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Oh_my_gosh. Two paintings in a row! Am I still...me?!
This is the final product for my class project. It was inked with micron pens and colored in acrylic washes on illustration board. The entire picture wouldn't fit in the scanner, but you get the idea. Some of the colors were super-functified by the scanner (like the darks...aren't actually that dark) and it looked a lot better before I had to shrink it for internet viewing
...so try not to hold that against me. 
This is the final product for my class project. It was inked with micron pens and colored in acrylic washes on illustration board. The entire picture wouldn't fit in the scanner, but you get the idea. Some of the colors were super-functified by the scanner (like the darks...aren't actually that dark) and it looked a lot better before I had to shrink it for internet viewing
...so try not to hold that against me. Image size
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I see this is pretty old work, but I know accolades never stop feeling great, even way after the fact. I've just read the book recently and have been on a hunt for book art, since most of HMC stuff is so Miyazaki-based (which is lovely, but I'm kind of a literary purist). Anyway- really love this, and it's quite unique; this is the only depiction of the giant suit scene I've run across, so kudos to you for picking something unusual. The folds of material are very well-done. All their expressions are great, but I particularly love Michael - poor Michael who gets ignored so much in art b/c everyone's in love with Howl/Sophie (admittedly, myself included). You managed to make him handsome while still a bit gawkily adolescent - a rare feat and spot-on to how I imagined him. Sophie's raised eyebrows give her that "ASK ME IF I'M SORRY" look that I imagine her getting every time she manages inadvertently to inconvenience Howl's vanity - fantastic. Howl looks wonderful, too, though if anything about this could be different, I'd love to see him flailing those sleeves around dramatically. Makes me want to do this scene myself!
Really nice background, too. Not so much that it makes the image cluttery, but enough to suggest the setting.
The acrylic washes gave you such a nice texture to everything. I'm so used to seeing and doing digital art now that I forget how much its "slickness" has taken over cultural consciousness. I need to go back to some traditional stuff, or else start playing with more digital texture.
Really nice background, too. Not so much that it makes the image cluttery, but enough to suggest the setting.
The acrylic washes gave you such a nice texture to everything. I'm so used to seeing and doing digital art now that I forget how much its "slickness" has taken over cultural consciousness. I need to go back to some traditional stuff, or else start playing with more digital texture.