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

This pop culture fan art is giving us all kinds of nostalgia and excitment.

Elana

• Published in Disney
• March 6, 2022

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.

1. Moana

Check out Mariana's Speedpaint video of Moana:

Urban Dictionary defines "Speedpainting" as such:

"Despite what most of you probably think, a speedpaint is not recording yourself drawing anything and then speeding it up. A speedpaint is art made in a shorter amount of time, not 100% effort is put into correct proportions, realistic-ness, or getting everything perfect. It's usually done just for practice or when an artist wants to do something in UNDER three hours, haha."

Wikipedia's entry on Speedpainting is a little less crass, however:

"Speed painting is an artistic technique where the artist has a limited time to finish the work. The time can vary, usually a duration is set from several minutes to a few hours. Unlike sketches, speed paintings may be considered "finished" after the time limit is up."

2. Alice in Wonderland

3. Mulan

4. Mononoke Hime

5. Snow White

6. Maleficent

7. Mikasa (Attack on Titan)

8. Ariel, The Little Mermaid

9. Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

10. Tracer (Overwatch)

11. Frida Kahlo

12. Wonder Woman

13. Hermione (Harry Potter)

14. Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)

15. Pocahontas

16. Black Lady (Sailor Moon)

17. Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)

18. Inuyasha

19. Sabrina Spellman & Salem

20. Alice in Wonderland

21. Daenerys (Game of Thrones)

22. Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)

23. Devil May Cry

24. Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Wticher)

25. Mulan

Here's the mind-blowing Speedpaint video of her second Mulan piece as well:

If you loved what you saw here today from Mariana's artwork, you might be delighted to learn that it was merely a drop in a robust lake of incredible digital illustrations. It is clear while browsing through her vast galleries online that she has spent many years working hard to hone her skills and that her efforts have continuously paid off.

If you'd love to see more of her artwork and keep up with her, we highly recommend checking out her various social media accounts: ArtStation | DeviantArt | YouTube | Twitter

Elana