a new villains-enter-the-room scene starts...or several, every time a new scene starts.

In a streaming-budget musical, it might even be an original song with original lyrics that the characters are singing...

But pay attention! Music is one of the very easiest ways to engage a human's emotions. It's why influencers play inspirational piano music or covers of good movie soundtracks over what they're saying when they're trying to send out an encouraging message. It's why motivational speakers have a musical pad under everything they're saying. And yes, it's why movies use music, too.

And that is not a bad thing.

But what is bad is music that is used to try and make a moment impactful...but the story itself, and the characters in the scene, and the context of the scene, and sometimes even the lyrics of the song itself, can't support it.

The lyrics could be total crap—they could fail to fit the characters singing them, or the moment they're being sung during, at all—

—or it's an indie pop song that is actually about a friend with a drug addiction, but it's playing over, like, a scene where a young girl is saying "see you around" to the boy she has a crush on, so you feel all hyped emotionally.

It's cheap. It's silly. It's what Disney did in Wish (you knew this was coming, I've been on this topic for weeks)

Having Asha and Magnifico sing "At All Costs," which is a love song, to a room full of tangible bubbles makes zero sense. The song's lyrics only work if you're a pair of lovers declaring your devotion to each other—or, maybe, if you're a king and apprentice singing to actual people, not a room full of their daydreams. But!

The music is pretty. And it's literally engineered to be inspiring, and play with your heart strings. So you're sitting there going, "oh, wow, what a breathtaking magical song, I love it,"

but try and explain to me why you love it in connection to the story and there's nothing there.

Nothing that makes sense. You've just been emotionally manipulated by music. What you're really responding to is just the way the song sounds, and nothing else.

It's like the song (whether it's a musical number sung by the characters, or a piece of the score, or a pop song playing quietly in the background) is a beautiful set of curtains.

If you hang it up on a curtain rod, or even drape it artfully from the ceiling, it can do a lot for the space. It can make the place look bigger, or more comfortable, or show off the room's depth, or set off other pieces of furniture. It can even be a focal point.

But you know what the curtains need to do all that? A curtain rod. Something to be hung on!

If you just ball up the curtains and drop them in the center of the room, someone might walk in and go, "oh, are these curtains? They're pretty!" But you know what else they'll say? "Where are you going to put them? Why are they in the middle of the floor?" Because they don't belong there. The curtains are wasted on the floor.

Like a song that has no contextual meaning and is just laying in the scene like discarded curtains, arbitrarily playing with your emotions. Doesn't belong there; and what a waste!

So next time you really love a scene that has music in it at all, see what part the music plays.

If the lyrics make sense with the characters, if the story has reached a point where the song is all that's needed to accentuate the emotional depth that's already there, instead of creating it where it was lacking, then awesome. Now you can articulate what made you appreciate the song, so much better!

But if the lyrics made no sense with where the characters or the story was at; if it sounded pretty but didn't fit the scene; if it was the only emotional thing about the context of the scene—then it's not the story that you like. It's just the song, by itself. Add it to your Spotify playlist but don't say you loved that movie or that scene. You just loved that song.

Give credit where it's due instead of letting filmmakers trick you with cheap musical moments.

[your-ne1ghbor]

Star Boy meeting Asha be like:

[chillwildwave]

Y’all, I finally wrote a song for our StarBoy himself, Antares, like I told you before, this song is like a tribute to some Disney Princess songs mostly about wanting to explore something they never did before (something like Ariel or Rapunzel) since I think it’d be fitting for a 100 year anniversary, even though I took most inspiration from “Out There” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

For context, Antares is a wishing star who longs to explore the human world because he felt like he was isolated into where he actually belonged in the kingdom of Starfell, where all the wishing stars came from (I’ll explain the rest of his story once I get his personality fleshed out so you get the idea.)

It would be nice of you guys to share this with others by rebloging, commenting and liking this to show my contribution to rewriting this movie!

[bluepopofanarts]

I watched Wish yesterday

The film was okay until my brain started to scream "IT WILL BE SO PERFECT FOR KH4"

All the things about wishes/dreams messed up with me !

+ I have a headcanon where the KH saved the first war soldiers' heart and kept them with him. So the duet with Asha and the King gave me so many ideas for that !

And if Riku wants to save Sora of course he would try to save Sora's dream !!! (and I don't care, it's not a bubble shape, it's a heart 8D Don't want to hear anything else ! Can't change my mind xD)

[uva124]

Let's start with the scketchbook tour:

-This is recent so it has sketches of the discarded Wish Au KOW designs (Written by @annymation and soon illustrated by @emillyverse and me)

-By the way, thank Emy for choosing this sketchbook because I was undecided which one to choose lol

Let's get started :]✨✨✨✨

Yeah, I am a fan of "Epic The Musical", I got a little discouraged with drawing during those months but my fanaticism for musicals was stronger than me lmao,so I made some sketches of Odysseus, Penelope and Circe

unfinished drawings (damn creative block)

Volume practices 👍

Fun fact about me: I like to practice graffiti from time to time (I don't do it on the street because it's illegal and they could take me to the police station lmao)

Angst of my oc (Maybe in a while I will present them)

Fun fact: One of my inspirations for my color palette are the drawings of Vincent Van Gogh, here I tried to draw something similar to his oil style.

Here I started with the sketches of Wish, I haven't done the redesign of Asha yet so there are quite a few prototypes

Now yes, we start with Asha's sketches (I became addicted to drawing her)

✨Aster and Asha little ones✨

If you're curious about the Wish redesigns I'm doing, you can go to my profile or @annymation's profile where they are in the pinned post (I'll try to put one on my profile too)

That was long, right? I still have many more drawings but they are not from KOW and Tumblr doesn't allow me to show more photos so the 1st part is up to here (believe me, I have like 10 sketchbooks to show lmao, this is going to be long)

I hope you liked it, until next time :D ✨✨✨

[daniarts19]

Well, since we in this AU, I recently decided to get into Heathers once again after a while, and you know how i got my newest AU of Heathers with Asha as the main character Veronica in this one, i could see Asha being a badass teen and also the blue in her is actually nice in this one.

If i wanna do more of this AU feel free to ask.

Wish © Disney

Heathers © New World Pictures