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Published: 2010-02-24 05:00:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 231951; Favourites: 3526; Downloads: 2210
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EDIT: "Sugar cookie" is definitely not an official Disney term...it's my name for all the European Disney princesses. Like sugar cookies: sparkly, white, sometimes too sweet for their own goodEDIT #2: I'm not ripping on Disney! I LOVE and TOTALLY COMPLETELY ADMIRE Disney and their artists! I think I was trying to be funny, except everything I noticed about Disney's stylization came across as caustic.
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Very helpful for those who want to add some Disney flair to their gallery. Great work!
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I love this tutorial and I refer to all the time! It's really helpful and detailed, while managing to be entertaining and funny unlike most long tutorials!
I just used it to do the following piece:
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Anyway, thanks so much!
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this was so funny!! well done!! you made it onto dailymail.co.uk
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that was a learning experience. AND it was freaking hilarious... XD i never knew Disney was THAT racist.....
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"Elongated stop sign" HAAHHAAHHA
This is amazing and super helpful! Thank you :3
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Super funny and helpful! Thanks for sharing!
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This is really cute! I like it it, and it's very informative, and I like how you pay attention to a variety of details.
The only thing I would say is not to refer to the non-white princesses as being 'exotic' and maybe censor the g-slur if not eliminate it.Β
Otherwise, this tutorial is a great look into the all-powerful Disney style and variety within it, good job!
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very educational, indeed entertaining, but at the end of the day cartoons are a form of art. I personally love how they draw their characters.Β
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thank you! As soon as my drawing improves by miraculous proportions, I'll try this...
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This is really great, helped me a lot! Thanks you
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Very educational i must say, and very humorous as well!
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Found this on dailymail, you did a fantastic job with this!
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Oh my goodness I can't tell you how much this helped me. This made my day *^*Β
You're the greatest! 
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suuuuper helpfull! this is totally what i was looking for, for the project im working on!
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Thanks to this, the European Disney princesses shall forever be the "Sugar Cookie Princesses" (or just "Sugar Cookies") in my mind
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hahaha aww you're the cutest!
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This is really helpful, I read an article that many Disney fans want more princesses of different nationalities or ethnicities, we already have several Caucasian princesses.
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Exactly! Representation is critically important and the lack thereof is just boring anyway
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That would be an interesting conversation, what kind of Disney Princess would people rather see next? What would you pick out of this list?
A blind or deaf princess,
An amputee,
A wheelchair bound princess,
A nationality/ethnicity that has not been done yet (please specify),
A plus size princess,
A same sex princess(es),
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what about a bald one so girls with cancer can feel pretty too?
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That would be something different! Or a blind princess doing something brave and heroic would be ambitious!
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This is great, very helpful. Is there a chance that you could do one for the boy Disney characters?
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I made one actually! I'll upload it one of these days (or maybe remake it? it's old)
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oh my god please please pleasepleaseplease post the male tutorial. I've been looking for one everywhere and it's like all anyone cares about is the princesses! i would love you forever, for real.
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could you do a tutorial on Disney Princes?(:
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Its so Helpful, for making anatomy of an Disney character...
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I get that you weren't hating on Disney's style, but what I take issue with is that you use one particular example of what a real woman "should" look like, and then compare to it to the Disney one to show how exaggerated the Disney girl's features are. But there are plenty of women with more demure shoulders and slightly larger heads. You seem to be implying that Disney's idea of female beauty doesn't exist in the world, but it is quite possible to have a figure somewhat close to the Disney one.
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Very interesting Tutorial.
I am a Big Disney Fan too.
Yes indeed Disney is greatly promoting their princesses to have those Big Beautiful eyes, and very slim waists. That's cool about it. I like it.
But Why they don't apply this on their Disneyland Mascot characters also?
Bell at all Disney parks is very Fat
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Lol XD
Snow white isnt skinny either
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Not the one I went to she was gorgeous there but she did have big boobs and this is coming from a chick
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Wow.... this was actually SUPER helpful. Thanks so much for sharing it!!!
