Arietta's Wardrobe ♥︎

I might have wanted to make this post because I wanted to get rid of several bookmarks I've been hoarding in my Chrome browser...

For the uninitiated, Arietta Cadenza is my "Beauty and the Beast" fan character (also partly a self-insert/Disneysona)! She is the only child/daughter of Maestro Cadenza and Madame du Garderobe from the 2017 live-action remake of the Disney film. While she technically doesn't exist in the original 1991 animated film (as her father is also a 2017-exclusive character), I also imagine she'd be the daughter of Forte from the 1997 midquel "The Enchanted Christmas" if she was animated in 2D.
However, because Cadenza and Garderobe are currently my only true and honest comfort characters™️, I'm more attached to the idea of Arietta being their child instead of Forte's.

Anyway, let's discuss what Arietta would wear!

From what I discovered through googling, there is some debate as to where the Disney adaptions of "Beauty and the Beast" take place. Some people think the animated versions take place either during the 18th or 19th centuries, while the 2017 live-action version is clearly influenced by the 18th century. I also personally think it's based in the 18th century, as the original story itself was written in 1740. Therefore, I've opted to choose wardrobe pieces that are influenced by those worn during at least the mid-18th century.

For reference, these are the fashion pieces worn by Arietta's parents:

the outfit worn by Arietta's mother, Madame du Garderobe, at the beginning of the film

the outfit worn by Arietta's father, Maestro Cadenza, at the beginning of the film (I could've sworn there was a version of his outfit where the costume was displayed on a mannequin similar to Garderobe's outfit above, but upon clicking the link, I found it was broken)

a bust/headshot of Arietta's mother. Isn't she gorgeous? 💖

a bust/headshot of Arietta's father. Isn't he adorable? 💕

Arietta's parents side by side!

Arietta's parents in their outfits that appear for like a brief ten seconds at the end of the film (gotta gush here a bit: why don't we see more of these fits?? These two are so adorable and THEY DESERVE MORE SCREEN TIME-) 

Okay, okay, I'm done gushing about Arietta's parents, I swear...

Onto Arietta's own outfits! 
I found many of these dresses on a site called "Antique Lilac" - the dev makes these very gorgeous and intricate ball-jointed dolls with exquisite outfits! To me, quite a few of them kind of have that blend between historical and fantasy - perfect for the Disney universe!

The dress below was one of the first pieces I discovered from the Antique Lilac website. I think I may have originally found it on Pinterest, but it paved the way to a new source I could use as inspiration for my characters' outfits!
I always imagined Arietta would wear cool colors like violet/indigo at the beginning of BaTB (Beauty and the Beast), and knowing the workers at Prince Adam's court wear very intricate outfits, I knew this dress was perfect for the court violinist!
Even the hairstyle on this doll is perfect for Arietta! Since she is a biracial child, I always imagined she'd have curly-ish hair like this.

The following dress seems like something that Arietta would wear as a younger child. I love the bright, cutesy colors!

Moving even more backward in time, I could see the dress below being worn by a baby Arietta! I think it's more Victorian in design, but considering that one anachronistic dress worn by Belle in the live-action BaTB, this probably wouldn't be out of left field to include anyway in the film.

The outfit below could probably be worn by a child Arietta when she'd just go out to run errands in her home village. Green happens to be one of her favorite colors!

My other OC Kristin would definitely approve of the next outfit, knowing her love of the color pink! This dress would probably be worn by Arietta at the end of the film.

My Animal Jam masterpieces!

 As a follow-up to my previous post describing my experience having a membership on Animal Jam (a game I used to play religiously when I was younger) for the first time, I have decided to make a kind of "master list" of all the masterpieces I created on the game!

If you're not familiar with what masterpieces are on AJ, they're basically just little decorations you can create through their built-in art program (equivalent to MS Paint).
Confession, I never really used said art program before my membership trial, mostly because you could only really make masterpieces if you were a member (nonmembers were only able to make them if they had "Masterpiece Tokens", which are kind of hard to come by if I'm not mistaken). 

