#disney's stitch: experiment 626

[captofthelaney]

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

[chelsiegeorgia]

Gee I wonder what movie I've been watching 💙❤️

[lordwiggyton]

Behold!! A Lilo and Stitch meme (from Mean Girls)! Took way too long drawing this... 😅😂

[experimentkc]

Official Disney Store merch plagiarizes almost twenty-year-old fan art [UPDATE: Now removed]

Update (December 17, 2024): Disney Store has now removed the canvas from sale, and the artist has deleted her Facebook and Instagram posts displaying her art-copying canvas.

Original post: I recently found an art canvas being sold on Disney Store that plagiarizes a nearly two-decade old piece of fan art by artist Ribera, who was the best-known Lilo & Stitch fan artist back in the franchise's heyday.

The canvas piece is titled The Art of Being Friends and was made by Denyse Klette. It shows the human-alien duo in an art museum looking at a painting of themselves on a beach. The artwork is being sold on Disney Store as of this writing.

However, the artwork in the painting within the painting is a modified copy of Friends Forever by Ribera, which was originally published on February 25, 2005.

The similarities are uncanny; the poses are the same and the relative art style is very similar with only some slight modifications. Various details in the background and foreground have been added, changed, or removed to try to hide the fact that the canvas piece isn't original.

It's disappointing to see an artist copying someone else's fan art, and a rather old one at that, and managing to fool Disney into selling this.

[artist-issues]

It sounds like Stitch but it just doesn’t have the Stitchiness of Stitch. His mouth is too small. His nose is too small and too low down.

His ears are too furry. There’s too much teddy-bear-bunny, not enough insect-shark.

His ears should look almost-translucent, with fine fuzz, like bat ears! His nose should look stamped onto his face with gigantic nostrils, like a bulldog’s. His eyes should look bigger and blanker.

His mouth should make you think shark, like his whole head is resting on the hinge of his jaw. And the fur around his eyes should be much thinner and more peach fuzz like so that you can see the wrinkles in his flesh when he squints or makes snarly faces.

Why

Why is that so hard

he’s not cutesy and only-pretending-to-be-fierce. he’s not a kitten. He’s not made to appeal to the Minions and Toothless-but-only-Toothless-in-HTTYD-3 crowd.

There are NO BLACK LIPS. He’s not a dog. There are NO CAT-MUZZLE-UPPER-LIP-MUSCLES. He’s not a kitty. OR a bunny. Why are those two-front-teeth so so much smaller than the rest of his teeth? Why are all of the teeth so small??

Don’t you guys understand why he’s supposed to look more than just cute-but-acting-naughty?

He has to be able to look convincingly disgusting, and genuinely fearsome.

Look how whip-thin his eyes and eyebrows are. Look at how, like a snake mid-eat, you can see some of Pleakley’s head swelling Stitch’s throat. It is important that he look like a monster when he needs to because he is a monster.

If Stitch doesn’t look like the kind of small monster that can take big disgusting bites out of you, with jerky, spider-like movements and tiger-scrunched eyes then the whole emotional weight of the movie looks flimsy. We’ll forgive a cat for scratching us and giving us cat-scratch fever because it’s cute. If Stitch looks too cute, then the human brain goes, yeah, he pushed that little girl down and laughed at her pain, but look at his wittle face, he’s a babydoll, who could stay mad at him

We can easily see why Lilo puts up with him.

When the point is, we shouldn’t be able to see why Lilo puts up with him—not in and of himself. Stitch does nothing to deserve Lilo’s love, including being cute— actually, he’s gross and unsettling. He’s not even cute enough to want around as a snuggle-buddy. He’s certainly not cute enough to look unthreatening. Nobody in the movie runs up and asks to pet him. Nobody even looks like they want to. He’s not appealing in that way. The dogcatcher screams at him on sight. The tourists just stare when he walks up dressed as Elvis. Her friends immediately think he’s the ugliest thing in the world and don’t want him anywhere near them. David is sure it’s not a dog. Even the aliens in an intergalactic council find him not-appealing, on sight. They take him, as a threat, seriously, even before Jumba lists his powers.

All of that is not because Stitch really looks outrageously ugly.

⬆️ THAT is ugly. Can we all agree? That’s ugly. Whereas this:

Less ugly. Obviously I know that. But there are a couple things about Stitch that are not traditionally appealing, when the filmmakers could have made him traditionally appealing. If they wanted his nose to look muzzle-y, they could’ve. If they wanted his spine to bend at the hips like a human toddler’s they could’ve. If they wanted his mouth smaller and more cartoon-y, with kitty-cat lips, they could have done that. They chose to do the slightly more ugly thing instead. He’s still appealing. But he can look and be convincingly threatening, unattractive, and disgusting when he needs to be for the story.

The cuteness was a by-product. It was an artfully-done side. It was not the main course of what he’s supposed to look like. Again I say to you—he is not your Minions-loving Facebook Mom’s bumper sticker. He is supposed to walk the line between most-disgusting-pet-you-could-have and Gremlin-meets-E.T.

These teasers are totally catering to the people who like Stitch T-Shirts from WalMart but probably couldn’t explain the first thing about him as a character. And whatever, that’s fine. But the design affects the story, and the original story was so good.

