Tinkerbell
June 4, 2012
Tinkerbell from Peter Pan.
This is a continuation of my previous attempts to envision Disney characters in “real life”.
my academic blog for my graphic design course at the Arts University College at Bournemouth 2009-2012. © Jirka Väätäinen www.jirkavinse.com
Tinkerbell from Peter Pan.
This is a continuation of my previous attempts to envision Disney characters in “real life”.
June 4, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I love your work!
June 4, 2012 at 12:28 pm
You should post a tutorial on how to do something like this with photo Manipulations.
June 12, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Yeah that gets requested a lot. But there’s is not an easy way to translate all of this into one tutorial…
June 4, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Hello Jirka…..I am from Mexico and I enyoy all your princess….They are beautiful. I´m collect them all and send them to my Girlfriend….She Loves them too. This Tinkerbell is wonderful, she seems ti be alive……well, sorry for my bad english…..I send you a hug from Mexico and I tell you that you have a wonderful talent…..regards, Jose Angel
June 4, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Hello! And thank you – I am glad you like them
June 4, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Spot on as always! Bravo!
June 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Thanks!
June 4, 2012 at 6:42 pm
What a cute fairy! It is always a pleasure to see your Disney work!!
June 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Thank you!
June 4, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Brilliant!! Do Belle’s next
June 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Thanks! She was one of the first ones I made though, so keep looking and you should find her already
June 5, 2012 at 10:05 am
I thought so!
I’ve went through all the Disney characters you’ve made last time and yesterday, I didn’t realise the ‘previous entries’ button. No wonder I thought Belle was already there but I somehow pictured Belle in her yellow dress. I love your work!
June 5, 2012 at 3:23 am
The best yet!
June 5, 2012 at 3:31 am
Reminds me of Riki Lindhome a bit – very lovely!
June 5, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Wow! I like that she still looks a little impish but still as young as a teen!
June 5, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Your work is very impressive! I can’t stop watching it, I spent my whole afternoon on your blog. But I wonder: how many hours or days did you spend on it? I know your busy and I find you very nice to answer to most of the comments. Thanks again for sharing your work!
June 12, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Thank you! I spent two days on this – probably something around 6 hours in total?
June 5, 2012 at 2:12 pm
She’s so beautiful ! great work! you continue to make us dream ! Sorry for
June 12, 2012 at 2:06 pm
THank you
June 5, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Awesome! I really like this one, great job!
June 5, 2012 at 5:10 pm
she reminds me of AnnaSophia Robb in “Bridge to Terabithia”
June 6, 2012 at 4:04 am
I just stumbled on your blog here, and may I say, I ADORE your realistic renditions of Disney characters! I love them all! I am interested in how you do it, and I would also like to suggest you do some of the princes and villains eventually!
June 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Thank you – and for the suggestions as well! It’s a combination of different tricks in photoshop – photo compositing, manipulation and digital painting.
June 6, 2012 at 1:06 pm
she looks like a character in “game of thrones!” Anyway she is gorgeous! You are truly gifted!
June 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Thank you!
June 6, 2012 at 1:09 pm
my three year old guessed all your princesses…you are a true artist..i love it!
June 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Great to hear! Thanks
June 7, 2012 at 7:44 am
wow she looks really amazing jirka! her face is just…. perfect! wow! great work! and i love her leaf dress too
June 7, 2012 at 7:55 pm
beautiful as always!
June 8, 2012 at 11:49 am
How about an Anastasia? She was always my favourite!
June 12, 2012 at 2:02 pm
She’s not really a Disney character, so I might leave her out just to keep this series consistent.
June 8, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Very cute, I love her hair!
June 9, 2012 at 1:48 am
Next do Anastasia!!!! these are amazing…. I’m entranced
June 9, 2012 at 1:51 am
Oh, and do Wendy (from Peter Pan)
June 12, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Hi Jirka! I discovered your stuff when it went viral on Tumblr! I recently wrote a post called “Top 10 Artist Recreations of Disney Princesses”, and I loved your stuff so much that you’ve made the list! You can check out the post here. I hope you enjoy!
June 20, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Thank you very much for sharing my work
June 14, 2012 at 3:40 pm
wow!!
you are really talented!!
