HOME | DD

Description
You know, as much as I love studio ghibli, i have done very little ghibli art.

So... i didn't really know how zines work. I applied for this zine thing on tumblr and drew this before I knew whether i was accepted. I found out later that it was in the wrong dimensions, so I was like "shit." Luckily though I didn't get accepted so I didn't have to feel compelled to redraw/add to it.

The story behind it: I was reading Hayao Miyazaki's concept book for Laputa, and he mentioned that originally, Sheeta was going to be the daughter of pirates. And she had like a gun and stuff. I thought that was like the coolest idea in the world. What I drew here is Sheeta post-movie, where maybe it's been a while and she decided that she liked the adventurous lifestyle that pirates held, so she went back to Dola's gang and Dola basically adopted her. And yeah the way she's holding the broken bottle as if it's supposed to be slung over her shoulder is a little awkward, I realize it now, but I wanted it to be visible at least. And I tried to position the dove (y'all remember those doves? i think everyone has that phase as a kid where they're crushed because they found out that controlling birds using music is a lot harder than it appears) so that it looked like she had a wing, like in that Tezuka movie Metropolis, also because Miyazaki really loves wings and bird symbolism.

Description
You know, as much as I love studio ghibli, i have done very little ghibli art.

So... i didn't really know how zines work. I applied for this zine thing on tumblr and drew this before I knew whether i was accepted. I found out later that it was in the wrong dimensions, so I was like "shit." Luckily though I didn't get accepted so I didn't have to feel compelled to redraw/add to it.

The story behind it: I was reading Hayao Miyazaki's concept book for Laputa, and he mentioned that originally, Sheeta was going to be the daughter of pirates. And she had like a gun and stuff. I thought that was like the coolest idea in the world. What I drew here is Sheeta post-movie, where maybe it's been a while and she decided that she liked the adventurous lifestyle that pirates held, so she went back to Dola's gang and Dola basically adopted her. And yeah the way she's holding the broken bottle as if it's supposed to be slung over her shoulder is a little awkward, I realize it now, but I wanted it to be visible at least. And I tried to position the dove (y'all remember those doves? i think everyone has that phase as a kid where they're crushed because they found out that controlling birds using music is a lot harder than it appears) so that it looked like she had a wing, like in that Tezuka movie Metropolis, also because Miyazaki really loves wings and bird symbolism.