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This is fanart from the book "Howl's Moving Caslte" by Diana Wynne Jones. After doing a deviantART search of "Howl's Moving Castle" and coming up with nothing but movie fanart I felt it was time to pay tribute to the book.Anyway, here you can see Wizard Howl, AKA Soceror Jenkin, AKA Wizard Pendragon, AKA Horrible Howl, AKA Sylvester Oak, AKA… you get the idea… off over the moors above Upper Folding to do some lady hunting with his ill-fated guitar. You can see the castle in the background, all tall turrets and belching smoke. I have tried to keep it as close to the description in the book as possible, with the lumpy coal bricks and the small door in the side. I wanted to somehow stick Calcifer in the picture, but I guess I shall have to do another one just for him. I think he will rather like that. Howl is, of course, still in his "fantastical blue-and-silver suit". I admit I am not much for designing clothes, and I have no idea what "inlets" are, but still I think it looks like something Howl would wear.
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Mixed media watercolors and colored pencil on matting board. Original size is a rather large 11"x14" and had to be scanned in two parts. Took a total of about six hours over three days.
Character and story © Diana Wynne Jones. Art © myself.
Enjoy!
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Exactly. The thing that annoyed me the most with the movie was that his family wasn't there. Little Mari was so cute--his relationship with her was absolutely adorable--and Miyazaki didn't show it. I love Miyazaki, don't get me wrong--and I loved the movie, but the book is better, I think.
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yes! finally! Fanart from the book! I loved the novel, the characters were so more robust. This is lovely, i wish i could use watercolours...*sob*..
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I hope you've also read Castle in the Air (a sequel to Howl's Moving Castle), and guess what! DWJ just published House of Many Ways, another sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. It's really great, too!
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Is Castle in the air any good? Do they all still have Howl in?
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Yes & Yes. To be fair, both Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways start out with different groups of characters and Howl comes in as a minor character (in excellently satisfying ways) in the second half of both books.
Also there are some new characters from Castle in the Air that show up in House of Many Ways.
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wow! thank you. ur very helpful! lol, i'm off to buy them then!
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Thanks so much!
And watercolors are really fun — they just get away from you sometimes.
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yeah, i probably should try and use them but i have such a small amount of patience! I do really love that piece of art tho!
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I love seeing a book version of this, and his suit is great. I like that you included his guitar
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I loved the way he carried the guitar about. X3
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yeah but if i remember correctly it gets smashed ^_^
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Yeah… and it has a… hmm… important role.
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yeah i really like the scare crow don't you ^_^
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Yeah, that was cool. 8D
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^_^ anyway did the movie look like you pictured it?
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Actually, the movie looked completely different! But it was really fun to someone else's vision: because it was so different the book and the movie are very separate in my head; albeit both equally good.
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yeah movie howl looked totally different
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oh yeah, he brought the guitar. 
love it.
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Yes, the guitar!
Thanks for the fave!
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I absolutely adore Howl's Moving Castle! I was never much of a fan of the movie, so I always get kind of sad when people have only ever heard of the movie.
This picture is so great! I love your artwork.
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Thanks so much!
I like the movie very much, but I will always love the book more. Yay for the cursed guitar!
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YAY!!!! BOOK FAN ART!!! I am going to get that book... I am hoping to go get it soon! I love that book and I am thrilled to find this deviation. You did so good!!!!
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Thank you so much!
Enjoy the book — it's ROCKS!
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HAH! Someone drew the silver suit! Still...I rather liked the lady-catching suit, and I think that's the one they had in the anime.
...I love Howl 'n all, but Sophie is just plain awesome, especially her brand of magic.
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Hmm, I havn't drawn Sophie (yet), but I have more DWJ fanart planned, so I'll keep that in mind.
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Yes! Someone read the book and did a fanart on it. I read the book before I'd ever heard of the movie although I loved both of them. I love this picture btw. It is gorgeous! You are very talented.
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Yay for a fellow book fan! 
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Yes! Someone read the book and did a fanart on it. I read the book before I'd ever heard of the movie although I loved both of them. I love this picture btw. It is gorgeous! You are very talented.
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Yes! Someone read the book and did a fanart on it. I read the book before I'd ever heard of the movie although I loved both of them. I love this picture btw. It is gorgeous! You are very talented.
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Just started reading the book, I really love it. I think its filling in some gaps that the movie confused me on.
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Yay! Good for you, you're in for a great ride!
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OK, just finished, and I love it! I really love the ending w/ everybody, and them holding hands and not paying a bit of attention to anyone else.
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I know, it's got one of the funnest endings ever! Also, DWJ has another book "Castle in the Sky" set in the same world with some recurring characters, it's also really fun!
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Pretty much just how I imagined it.
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Goodie! 
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Yes.
No offence to Miyazaki but he wasn't at all close. Then again I doubt that he was trying to be.
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I think Miyazaki was very much doing his own thing. Which I think is good: it was his own movie, but all the heart of the book was in it.
I read an interview with Diana Wynne Jones about the movie: apparently she liked it and got along with Miyazaki very well — and very much enjoyed his rendition of Howl.
But I like my version of the castle better.
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Like I said. He wasn’t trying to be the same.
I still love the movie. Totally worth going up to the nearest big city.
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I actually didn't see it until I could get it on DVD: the nearest theater is a 45 minute drive away, but they only play big blockbuster craptacular and Oscar-nominated movies. The nearest theater that was showing it was two hours away! 
Curse them and their sub-par distributing! Grr.
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I only had to drive an hour and a half 
The nearest theater to me is 20 minutes away but it only has the same sort of movies yours has.
You'd think with fourteen screens it would have some space for a Miyazaki film.
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Tell me about it.
I mean, explosions are fun but nice music and flowers are better for your brain, I think.
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I love your design for the blue suit! It's fabulous to see more HMC!book fanart--the movie is great, but the book is even more amazing. The colors in this are really wonderful, and congratulations on a lovely background! *can't draw backgrounds*
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Thanks very much! I'm glad there's someone else out there who appreciates book fanart!
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Ah, cool. Good book, and good movie. This is very good. I like your interpretation of the castle.
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Thank you, I tried to keep it as close to the description as I could, and also as I first imagined it.
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totally cool! great work as usual, you know I'M a fan
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