Real Life Disney Girls

Egg, Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger
Egg, Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Finnish artist Jirka Väätäinen renders popular Disney heroines in a realistic style His portraits give these characters something more than the cookie-cutter bodies and perfect faces they usually get in their idealized state. Belle has the furrowed brow of a thinker, Merida has the ruddy complexion of a girl who loves the outdoors, and Snow White oozes with naïveté.

‘REAL LIFE’ DISNEY GIRLS

Envisioning what the girls of Disney might look like in real life.
This is a personal project and has no affiliation with Disney in any way.