#character: mitusha miyamizu from kimi no na wa

[karis-portfolio]

notes:

- this was a way for me to practice 3-point perspective + the use of gouache as a texture in my art. Character was based off of Mitsuha Miyamizu from Makoto Shinkai’s Kimi no Na Wa(2016). In the film, Mitsuha, who lives in a rural part of Japan, periodically switches bodies with Taki, a boy from metropolitan Tokyo. Over the course of time, Mitsuha becomes more familiar with city life and learns to adjust to it. Eventually, the city of Tokyo(along with Taki) becomes a significant part of her life. With this piece, I wanted to convey the concept of a modern city becoming ingrained in someone raised in an otherwise traditional environment(Mitsuha was raised as a shrine maiden.) Therefore, I wanted to contrast the cooler, translucent qualities of the “city” portion with the more opaque, warm-coloured tie in her hair so as to show that although the two parts of her life are inherently different, they are just as striking and important as each other.

colours used: phthalo. blue cadmium red deep hue gamboge hue