By the way, I should mention that you're going to notice these masterpieces seem to have been created by two different users: "xxTheLivelyOnexx" and "princesskittykins"; these are both me! The former is my main account and the latter is my side one. I redeemed the membership trial a week or so later on my side account just for the sole purpose of creating more art to display in my main account's den. ^^;

I only made one actual masterpiece back in the day (probably around 2017-2019????? I don't know, as far as I know, there's no actual way to see when you created a masterpiece on AJ unless you actually wrote it down in the art program lol) and it's this one:

It's my OC, Lily! (she's not a princess anymore, and plus, her whole look is outdated)

Here she is again, this time made during my membership trial:

Yup, a clear improvement! ✨

The rest of the masterpieces below were created during my membership trial.

This one was created as a sort of "greeting" for people who visited my den.

A creative (?) subvert on the "not like the other girls" trope featuring Stacy Willow and her sisters.

Stacy's sister Becky (on the right) and Lily's rival/frenemy Mariangela (on the left) share these common traits: they both like to wear their hair in ponytails and revel in the limelight of popularity!

My Beauty and the Beast OC/main Disneysona, Arietta Cadenza. The violin kind of sucks, but whatever...

Both of these feature my OC, Elisabeth "Lissie"!

It's cut off in the bottom left on the first image, but the outfit she's wearing is inspired by artwork by VIVINOS, a Korean animator I like.

The second image features Lissie as she appears normally (left) and as a Dungeons and Dragons character (right).

Lissie's mother, Rose! (also the inspiration for some of the animals that I created)

Mother and daughter doing their looks for their day in a mirror!
I know the "mirror" obviously sucks, but I'd argue Lissie's hands are also quite awful...

I like to call this one a "subtle contribution for pride month".

You see, not only does AJ impose a strict chat filter that prevents you from saying any pride-related words ("gay", "lesbian", bisexual, etc. - while I am aware that at the end of the day, this is a kids' game and anything remotely "sexual"-related is going to be banned. This extends to masterpieces as well, though some players have kind of gotten around this, mostly by drawing pronouns and pride flags in the background. After all, if you can't say you're gay, why not show it instead in the form of a flag?

With all this in mind, I chose to draw my OC, Caelus, who was originally modeled after the rainbow goddess, Iris! Yes, she indeed does have rainbow hair, and she loves everyone who lives below her sky kingdom. ♥︎

Speaking of rainbows, here's my take on the wannabe scene queen my younger self really wanted to be!!!

Little Maddy thought jet black hair and green eyes was like, the perfect combo (you can see how this translated into my awful self insert, Charlotte Li), and she was obsessed with all things cutesy and rainbow. She also really wanted to wear arm warmers, for some reason.
Maybe because a lot of the avatars on the games I played back in the day dressed like scene kids/emos...

I mentioned Charlotte, so here she is! Of course, she gets rainbows as well because uWu sO kAwAii!!!!11!!!

Oh boy, have I got a story behind this one.

First of all, these are my characters (l-r:), Crystal, Emiko, and Vesta. They're actually princesses and revamps of some old Super Mario characters that were basically just recolors of already existing characters, haha. 
Originally, I created a masterpiece featuring Emiko and her older adoptive sister, Maiko. It was basically just a cute shot of the two hugging with their names added next to them. For whatever reason, AJ denied it! 
Unfortunately, the game does have a habit of flagging quite a bit of harmless masterpieces as containing "inappropriate content"; I don't know if that's the fault of an automatic moderator or an actual human moderator who decided to be a piece of trash.
I was determined to make a piece featuring my Mario characters, however, so I just put Emiko alongside two different characters, all in fairly neutral poses, and just had her say something. Sadly, her older sister had to go, but it was worth the approval of the AJ moderators! ^^;

Last but not least, here are my Ancient Egyptian characters, Princesses Berenice Hotep and Ra-nefer-u!

You can view all these masterpieces at my den - they're all displayed with my main account, xxTheLivelyOnexx (NOT MY SIDE ACCOUNT!) You'll also find a few masterpieces that were bought from other people because I thought they looked cool! 
My den should be open for everyone to visit (not just friends), so you can just look up my name and come visit!