I’m looking forward to see your aliel from little marmaid^^
from Japan
June 20, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Thank you! You can find Ariel here already
June 15, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Tinker Bell is my favorite and I absolutely love this! Awesome work!!
June 20, 2012 at 12:48 pm
I am glad you like it
June 18, 2012 at 4:16 pm
I’ve looked through your amazing art and i just had to stop and give out my congratulations! It looks amazing!
June 20, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Thank you very much!
June 19, 2012 at 1:23 am
Congratulations for your work!
You could do princess Kida next.
June 20, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Thanks! I just need to find time to watch Atlantis first
June 19, 2012 at 7:25 pm
I also suggest Anastasia (even though she’s not disney, everyone loves her! EVERYONE!) also Kita from Disney’s Atlantis would look really wild and cool
June 19, 2012 at 7:43 pm
ah Brave will be cool with the new movie coming out. A real looking Merida would be amazing!!!!
June 20, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefully I’ll get to see the movie some time soon!
June 20, 2012 at 1:39 am
Awesome as always! May I ask who you are planning to do next?
June 20, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Thanks! I am currently working on Wendy
June 21, 2012 at 2:52 am
I love Tink, but I’m so glad you’re doing Wendy next! I can’t wait to see it! Congrats on another fantastic piece.
June 21, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I love your work and you are a wonderful talent. My best friend introduce me to your work and i have been a fan since then. by the way you should try to do Tiana from the princess and the frog i would love to see how she comes out in real life lol. but i love your work.
June 24, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Thank you! I have already done Tiana
June 24, 2012 at 10:58 pm
As a Disney fan, I really have to tell you that I love your work ! Congrats !!! ^^
July 22, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Thanks! :>
June 24, 2012 at 11:19 pm
First of all, I want you to know that I love your Disney works! They are amazing, seriously! Tinkerbell could really look like that in real-life
You have a big talent! but I don’t understand how you “draw” them… Which programs do you use for creating such a beautiful work of art? 
July 22, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Thank you! I just use photoshop to create these, so it’s all digital. A combination of photo compositing, digital painting, photo manipulation etc.
June 29, 2012 at 4:49 pm
A friend and I just found your princess collection this morning and we love it. Do you sell prints of your work? I have two little girls who had a lot of fun looking through it all with me. They are wonderful!!
July 22, 2012 at 5:07 pm
I’m glad to hear you like it! But I don’t sell prints of my Disney inspired work, since I believe there might be a copyright issue with them being so heavily influenced by the Disney brand. Thanks though
July 5, 2012 at 7:07 pm
I gravitated here due to my three year old granddaughter, being a young English grandfather I enjoy your work almost as much as she does, thank you.
Darren and Phoebe x
July 22, 2012 at 5:04 pm
This means a lot
July 5, 2012 at 7:08 pm
ps: May I suggest a future attempt, Mrs Incredible?
July 22, 2012 at 5:04 pm
You sure may
Thanks for the suggestion, but to be honest, I don’t think I will get to her soon, if ever…
July 7, 2012 at 10:55 am
great work! everything is so awesome! Could you also do the princes? I wish to know how they wouls look like in real life, atleast if there was no real prince charming, atleast they would be real in your art.
looking forward to it! Thanks!
and please do take your time ^_^
July 22, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Thank you
But I don’t think I will be able to find the time and the motivation to get the princes done as well… Sorry
July 12, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Hi,
I absolutely love your Disney pictures and I check back every few days to see if there’s a new one! I was wondering do you use photographs of real people to create the pictures because some of them really remind me of different actresses/ singers or do you just work off the Disney picture?
Thanks,
Michelle
Oh and p.s. do you plan on doing any of the animal characters like Lady and the Tramp, the Lion King or the Aristocats? just curious!
July 22, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Hi there! Thank you
I’m glad you like these! Yes, I do use elements from photos of real people to create my vision. And I don’t think I will be doing any animal characters – it is more the facial features and human/character form that inspires me 
July 18, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Love this whole series- they are all beautiful!
July 20, 2012 at 11:29 pm
I am so jealous of your skill and artistic sense. Every detail is perfect from her slightly tousled hair, to her mischievous expression, to her gorgeous dress. Absolutely lovely!
