#Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service

[illustrations-fantasies]

Studio Ghibli

Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service

1989

[balu8]

Kiki's Delivery Service 

directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Concept art

Studio Ghibli 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!

[mofo-hd]

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Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Studio Ghibli

[mbscribbles]

Did this super cute Ghibli commission 💜

[conceptartbyshay]

kiki’s bedroom

procreate

november 17, 2024

[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

[krzaczekuwu]

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

[sabertoothwalrus]

your character designs are incredible! do you keep anything/any thought processes in mind as you draw fanart vs how you draw ocs?

OOOOOO what a fun question...

I'd say my general thought process about how to build a new character-- figuring out who they are and what they do and what they're like-- is all pretty much the same across the board. The main difference between designing fan characters vs original characters is how I answer those sorts of questions.

For original characters, it can be almost overwhelming because I get to choose everything. I can make everything perfectly suited to my own tastes, except I have a broad range of things I like, and my tastes change constantly FJHFHD so depending on the project, choosing a more specific direction helps narrow things down.

Here's some old ocs I redrew recently. They're from an old story I'm not planning on revisiting, but it was about an art student, her little brother, and some grim reapers. Can you tell who is who?

I wanted the alive characters to have a lot of Opposites from the reapers. Warm vs Cool colors. Round vs Angular shapes. I wanted the reapers to look skeletal and sickly looking, and it was important that they all had some kind of hood. They needed to wear black & grey, but their colors still needed to be interesting, so they're all tinted with a color (one is sort-of blue, one is sort-of red, one is sort-of purple).

The story is more serious, so it felt appropriate that the characters were more realistically proportioned compared to some of the cartoonier designs I tend to do. They're still heavily stylized, and I tried to push myself to go harder on the shape language and Appeal™.

For fan characters, it's actually a lot of fun because so much of the work has been done for you. The more source material you have to work with, the less you have to come up with.

So, an example I'm going to use is Hugh Dini, a character I came up with as part of a fan concept for a new entry in the Ace Attorney series.

Phoenix Wright's daughter, Trucy, is a magician. She was 17 in her last appearance, and my fan concept takes place 7 years later, so she'd be 24. I decided she'd have a boyfriend who is also her assistant, and went from there.

I knew Hugh was going to be a defendant, which according to Ace Attorney rules means that he'd be falsely accused of murder. I needed to create a guy who was sympathetic, someone that you'd WANT to help prove his innocence.

What I did was reference existing characters from the games who fit similar archetypes and took a lot of design cues from them. I also referenced characters like Fukuo from Kiki's Delivery Service, who is a delightful himbo wifeguy that looks a little intimidating but is actually just kinda shy. And then I looked at actual photos of stage magician costumes for additional inspiration. THEN I go back to the source material to compare design details I want to add (ex, Hugh's high collar, his cuffs, the collar, the cape being turned into fringe on his jacket) and see if it already exists somewhere. No point in reinventing the wheel if I don't need to!

I wanted him to be like a "sexy magician's assistant", which I thought was a funny contrast to his restrained demeanor. He needed to be flashy, but not TOO flashy that he'd upstage Trucy. And additionally, since this is a game series where the characters are mostly seen from the waist up, I tried to keep his most interesting details in the top half of his design (but honestly in hindsight, I could have given him more. like Zak Gramarye's thigh-strap belt bag, perhaps).

Some other things I like to do when creating fan designs is to "roleplay" being the designers of the source material. If concept art is available, I reference that. I like to find the design quirks the character designers favor, and use them to make my own designs more convincing. If I'm designing something for, say, a european tv show that came out in 2005, I'd refer to the fashion and design tendencies that were most prevalent in the culture then, because that's what the actual character designers would have been most inspired by. But I'm not perfect, I'm gonna have the biases of an american lesbian living in 2025 no matter how hard I try LMAO

Hopefully I was able to answer your question!

[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.

[balu8]

Kiki's Delivery Service

Concept art by Yoshifumi Kondo

(The Art of Kiki's Delivery Sevice)

Viz

[theladyheroine]

Team Sonic’s Favorite Ghibli Movies 🌱

❥ Hello everyone! 👋🏽 Special thanks to @gume-no-nikki for giving me this idea, but I hope you all have fun & enjoy! Thank you! 🙏

Sonic 💙

My Neighbor Totoro

Found the VHS version in a box of Maddie’s childhood things & was intrigued by the older art style. He did think Totoro was a little creepy at first but liked him after the bus stop scene. Will sometimes use a big leaf or branch as an umbrella for Ozzy.

Thinks the concept of moving to the countryside as a fun film since he came to Green Hills not long ago. The relaxing moments in the backyard or hanging with Totoro always make him smile! Will go scouring for acorns with Tom at camping.

Was genuinely worried when Mei got lost the first time he watched it. The guy who constantly asks where the adults are in films, especially when it comes to such a young character.

Tails 💛

Kiki’s Delivery Service

A protagonist that flies too! You know Tails is down for it! Thinks Kiki is such a sweet character & finds her relationship with Jiji really fun! Has brought up the topic of the family getting a cat, but poor Ozzy hightailed it outta there. 😅 So he settles for a kitty plush Maddie bought him.

