“Historical accuracy” and “Disney princesses”  aren’t usually two concepts that go together. But that hasn’t stopped concept  artist Claire Hummel from injected a little fact into those fictional  characters, at least where their clothes are concerned. Hummel combines her  costumer’s eye and affection for animation in her other fanart projects as well,  redesigning outfits for some familiar heroes and rendering others with cartoony,  and gorgeously colored, flair.

Hummel, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of  Design, works as a concept artist for Microsoft Game Studios, where she’s worked  on games from Asheron’s Call to Kinectimals. In her personal  art, she tends to lean toward nostalgia, hence her quest to redesign the outfits  of Sailor Moon and the Disney princesses. While the Disney movies aren’t pegged  to a particular time period (with the notable exception of Pocahontas),  Hummel found historical dresses that are similar to the princesses’ iconic looks  and recostumed them accordingly.It’s worth visiting Hummel’s deviantART gallery, where she goes by “Shoomlah,”  to read her explanations for selecting fashions from specific regions and  periods, as well as where she cheated. (For example, Belle’s over-the-elbows  gloves don’t match her late 18th-century French courtly dress, and Pocahontas  wouldn’t have worn a turquoise necklace.) She puts similar thoughtfulness into  her proposed redesigns for Spider-Man, Harley Quinn and Clone Wars  Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Her other fanart is stellar, especially her Seaking with  its tattooed Pokemon trainer, a piece that has justifiably been making the  rounds of the art blogs.