July 22, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Thank you
No need to be jealous though!
July 27, 2012 at 10:04 am
Can you draw Disney Princes next? I’d looove love to see those princesin human form
AND I LOVE YOU WORKS!!!!
August 30, 2012 at 7:08 am
Thanks, but I don’t see myself doing the princes, sorry!
July 27, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Your work is INCREDIBLE! Love love love the reimagined Disney ladies. If you could offer a brief explanation of ‘photo manipulation’ – are these all photographs you’ve taken, or are they paintings you’ve photographed, or…?
August 30, 2012 at 7:07 am
Thank you! It’s mixed media really, I use small elements from various photos, manipulate and combine these to create my vision, and bring it all together by doing digital painting.
July 31, 2012 at 6:15 am
I love this series. Thank you for sharing. Will you do interpretations of Disney princes? I would love to see Shang from Mulan.
August 30, 2012 at 7:06 am
My pleasure! But I don’t think I will ever be doing the princes, sorry!
August 1, 2012 at 6:13 am
The girl from the film Atlantis would be interesting to see
I love your work!!! It’s ah-ma-zing!!!
August 9, 2012 at 11:26 am
All these are simply beautiful!!! I love Snow White especially. Would I be able to save these pictures and use them as avatars around various sites?
August 30, 2012 at 7:04 am
Thank you! And yes, as long as proper credit is given
August 16, 2012 at 7:54 am
How about making princes now :p ?
August 30, 2012 at 6:59 am
I don’t think it’s ever gonna happen, I’m sorry!
August 17, 2012 at 10:12 am
lets see wendy from peter pan too! im looking forward for brave’s merida and enchanted’s giselle
August 21, 2012 at 3:54 am
This is wonderful! great resemblance! I admire you! please continue the series. I’ll wait for new masterpieces!
August 30, 2012 at 6:57 am
Thank you
Will do if I ever find more time for these!
August 21, 2012 at 11:33 pm
Hey! what u did is cool! i wish could do that as well, but don’t think so..hehehe goodluck though..
August 30, 2012 at 6:56 am
Thanks
!
August 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Hi I was wondering if you sell copies of these? I would love to hang these in my daughters bedroom. All of them. They are wonderful.
August 30, 2012 at 6:56 am
Hi! Unfortunately I am not selling these, since I think there might be some kind of a copyright issue with these being heavily influenced by the Disney brand. But thanks
August 23, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Once again, you excel
Fantasmic job.
September 2, 2012 at 2:53 am
Amazing! Do Merida from Brave please!
September 3, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Disney needs to pay you to make prints of these… they are AWESOME and I would totally buy ‘em.
September 5, 2012 at 12:38 am
Amazing work!!!! have you any plans to create a real version of cruella de ville? or perhaps back to nice characters, and doing little April from the Recuers? and now you have Tinkerbell – please don’t forget about Wendy!
September 25, 2012 at 9:29 am
Thank you! I did think about doing Cruella once. But I just keep finding myself too busy to find time for more characters. I am working on Wendy at the moment – Hopefully I will actually get her done one day!
September 17, 2012 at 11:59 am
hey! I saw your ‘real-life’ disney princesses in tumblr. I must say,they are beautiful. I don’t know how you did that but I love it and i hope you don’t mind me saving those in my pc. hahaha XD I’m also thinking of printing them out and hang it on the wall in my room. also, if ever i’ll do my own interpretation of Jane I wish you wouldn’t mind checking it out. xD bec your work is gonna be my inspiration. “if ever”
September 25, 2012 at 9:19 am
Hey, and thanks! I’m glad to hear I’ve been able to inspire you
October 1, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Hello Jirka! I gotta say I met your work recently and I absolutely loved it! They’re so romantic and beautiful, they actually really do look like real persons. May I just ask you something? Do you inspire those princesses on other real celebrities? Because some of them remind me of real actresses, like your Cinderella, which I think that looks like Grace Kelly and Julie Andrews together…
I also wanted to give you some sugestions for new characters if you don’t mind. I know that right now you’re working on Wendy, but I’m also curious to see how would you make Lilo, or the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio, or that chick from Atlantis. And also, if you think about doing villains again, I wanted to see Yzma from the Emperor’s New Groove. I think she’s the best villain ever!