Loves pancakes because of this film! The kind of fan that loves all the food aesthetics in Ghibli films, & will always get hungry after watching. Doesn’t like the concept of herring pumpkin pie, thinks it’s super gross…

Loves Kiki & Tombo’s relationship! He thinks Kiki needs to lighten up a little bit, but understands where she’s coming from. He likes how Tombo continues to stick by her, and his cool flying bike!

Knuckles ❤️

Howl’s Moving Castle

Another romance film comin’ in! Likes to watch this on down time or when he’s not busy training as a way to know more about Earth media. Thinks the music is very fun & sometimes calming, but Knuckles is here for Sophie! Loves her story, thinks she’s beautiful in every way!

He honestly didn’t like Howl at first. Believed he was a too forward with Sophie & even a little whiny. But later found him charming. Thinks they’re the best Ghibli couple, loves how sweet & dedicated they are to one another. Liked their personal growth too!

Tried eating actual eggshells after the breakfast scene & it did not go well. Knuckles thought he was tough enough to digest them & claimed “his body was not yet used to it,” but Sonic made him spit them out.

Shadow 🖤

The Secret World of Arrietty

While the concept of little people living in houses was at first very strange to Shadow, he was eventually curious. Admires Arrietty because of her curiosity & courage to befriend Sho. Another character who reminds him of Maria because of how cheery she is. He also loves the aesthetic of her home.

This is a film he’s actually not too embarrassed about because he watches it with Tails. They both love the idea behind it & have thought about buying the books it’s based on. Plus, I think Tails is one who talks the least during movies… 😅

He doesn’t tell anyone this but whenever he’s out in nature or taking some time by himself, he’ll find little bugs or critters & wonders if they know tiny people. Has peeked in a few holes now & again, but grew cautious after finding baby rabbits.

[mofo-hd]

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Concept art for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Studio Ghibli

[gloomy-prince]

To celebrate RAINBOW!'s release today, I'm going to go over all the daydream references that have been made so far, since it's fun for me to sneak them in 💖 there's a lot of them though, so it's gonna be under the cut!

Episode 1-- Kiki's Delivery Service and E.T.! People focus on the Kiki reference so much that the other seemed to be missed.

Episode 2-- Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion, Sailor Moon. Another one obvious enough to be called out in some comments. It was referenced again in episode 54, where this panel was taken from.

Episode 5-- Marceline, Adventure time. One of the few reference that isn't an outfit specifically, but a character.

Episode 11-- Revolutionary Girl Utena. Not necessarily supposed to be the characters themselves, just the outfits.

Episode 11-- Minako Aino, Sailor Moon. In hindsight, I don't remember why I chose this specific dress to reference and not the maid outfits from Sailor Stars or the fruits maid outfits from the manga... especially since I think the fruits maid outfits are adorable.

Episode 11-- Catra, She-Ra reboot. I kind of regretted this one immediately just because like 80% of the comments on the episode were "CATRA SUIT!!!" as a result...

Episode 18-- Sailor Moon manga. I was always intrigued by the way characters would be dressed in dreamlike/ethereal sequences in the manga, so this reference was a must for me. I went with the version that is a full dress with straps rather than the dresses from other moments in the manga that have no discernible top half.

Episode 30 and 31-- Not a reference to any specific film or character, but just film noir in general. I do remember referencing a female character specifically for this but sadly I couldn't find it again.

Episode 40-- Pomeranian scene, IT Chapter Two. Surely you saw this coming (or maybe not?) I don't think I got the camera angle good enough to really sell this reference, but I couldn't resist it anyways.

Episode 43-- Adult Losers, IT Chapter Two. The only reference besides Marceline that references the characters themselves, since I normally use our other characters for background character purposes. Also one of the only references that isn't a daydream.

Episode 54-- Disney's Snow White and Cinderella. I couldn't decide which to reference, so I ended up leaning mostly into Cinderella, but referenced the Evil Queen's crown as well. Boo's dress is also somewhat referenced from the the live action Cinderella dress instead of the animated version, just because I liked it.

Episode 54-- Treasure Planet and Treasure Planet 2 concept art. Treasure planet is one of my favorite movies, so there was no way I was missing out on referencing it. A few people brought up some wlw pirate webcomic(s?) in the comments of this episode, but the actual reference seemed to be mostly missed. The sash around Boo's waist is also meant to be fabric from her princess dress in the previous panels.

Episode 54-- Revolutionary Girl Utena. Another one I was kind of surprised wasn't called out just because of how iconic the whole clothed shadow/silhouette thing is.

Episode 55-- Saint Tail. I couldn't reference this one as closely as I would have liked since it probably wouldn't have been very readable as a magician's costume to someone who didn't know it, so it mostly references the brooch from the anime and her hat.

Episode 61-- Jane Fonda in Spirits of the Dead. A super random and out there reference, especially to end on, but I liked the outfit so much that I couldn't help it. Maybe Boo used to fall asleep to old movie channels, lol.

That's it, at least for now! We'll have to see what shows up in future episodes~