Artist Re-Imagines Disney Princesses And Villains As Babies After Being Inspired By A Newborn Photoshoot

by Ayoub

Baby photoshoots are becoming quite popular nowadays, people dress up their babies in different outfits, and then they do an entire photoshoot afterward. Talented photographer Karen Marie is known for her photo series with newborn babies cosplaying as Disney princesses. It's an incredibly cute concept that is here to stay.

Artist Alex Pick stumbled upon Marie's photoshoots and was inspired by them, which drove him to reimagine Disney characters as adorable babies, and he included everyone, even the villains. Alex Pick is pretty known in the Disney fan community, his 141k Instagram followers just can't enough of his wholesome content. Scroll down and check it out!

Photographer Karen Marie came up with the idea to dress babies up as Disney Princesses and photograph them

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Digital artist Alex Pick was inspired by the photo, so he decided to re-imagine Disney princesses and villains as babies

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Bored Panda asked Alex about the inspirations that influenced his style, and this was his reply:

“I grew up in the time when 2D Disney movies had their big time and left a major impact on me. I always dreamed to work on these movies or at least in that particular style. It’s like living the fairytale princess dream! And I’m absolutely influenced by daily life, Instagram, movies, and some series. If I think about it, I think I still developing and working on my art style every day and with every new drawing and illustration!”

Then he talked about the amount of time and effort he usually puts into his work:

“The time totally depends on the art piece. Sometimes I absolutely love to sketch, the drawing turns out really fast like in half an hour or something when the idea is fresh. And sometimes it’s better to leave it in the rough style because drawing over and over it to clean it sometimes kills the fun pure impact of an idea! Other drawings for sure take multiple hours to finish, while stepping forward and backward and trying out different versions!”

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Art can be quite complicated, inspiration can sometimes run dry and a lot of artists often struggle with that:

“Well talking about how my ideas come up…. I don’t know! It happens at the weirdest times! Sometimes I need to write or sketch down something with a few words or scribbles to remember the ideas! But as I said, I love Disney and there are so many possibilities to mash up things or see things from another angle! This brings a fun twist to the drawings.”

Alex has his own way of dealing with a lack of inspiration:

“Of course! I had a huge burnout in 2016! That was a very depressive time and period in my life! I was at the point where I thought I will never draw again. I felt like every piece of creativity and artistic joy was gone forever. I got professional help and learned a lot about myself and how I can fight burnout and anxiety. It’s really hard sometimes to find a good balance, trying not to force creativity and not to overthink everything too much. And sometimes it’s really hard for me to get negative vibes. This hurts a lot but I try not to let this get me down or put an effect on my art!”

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Bored Panda also asked Pick about people's reactions to his work:

“As I wrote already there are different opinions and I’m absolutely fine with that! I also do not like every art I see here on Instagram but I would never attack someone, or write rude comments to put down the artist/person’s work. But luckily there are many many many lovely peeps who like what I’m doing, who encourage me or give me objective criticism or suggestions to do things differently or better. At least for me, the most important thing is that I love what I’m doing.”“I love to sketch down the idea, playing with shapes and poses, but I do love to clean the lineart too. It’s so relaxing.”

When asked about what inspired him to start an account based on Disney, Pick said:

“It’s my love for Disney, the stories and adventures they tell, the characters they’ve created, so unique and special. It’s a whole magical kingdom to get inspired from.”Will you be drawing more Disney characters as babies in the future?“Yes, maybe I will draw more of the Disney babies or toddlers in the future. There are so many characters to choose from!”

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Digital art is not only time-consuming, but it also requires a lot of patience, focus, and of course, money:

“I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil in my hand! I started of course with traditional art! Sometimes I go back and sketch on paper! But in my tight schedule, it’s so much easier and more comfortable to draw digitally! On my iPad pro which you can use everywhere or my Wacom Cintiq!To add more to the whole thing, there’s one more thing I want to say. Believe in you and your dreams and let no one put you down, show respect to each artist’s work as they put so much effort work, and heart, and blood into their art.”