Brazilian Digital Artist Uses Her Incredible Skills To Illustrate Beautiful Disney And Pop Culture Characters

If you've ever wondered what's "so great" about Disney fan art, I can understand your hesitation. Some people love things precisely as they are, and any revamp, reinvention or reinterpretation is a slap in the face of perfection.

However, there are many reasons why fanart is great for artists, fans, and the original characters, movies, shows, games, and books that inspired the fanart. I'm happy to explain.

For artists, creating fanart helps them practice and hone their skills as well as display their skills. Additionally for artists, creating fanart can also help get their names and work out in the open, drawing attention to their skill, and bringing paying clients more frequently to their inboxes.

For fans, seeing characters we know and love in creative, new ways can help us appreciate their origins or even re-live everything we love about them in the first place. Another way fanart positively impacts us as fans is that it energizes our imaginations!

For the original sources, repeated exposure to their stories, content, and characters, helps continue to keep them relevant even after many years. After all, some people are creating fan art of Disney characters that first rose to fame over half a century ago!

Mariana Souza is from São Paulo, Brazil but aside from the fact that she's an astoundingly incredible digital artist, there isn't much else we know about her. We hope you'll enjoy her Disney and pop culture fan art, and we included a couple of "speedpaint" videos from her YouTube for you to gush over as well.