March 21, 2025

Style Studies: Ghibli, Cartoon Saloon, Rumiko Takahashi & Milt Kahl

For today's study session I decided to put together some wheels to spin with $100+ patron characters and some of my childhood inspiration! The wheel came up with Studio Ghibli, Cartoon Saloon, Rumiko Takahashi, and Milt Kahl. I had a blast studying how these different creators/studios construct characters, and then experimented a bit with taking the lessons myself.

I learned a lot about different ways to do shape and gesture, although I definitely felt like I was having a hard time truly capturing the essence of their works when translating it through others' characters. Luckily, that's what studying is for!

Overall, I'm really happy these came out!

Comments (5)

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The Lonely Sand Person · March 22, 2025

I love artist process stuff like this. It's fascinating the details of style that you pick up on!

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eddi_TBH · March 22, 2025

Very nice.

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William Swiftfoot · March 21, 2025

This stuff is awesome!

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Patrick Horton · March 21, 2025

The Eevee-Bat thing is clearly the Ghibli inspired drawing.

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Julian Reight · March 21, 2025

Me likey