JeanGreyForever wrote:Those are cute, thanks for sharing! I love how the majority of them actually look movie-accurate with a few exceptions.
Thank you!

I've been having a lot of fun with these.
Disney Duster wrote:Elladorine, your characters are very cute, but I guess by "makeovers" you were joking, because you just made them chibi, not really changing their hair and outfits? But I must say, Belle's dress is not quite accurate, her bodice and gloves is supposed to be darker than the rest of her dress, and the same color. And Cinderella's dress you made blue, after all you know from us on this forum, especially me?!!

Belle's dress is gorgeous though. I think it is is objectively the best Disney Princess dress, despite Cinderella's being best to me.
Thanks!

And yeah, I was joking.

I've been drawing chibi characters like this for a while, calling them "Lil' CutiEs." I mostly try to stay true to the characters while making them simple and streamlined. I mainly started these as a way to show some love to the lesser-known characters from all sorts of different sources, as well as characters I particularly like.
It's been a while since I've drawn the aforementioned Belle and Cinderella, so I'm not sure what I was thinking when it came to the colors.

I do tend to pump up the saturation when I start coloring, so that probably explains Cinderella. And I imagine I started coloring Belle in the middle of the night or something.

Regardless, it's hard to please everyone, but I do my best to make them universally appealing. I'd like to get around to drawing them with their other outfits too, so I can group them together in different ways. I've actually made a matching card game with this set of drawings, and the pair of Auroras each have a different colored dress (pink and blue, of course).
Anyway, to get back on track ... I'd love to see merchandise with different outfits! All of Belle's and Tiana's dresses, for example. But from a marketing standpoint, sticking with the same dresses unfortunately makes sense, especially given the age of the target audience; the colors themselves symbolize the characters, keeping them easy to recognize at even the slightest glance.
I do find it interesting how the marketing has shifted away from the films in favor of focusing on the characters. Because while I do love the characters, it's jarring to see them plucked out of the context of their film, often with a change of personality. I'm glad they're choosing to focus on making them more empowering, but I've always felt these ladies were already empowering long before this whole princess thing took off.