The Lion Guard

EDIT 2: Well seems like we're back to the pawprint mark (thank you ) I'm not sure which mark will be final but since I prefer the pawprint I'll keep that one in the picture. 
And yes, I'll make fanart with the oficial design of the guard members in future, but I'll wait for more pictures since I'm still missing details (no eye color yet for beshte, bunga and ono)

EDIT: I change Kion's shoulder mark to the new design (thank you for the reference) and along with it also changed Beshte's and Bunga's marks too

For the ones that don't know last year Disney announced a Lion King spin-off called The Lion Guard, a TV movie that will premiere in Fall 2015, with a subsequent series to debut in early 2016 focused towards pre-school target audience.

Only two images have been released so far with Kion but none with the rest of the gang.
Being a huge TLK fan I got and still am really excited about this and I though it would be a great exercise to go back to Pride Lands and create some concepts of the unveiled characters. And here they are!

Since these guys will be featured in a pre-school show I had to make them cute and appealing, with friendly shapes, big eyes, toned down contrasts and child like features, like Kion has in the promo pictures. 

If you're curious to see more about the line of though I had to create this guys and some more sketches check my tumblr post: artbysaramena.tumblr.com/post/…

Hope you enjoy it! 
Now I'm curious to see how different they will look from the real deal.