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Two New Miyazaki – Sendak Mash-ups by Justin Hillgrove

Its been a couple years since my last Miyazaki/Sendak crossover and I’d been itching do another these last few months, though I think what really sparked the desire was listening to “Howl’s Moving Castle” again on audiobook (for probably the seventh time). I finally sat down in June and started looking over my worn out copy of “Where The Wild Things Are” (easily my favorite Children’s Book of all time) and started roughing out what new spread I might use. There were two spreads in particular that I could not decide between, and in the end I decided to paint them both.

I started with rough pencil doodles to figure out what Miyazaki characters would best fit the roles they’d be playing, and then I spent three days cleaning up the drawings and inking them while in my booth at the Edmonds Arts Festival in June 2015. Afterwards I picked out a couple canvases (18″ x 36″ is probably my favorite size canvas to paint on) and then spent the next few weeks painting…


Hungry and Homesick

“Hungry And Homesick”

18″ x 36″ acrylics on canvas. 2015.

Another in my tribute series mashing up “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak and some of my favorite Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki) characters: Kamaji, No Face (Spirited Away), Totoro and San (Princess Mononoke). There are a kodama and some soot sprites in there too.

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Hungry and Homesick


 

Well Eat You Up

“We’ll Eat You Up – We Love You So”

18″ x 36″ acrylics on canvas. 2015.

Another in my tribute series mashing up “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak and some of my favorite Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki) characters: San (Princess Mononoke), Totoro, No Face (Spirited Away), Ponyo, Turnip Head (Howl’s Moving Castle), Haku (Spirited Away), and an Ohmu (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind). There are kodama and some soot sprites in there too.

The title is part of the text from the page of “Where The Wild Things Are” that this painting is based on.

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We'll Eat You Up - We Love You SoClose Up

Close up details…

WIP

Work in progress…

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Sketch #234

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Sketch #234. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove. http://www.impsandmonsters.com

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Sketch-A-Day #225

Sketch-A-Day #225

Sketch-A-Day #225

Leaving in just a bit for London (to stomp around Great Britain and paint a mural at Facebook’s London office). I’ll be posting work-in-progress pics and a few other shots as well during the next 10 days.

Here’s a sketch of a new character that shows up briefly in “The Imp Lands” Issue #2 that I am currently trying to work on in my nearly non-existent free time. Sketch-A-Day #225. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

 

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Sketch-A-Day #221

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Sketch-A-Day #221. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove

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Sketch-A-Day #213

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Sketch-A-Day #213. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

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Sketch-A-Day #209

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Sketch-A-Day #209. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

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Sketch-A-Day #208

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Sketch-A-Day #208. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

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Sketch-A-Day #207

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Sketch-A-Day #207. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

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Sketch-A-Day #206

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It’s been a few weeks since the last sketch, but I’ll try to get it going again more regularly. Here’s #206. ©2014 Justin Hillgrove.

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Sketch-A-Day #204

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Sketch-A-Day #204. I felt like sketching a steam punk Alice in Wonderland scene. I say “sketch” but this took me all day 😛