#Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service

[illustrations-fantasies]

Studio Ghibli

Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service

1989

[nickpeppermint]

Many people noticed that Giulia has similar clothes to Tombo from Kiki's Delivery Service

But Luca and Alberto also have outfits, strikingly similar to those of Conan from old Ghibli cartoon Future Boy Conan!

In most concept art, Luca is wearing white shirt, more closely resembling the one that Conan wore for some time

But in the movie, it has blue stripes, more similar to the one that on Fio

It was confirmed that towns name Portorosso - is a reference to Porco Rosso (It was also a second name of Luca in early concepts)

Could Luca's shirt be another Porco Rosso reference?

In my opinion, Future Boy Conan must've had a huge inspiration on Alberto character, not only his design, but also behavior, lifestyle and houses very similar!

I highly recommend this classic anime!

[nnaalluuaa]

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Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Studio Ghibli

[balu8]

Kiki's Delivery Service

Concept art by Yoshifumi Kondo

(The Art of Kiki's Delivery Sevice)

Viz

[mbscribbles]

Did this super cute Ghibli commission 💜

[kl0i3]

Cozy + Warm Ghibli watercolor art I made!! (commission)

[heliphantie]

“I have a pretty good intuition, so I've got reputation of being an excellent fortune-teller.” (Eiko Kadono, "Witch's Delivery Service")

(Fanart from December 2022.)

The “sister witch” from concept sketches to “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, published in artbook. Character designer: Katsuya Kondo, June 2 turned 60 years. Apparently, she was supposed to fill a role of older friend/mentor to Kiki, eventually that role has gone to Ursula the painter.

[hillbilly---man]

You're not allowed to take photos inside but we went to the Ghibli Museum today and I'm 1) glad we got the tickets, and 2) in need of a huge 3d zoetrope like the Totoro one they have there

Here are a few pictures we were allowed to take

[deadly-danaid]

Some Kiki inspired art

[chessdoesart]

absolutely stunning

The Art of Kiki’s Delivery Service (2006 art book)

[krzaczekuwu]

I am working on a full set of tarot cards for my sister so here are some concepts

[pickleslice]

i’ll buy a cute journal and then i can’t decide what to use it for so it’ll sit on my shelf then i’ll buy a cute journal and i can’t decide what to use it for if a journal isn’t for class or work i don’t know what else you’d use it for

[patricia-taxxon]

In art, positive feelings are dumb and negative feelings are smart. This is an association I've noticed in especially online discussions of media, it is an error that has gone uncorrected for entirely too long.

This association is bolstered whenever someone says that you shouldn't criticize the mario movie too harshly because it's "fun" and light frivolous things are self justifying. This association is bolstered whenever people continuously categorize media that makes you feel bad as a strictly adult afair, that anything sad or disquieting or revolting is somehow trying to outsmart you and you're actually very cool & hip for rejecting it in favor of dumb pleasures.

This association leaves two categories of art completely outside of discussion and dying for air. Firstly, art that is joyous and life affirming in a mature and reflective way. It'd seem almost sacrilegious to describe Kiki's Delivery Service as "Wholesome," even though it is such prime comfort cinema there's just so much more to it than that. It's a tangibly adult perspective on the themes it presents. But the "happy=dumb" association is set so deep that nearly all critical discussion about miyazaki's movies is about how pretty and sweet they are. They exist in this category of being overexposed yet somehow still unappreciated.

But then there's the inverse, art that makes you feel like shit in a simple and single minded way. Irreversible is the worst time you can have with a movie, probably, and it (affectionately) has nothing going on under the hood. It's a pain box. This category of art tends to confound folks far more than the previous, it elicits a "what's the point??" usually, or if any concession is made towards allowing uncomfortable art to exist it's with the caveat that it has to "justify" it's discomfort. Simple displeasures don't have the same assumed good faith as simple pleasures. The surface level ways in which a film like Irreversible makes you feel like you've been beat up after it's finished? Not worth mentioning.

There's graver consequences to these two boulder-sized blindspots in artistic conception. Like, because negative emotions are smart, people think that making entertainment out of real life tragedies can be de-facto respectful so long as they make the emotions in their entertainment negative enough. It doesn't matter that Netflix's Dahmer plays defense for the killer and uses the image of black people as a boringly virtuous collection of punching bags to milk tragedy from, if it just makes you feel bad enough, gives the surface level impression of graveness, then it's fine that you're making entertainment out of real life people's personal real life tragedy that still exists in recent memory for many people.

I want to elevate joy, bring it into critical attention, stop taking it for granted. I also want to de-elevate misery, take it off it's false pedestal, let us realize that it's all art. FEELINGS are self justifying, not just good ones.

[nnaalluuaa]

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Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Studio Ghibli

[balu8]

Kiki and her parents.

Concept art by Yoshifumi Kondō (March 31, 1950 – January 21, 1998)

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Studio Ghibli

[ghoulish-art-tendencies]

told myself i wasnt going to start my kikis delivery service AU fic until i finished my other two fics… and then immediately started writing for it so ig enjoy concept art for a fic thatll probably take forever to finish/get posted