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You know whats funny? I never read this till today and I followed the rules! BUT I made a heavy set princess! [link] this is me as a Princess. Its from Mirror of the Soul an actual project and story I am working on. Anyways um....I kept the shoulders demure, I kept the waste smaller than the rest, though she's chubby. LOL Interesting how this all flowed out so well.
I have bigger boobs than I gave myself in this image, the corset thing really helped bring those down! LOL. This is my fav version of the Michelle style so far. I hope you'll take a look and see that I did follow this tutorial's suggestions without actually having read it. So she does follow the Disney Rules (like I tried) BUT she's chubby!
Michelle
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cool. but i always get disney eyes weird...
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I "got" your sense of playfulness with the tutorial and was amused by it. And I certainly didn't see much difference from what you did talking about "Disney" style than what others do when speaking about stereotypical American Superhero/heroine comics style or manga/anime style. If people say that your tutorial comes off sounding this way or that way, well my opinion is that ANY tutorial can come off sounding either too boring, dry and technical (if you take all the fun out of it and stick to just the technicalities) or arrogant and know-it-all-like (if you try to instill a bit of humor to the endeavor) just depending on the learner's point of view.You are never going to win with all people when it comes to something like that. (And if they didn't care to learn that particular thing then why read the tutorial or critique it? That would be like a surgeon criticizing the training lesson for an apprentice electrician.) Makes one appreciate what teachers deal with daily doesn't it? [Best advice I got was from a pottery teacher: Even if you think no one will ever care or bother with this old ugly piece; don't discard it. Smash your old stuff into tiny pieces and then bury it or someone will find it and it will come back to haunt you. That I can promise you.]
Just a side-note, but speaking of the currently popular Japanese "manga" style that many Western artists are trying to emulate; it's a well-known legend that Tezuka (Astro Boy) got his big-eyed character designs by emulating what Disney was already doing with his characters like Mickey and Snow White. So I love your description of "sugar-cookie" child-like big eyes because that does describe rather well the big eyes of both styles. It's interesting to note that if you look at Shoujo manga girls and Disney girls you'll some definite similarities. Big doe-like eyes, odd-sized head to body ratio, super-elongated legs with tiny feet. Check, check, check and oh yes, check. Odd that I don't hear outrage over the fact that that drawing style has slowing been growing in popularity especially among kids and young adults. Especially when the shoujo manga drawing style makes everyone look like odd adult-sized child-like caucasians as well and it comes a from a culture that has distinct ethnic features which they purposely never feature in that popular style. It's just another stylistic way to simplify and aesthetically idealize the human form. It's not reality. We've been doing it for millenia. I'm pretty sure the Egyptians didn't think people should really try to walk and look as they did in their paintings. People need to relax.
Anyhow I'm happy to have discovered you via the Facebook link but am disheartened that by linking your image dA may drive you away because people on Facebook feel like they can be horribly cruel and not even take the time to actually come to your site and read through the whole tutorial and your comments at the end. I've seen this happen several times to other artists. It makes me question anything that I've posted or will post and whether I should even stick with this site . But I also realize that you will find rude and callous folks anywhere you go and the anonymity of the internet brings them in droves. Haters just look for something to hate and bring themselves up by knocking others down and delight in typing out twisted truths and poorly disguised insults that they would never say to a person's face.
So chin up Oceanstarlet, and keep drawing and posting! You have a cute and fun style and I'd love to see where you take it! (I especially love the recent speed drawings of your friends! They have such a spark of liveliness to them!)
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This is so helpful! Ohmigoodness. Thanks so very, very much! YaY!
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What about asian girls? they have larger heads along with small frames and feet..does that make them not real women?
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Nothing about someone's anatomy makes them less of a real woman.
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Yeah I know, I was just messing around. Although I must admit, the facebook DA status update seemed a bit preachy... Have you received a lot of negative comments since that's been up? orr..?
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tonnnnns it's making a a sad day even sadder
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I don't blame you, it's the DA facebook article, it basically highlights only the upper part, and makes it seem like a negative critique on how Disney doesn't make women look like "real" women. The Deviantart comments themselves actually seem to reinforce that assertion.
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just saw this on facebook, from deviantart's page...
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