Couple things
Wanted to give a shout-out to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mindways for reminding me of the value of practice. I dug out my Spirited Away storybook today, and realized that while I'm not yet a Ghibli-level artist, I can see the influences in my work and I've got some ideas of the way to get there from here -- and some of those ideas are not too hard.
Some of that is baldface practice via copying. I am likely to do that. There may at some point be art to give away -- I wouldn't feel comfortable selling straight copies.
Kinda wish I had the art book instead of the story book, not because of the art (though that'd be nice), but because the Japanese in the story book is in large type and is easy to read and I am very, very tempted to spend time trying to understand it. My life, as it turns out, does not run in ever-widening circles. It runs in ever-expanding webs.
I do have the Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle artbooks. But Spirited Away is still my favorite.
Also, I realized ... Mala has a lot in common with Chihiro.
mindways for reminding me of the value of practice. I dug out my Spirited Away storybook today, and realized that while I'm not yet a Ghibli-level artist, I can see the influences in my work and I've got some ideas of the way to get there from here -- and some of those ideas are not too hard.Some of that is baldface practice via copying. I am likely to do that. There may at some point be art to give away -- I wouldn't feel comfortable selling straight copies.
Kinda wish I had the art book instead of the story book, not because of the art (though that'd be nice), but because the Japanese in the story book is in large type and is easy to read and I am very, very tempted to spend time trying to understand it. My life, as it turns out, does not run in ever-widening circles. It runs in ever-expanding webs.
I do have the Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle artbooks. But Spirited Away is still my favorite.
Also, I realized ... Mala has a lot in common with Chihiro.