This does not bode well.

[chiaknight]

Watching another one of my favorite childhood series again

[douglasbradburyverne]

Happy June 26th (6/26)

[itspkuwu]

[kingofthe7sins]

Ignihyde Boys! 💀🔥

Wayne Darkmatter🤖

"Lame-brain! If you want something turned Evil, turn it Evil yourself. That's what Nana always used to say to me, and she was plenty Evil."

Kalani Pelekai👽🌺

"This is my family. I found it all on my own. It's little and broken but still good. Yeah, still good."

Kronos Omnison🦹

"After you trashed the last one, I had to make some major modifications. Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it. I mean... after all... I am your biggest fan."

(Based on Zurg from Toy Story/ Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. And Syndrome from The Incredibles)

(Technological Geniuses with a Penchant for Chaos) (Commission done by the amazing Laizy_boy04 of my Boys!!

[stitchthebest36]

I found this Stitch book at the library featuring Angel. Only Stitch's name is on the brand instead of Lilo. This book is an easy reader style book for kids learning to read but I rented it to see the images of the characters. The book features an unknown blonde girl who is said to be Lilo's friend and Nani, David, and Myrtle are in one of the backgrounds. On the inner cover it has an ad for 2 more Stitch books that are easy readers that seem to be brand new about school and Halloween respectively. I collected other easy readers in the past for the sake of it being Lilo & Stitch content and a piece of history, like "Home Stinky Home" and "Go Stitch Go" but never found any other easy read books...until now. https://www.deviantart.com/stitchthebest36/art/Stitch-Valentine-book-1151041241

[loudlyhappycupcake]

Stitch college @shironezuninja @jedimemories @moonlighteclipse17 @ajaxus166 @saltysoulballoon @twiliartsdreams2017 @untitled14360 @iputhepinprincess @princess-paige-place-of-fun @princesshillaryellaworld25 @princessfandom812 @bloodmoon24 @bossbabyfan2 @cartoonfan21 @wolfie245 @daydream358 @ladybugsonfire @roxxywolf-multiversa @in--dna @broadwaygirl918 @clairaquos @msking0 @evaiskindaweird @aromantyczno-liryczna @billyjoelmutt @bitter-yet-civilized @punk-63 @leo-x-u-raptor-fan

[faelingmagic]

Can you do Lilo and Stitch in footie pajamas?

Not only did I want to do this because I love drawing stitch but also because I knew Experiment 626 day was coming up! So happy Experiment 626 day! 💕

Also since it’s still pride month, I made it pride related as well! 💕✨🏳️‍🌈

Just like a star shines brightly in the sky, you should let your inner light and strengths shine for everyone to see. Don't hide who you are; be confident and let your brilliance be seen. Let yourself shine bright like the star you are!🌟

Thanks for the request! @toonguy2000 💕

[janikainen]

Stitch! Because this movie was my childhood :-) linktree

[lordwiggyton]

🎵 They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, The Addams Ohana (means) Family! 🎵

Happy Halloween Everyone! 🎃🎃��

[experimentkc]

Happy Stitch Day! 🌺🔵👽

Alas, the annual celebration of the little mischief-making cute and fluffy blue alien mutant koala is upon us. He still gets a lot of love from his 'ohana of fans to this day and he has the fan art to prove it!

626 Stitch by Harara (X/Twitter) – Aw, Stitch! Those comic panel backgrounds were nice!

Happy 626 Day by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – Our little brave knight!

Happy 626 Day! by shioto_soda20 (X/Twitter) – He's ready to perform just for you!

Cowboy Stitch by Dykoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for vandalism and theft (of left shoes)!

stitch fanart by Isac Miranda (DeviantArt) – 🥥🥛

Happy 626 Day by mayoooon_626 (X/Twitter) – All hail King Stitch!

626 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – 🤙

626 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – He must've eaten his Wheaties this morning! 🏆🏃‍♂️

Stitch by Kipaki (Fur Affinity) – A nice way to spend time at the beach when you cannot swim! (Drawing was originally made as a commission for someone on X/Twitter.)

Blue alien by Omnimonia (Fur Affinity) – Even though it's his day, he's willing to put his gluttony aside to give his best friend some delicious shave ice!

空から626 (626 from the Sky) by Uranus (X/Twitter) – This one's actually based on this photo of a corgi.

完全無欠のエイリアン (Perfect Alien) by Nexusthelife (Pixiv, X/Twitter) – Carrying the torch for 'ohana!

6/26 Stitch Day by ZUNDAMOTI2002 (X/Twitter) – Of course, we can't have Stitch Day without some coconut cake!

June 26th Stitch Day by umi_2603 (X/Twitter) – 🤘

'Ohana by miru (X/Twitter) – A group hug for Stitch from his loving family! 🫂

Stitch day 2024 by @angoraram (DeviantArt) – Finally, a party with all the main experiments! 🥳

626 Day 2024 by @ryuko-rose (DeviantArt) – Wait, make that with all the known 6-series experiments! (And Tickle-Tummy even though she's officially not of the 6-series.)

[noirstarre]

Some early poses as I tried to teach myself how to draw Stitch from Lilo and Stitch so I can try to become a Disney Lorcana Artist