Once again, congratulations for your work and continue to do it. You really do have a gift for arts!
P.S: Please forgive me for my poor english. I’m brazilian and I haven’t finished my english studies yet…
January 23, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Hello! Thank you! Yes, sometimes I am inspired by celebrities and their features. Thank you for the suggestions as well
And your English is just perfect!
October 4, 2012 at 11:49 am
Hi, I’m from Indonesia, love your works so much, you are a great artist, will you do Merida from Brave, although she is from Pixar, but Pixar is part of disney right ?
Thank you
January 23, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Hi there! And thanks! We will see if I can find time for Merida in the future.
October 4, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I know that you have done Ursula, but you should do a series on Disney villains. Not just vilenesses, but male villains too.
January 23, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Would be great if I could find the time!
October 4, 2012 at 11:55 pm
I saw your works in Yahoo and finally found your blog. I really love Tinker Bell, can you make Peter Pan too?
January 23, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Thanks! But I think I will stick to the females only.
October 5, 2012 at 4:56 am
wah… beautifull !!
Good work ^.^
October 5, 2012 at 6:27 pm
OMG i am fan !! Where can i buy it ????
January 23, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Glad you like my work! But unfortunately I do not sell prints of these…
October 11, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Great Job!!!!!!!!
October 15, 2012 at 4:32 pm
OHMYGOSH! You are like so good! Can you do Maddelleine from The Hunchback of Notre Dame II??
January 23, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Thank you! I have not seen the sequel though…
October 26, 2012 at 2:54 am
Your work is breathtaking. I would buy every single one of these in a second. It brings the magical part of Disney princesses real. Truly amazing and inspiring. I can’t wait to see more.
January 23, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Thank you so much!
October 26, 2012 at 10:50 am
These are all amazing. PLEASE do one of Barbie!!
January 23, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Thanks! Haha, a good idea
November 16, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I am amazed at your work, I’ll probably forget this web page but I’m glad I’ve seen some fantastic artwork, that itself will always be a memory. I would love to see more, keep up the good work
January 23, 2013 at 11:58 am
December 8, 2012 at 2:41 pm
fantastic work! I am so glad someone did this. I always search the net for real-life disney interpretations, but they always disappoint me. Yours just keep getting better and better! Would love to see more non-princesses like Lilo (Lilo & Stitch), Kida (Atlantis), or Jesse (Toy Story). I’ll be looking for them!
January 23, 2013 at 11:57 am
Thank you very much! We will see if I can find the time to do more of these in the future.
December 8, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Another amazing villain to interpret would be Cruella De Ville!
December 10, 2012 at 9:43 pm
This is Amazing! Soo incredibly talented. Do you think you can also do one for Brave?
January 23, 2013 at 11:55 am
Thank you! Well in theory, why not, but I just don’t seem to find the time for these anymore. Maybe one day!
December 19, 2012 at 10:11 am
and you should absolutely do Anastasia although she is not Disney.. but wonderful character to portray.
January 3, 2013 at 8:40 am
Wow, these are really cool! Have you ever thought about doing an Anastasia one?
January 23, 2013 at 11:50 am
Thanks! I have thought about it, but I am looking to keep this project consistently Disney inspired
January 23, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Amazing work! I have followed your Disney work for over a year! Can’t wait for your next masterpiece! I would live to see kida, Wendy, Ariel’s sisters, Ursula as her beautiful form, or the girl from brave
February 7, 2013 at 1:20 pm
Thank you! Please be patient though
January 28, 2013 at 9:20 am
why not disney princes,,,i want to see Prince Adam (the beast)~
February 7, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Lack of time…
April 14, 2013 at 1:31 pm
These are all so so amazing! Thank you so much, I really love these images! And hey, a fellow Bournemouth-ite! =]
Serious talent =]
Nikki
sheworeribbon.wordpress.com
May 23, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Thank you very much
Aww, I do miss Bournemouth
April 17, 2013 at 2:53 am
Can you Brave’s Merida? Pleeeaase?
May 23, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Maybe one day!