Disney Princesses With Realistic Bodies
Is probably as old as the 95 year old studio itself.
Disney princesses with realistic bodies. This displays the lack of credible anatomical basis within the creation of these characters. The bodies represented in the films do not reflect real world bodies the earliest disney princesses including snow white cinderella and sleeping beauty are incredibly thin and dainty. Now tumblr user thenamelessdoll has imagined a world where disney s leading ladies look a bit more realistic from the neck up. Similarly another website above average found that in 6 out of the 11 disney princesses their eyes were larger than their waists.
Many have highlighted the warped body proportions of female animated characters by creating new versions of disney s leading ladies that approximate the size and shape of an actual human woman. The question does disney draw realistic bodies. Last year artist meridith viguet got some press for a tutorial she created on how to draw a disney friendly version of a princess. The more realistic drawings including lifelike art and historically accurate costumes often fail to recognize one thing that plagues many disney fanatics.
But that doesn t really matter because two she wears thick armor for half of the movie and that gives her much more realistic dimensions. Mulan s body usually doesn t come up in this kind of conversation. They clearly are able to reveal the unrealistic and harmful alterations that walt disney has created. One her body is closer to realistic proportions than other princesses even if it s still unfeasible.
A ton has been said and drawn for and against the physiques of their characters but recently one woman shared her own opinion about the subject matter and it quickly went viral once again grabbing. Silvervanadis is the artist behind this drawing of pocahontas although many other princesses have time periods and locations that are hard to nail down pocahontas being very loosely based on a real historical figure and very real period of time makes it easy. There are two reasons for this. What we know about pocahontas real name matoaka was the daughter of chief powhatan and lived in what is now virginia in the 17th century.
A body positive artist and self described advocate for the liberation of fat bodies is creating amazing artwork by reimagining disney princesses and other popular characters with actual realistic body types and she s inspiring thousands of girls in the process. Crabb and curvy kate gave the disney princesses a new look adding in flaws that are typically photoshopped out of photos with real models or left out in the cartoon character s case.