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Historic Maleficent

aniek90

Published: Feb 20, 2013

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Contest entry for

‘s Historical Disney Contest

I was actually planning on doing Tinkerbell next, but then I saw this club was having a contest that I just couldn’t resist. For quite some time I’ve been wanting to do Maleficent, my all time favorite villain, and this seemed the perfect time for it. I decided to give her a normal complexion, because green skin isn't very historically correct.

Now about the outfit. It’s mostly inspired by this picture niborama.files.wordpress.com/2… of Catherine of Cleves (1417-1479). I made black the main color, because it’s also Maleficents. Her Disney outfit also has purple and pink in it and I managed to integrate them in the sleeves, the belt and the borders. In the picture of Catherine I couldn’t see if she also had a belt, but I think the one I drew suits the picture and could have been quite a possibility five hundred, six hundred years ago. Instead of a necklace, I gave Maleficent a brooch on her chest and I kept the little purse and vile which are attached to the belt. I figured that a witch or sorceress (maybe even normal women) would keep some herbs or potions on them. And if not that, you can just pretend our Mistress of all Evil has some money with her in her purse. Also, I decided that Maleficent could not be separated from her scepter and her dear pet, Diablo.

The hat is a horned headdress from around 1420, mostly based on this image: www.revivalclothing.com/images… I just made it a bit more elaborate to fit the dress. I know the picture doesn’t show any hair of the lady, but I tried it on Maleficent and it was just too ugly, really. So I gave her a little bit of hair or fabric, just to fill up the bald spot.

The background is based on Maleficent’s throne room in her castle. I played around a bit with the colors, but I do like the result