Disney Characters Have Their Features And Styles Merged Together In This Artist's Fusion Series

A creative Dutch artist with tons of experience re-designing and re-creating Disney characters is back at it again with this diverse concept art that mashes-up heroines and princesses into one sleek design.

Elana

• Published in Disney
• November 19, 2021

A Dutch artist known only on social media as "willemijn1991" has inspired, delighted, and entertained countless fans all over the world many times over with her creative visions. She brings a wide variety of fascinating concepts to the viewer's eyes with her whimsical fan art, time and time again.

We have featured willemijn1991's art on many occasions, including when she transformed over 20 other Disney characters into mermaids like Ariel, when she gave over 15 Disney characters a sinister and "evil" makeover, and who could forget the modern fashion makeover designed for 25 Disney gal pals? This Dutch artist really has a flair for fun and she brings that sensation to every series she creates, including one of her most famous series that mashed-up Disney and Hogwarts.

Disney artists and concept directors surely had big ideas in mind when they were crafting the characters we would come to know and love for a lifetime, and then some, but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't thoroughly enjoy what creative ideas artistic fans gift to the world. It's a lot of fun to see our characters in entirely new and magical ways.

In fact, in many ways, this helps us re-live everything we love about Disney to begin with. You can see more of willemijn1991's work on DeviantArt.

1. Ariel & Pocahontas

2. Anna & Jasmine

3. Esmerelda & Aurora

4. Merida & Belle

5. Aurora & Megara

6. Cinderella & Giselle

Disney Princesses are broken into 3 main eras: The Classics Era from 1937-1959, The Renaissance Era from 1989-1999, and the New-Age Era from 2009-present. Each era of Disney Princesses seems to say a lot about how social expectations were transforming as time went on.

For example, The Classics Era has princesses like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. They are beautiful, passive princesses awaiting their prince to rescue them. The princesses of the Renaissance Era are often remarked as being the "rebel child" princesses.

The "rebel child" princesses were a push back and included outspoken princesses who made decisions against their social hierarchy. Princesses like Jasmine who ran away, Mulan who joined the military, Ariel who became a human, as well as Belle and Pocahontas who rejected the idea of marrying within the social order as expected.

According to Stanford Daily: "While the Renaissance Era improved on the Classics Era by making princesses curious about the world rather than doing the housework for others, Disney still stuck to the motif of princesses needing someone."

The New Age Era Princesses are independent, many without a love interest at all, who display work ethic and inspire as iconic role models for the youth demographic their stories are geared towards. Mulan may be the strongest and bravest Disney princess of them all, but you can't deny the empowering nature of princesses like Merida and Moana or Queen Elsa.

7. Merida & Ariel

8. Jasmine & Pocahontas

9. Cinderella & Elsa

10. Megara & Belle

11. Ariel & Megara

There are tons of fan theories about the intersections and relations among Disney characters, including Disney princesses! You may have heard some of the theories before.

After all, it's unmistakable that we see Rapunzel and Eugene at the gates of Elsa's coronation, but some fans theorize that Elsa and Rapnuzel's mothers are sisters "because they look very similar." On top of that, before Frozen 2 gave us all the answers to the unfortunate and untimely demise of Arrendale's King and Queen, fans once theorized that they were Tarzan's parents from Disney's animated Tarzan movie.

Those same fans often theorized (again, prior to Frozen 2,) that the sunken ship in The Little Mermaid, which would have likely been somewhere in the Danish seas, was actually Anna and Elsa's parents' ship. Not only that, but Frozen's writers totally fueled the flames of the Tarzan theory before conceptualizing the story for Frozen 2 by claiming in a Reddit AMA that Elsa and Anna's parents were on their way to a wedding and that they didn't die immediately at sea.

12. Belle & Megara

13. Esmerelda & Ariel

14. Anna & Cinderella

15. Belle & Jane

16. Jasmine & Snow White

17. Cinderella & Mulan

18. Ariel & Elsa

19. Elsa & Jasmine

20. Aurora & Mulan

21. Aurora & Rapunzel

22. Ariel & Tiana

23. Jasmine and Kida

24. Ariel & Belle

25. Belle & Kida

26. Tiana & Ariel

27. Jasmine & Snow White

28. Esmerelda & Jasmine

29. Belle & Elsa

30. Tiana & Cinderella

31. Anna & Belle

32. Cinderella & Jane

33. Cinderella & Pocahontas

34. Aurora & Belle

There are probably a million reasons to re-create a Disney character in your own vision and with your own style when you're an artist, so if you're a Disney fan who also has some artistic skills and abilities, don't hesitate to show the world what images dance around in your mind, too. The options are infinite and most Disney fans just can't get enough!

Elana