Adult!Merida sketchbook fluff…  she would had never admitted to it but secretly she was glad her girls liked pretty pretty princess things and how happy it made Elinor.

I wonder why am I suddenly so suckered into this older Merida concept… probably because she was such a believable character I can see her having a real life after the movie.  Also I want to see her as a fierce queen.

I was stuck in the car for about eight hours over the weekend while going to visit the in-laws and my mind was just wandering around.  Part of me ships Merida with MacGuffin but part of me is like.. ehh.. it’s more likely she married some complete outsider or no-one at all.

So in one of the alternate versions I came up with Abderrahim.  The third son of an Iberian nobleman he chose the life of a scholar and was on his way back from drawing complete map of the Baltic Sea when the vessel he was traveling on capsized in an autumn storm and the few survivors floated to shore not far from Castle Dunbroch.  With her father’s health starting to fail Merida took to looking after the injured and before long the adventurous duo were inseparable and Abderrahim’s despair over his lost research forgotten as Merida showed him the Highlands.  Three years later at her coronation Merida announced that they were to marry.  Initially the clansmen disagreed but as Merida’s influence grew and Dunbroch and neighboring clans prospered beyond everyone’s expectations with the new trade routes to south the doubters were silenced.  This picture is Queen Merida and King Abderrahim on the tenth birthday of their firstborn twins, crown prince Fergus and crown princess Jamila. 

Oh there was a load of other stuff as well but another (story)time.

Super busy with random stuff in life, gawd I haven’t drawn anything properly in weeks and I hate it.  Just a lot of quick sketches I don’t know should I post or not..

wackycactus:

stalcry:

katiewoodger:

DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?

My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)
and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting

I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.

Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

This is fucked up.  Though I don’t blame disney as a whole so much as whoeverthefuck is in charge of the merch .  This is not okay.  Signal boosting the hell out of this.

Although I think this is terrible, and no person should ever feel abused because someone stole their artwork, I do have to play the devil’s advocate.  The original author of this post did create an artwork based on Disney’s design of Alice.  Now, if the Alice was the author’s interpretation, Disney could get in a lot more trouble than they are in currently.  Disney owns the rights to the design that is being featured in this beautiful work of art.  Unfortunately, this means that they have the rights to use this artwork.  If I’m wrong, please correct me, but it’s highly unlikely they’ll take it down.

Shit like this makes me think I shouldn’t post things online anymore…

On topic, Alice in Wonderland is kind of a tricky subject.  The Disney animated film is under copyright, the original Lewis Carroll books and their illustrations for the most part are not.  Woodger’s piece is more evocative of the illustrations by John Tenniel than Disney’s Alice.  There’s always a possibility that the Disney consumer products artist making this purse came across Woodger’s image and took it for Tenniel’s in which case it’s not as much intentional art theft as poor researching, making assumptions and failure to use Google.  As far as I can tell Disney would had been perfectly within their rights to use the image on the far right as it’s *their* Alice, but fan art or not, Woodger would still own the rights to her physical work on the piece on the left… you’d need an experienced copyright lawyer to argue about the details alas. 

(via drakebynes)

Recently I’ve come across some official Merida images for the Disney Princess lineup .  Currently looks like she’ll get the same sparkle treatment as the others with added off-the-shoulder dress and some mascara.  Another sexed-up Disney princess then.  Mhmm. 

They’re sort of a guilty pleasure though, as an adult I can’t help but enjoy and draw pictures of beautiful people since you know, there’s that whole psychological thing that seeing sexy people makes you feel sexy too (and it really doesn’t matter if they are imaginary princesses or tabloid celebrities because in a way they’re all on that same fantasy Hollywood plane, I’m as likely ever to meet Angelina Jolie as Merida) and on other hand the mum in me is screaming that there is no bloody way I will ever buy any of that merchandise to my kids because they don’t need any more appearance-obsessed pressures added to their future angsty teenage years.  /headdesk

Watercolour and brush pen sketch.

sketchbook fluff… digital colours quickly while kids nap

Princesses do the rococo part II, this one’s with the “classic” princesses Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora.   First one with Disney’s “renaissance” ladies Belle, Ariel and Jasmine here. 

Inspired by late 1700s French fashion illustrations (but not aimed to be a direct reproduction), fine marker and watercolour.

Lolita fashion Tiana.   There’s something relaxing about immersing yourself in drawing tiny details.  Kind of like scribbling while on phone.

I haven’t been drawing as much as usual over the last couple of weeks.  I got a sewing machine for Christmas but I haven’t used one since home ec. class in school… much practice is needed. x_x