Ashitaka's Journey to the West + Process

AKA Why I'm not in Studio Ghibli.

8x14" Gouache on Cold-pressed Watercolour paper

Master Copy from Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke:


Colours based on a screenshot in the movie (I missed that mark by a mile):

Drawing and value scale based on the unmodified version (concept art?) of the above image:
...since the screenshot was too blurry.

Process:


EDIT 03/20/10: The foreground values of the grass annoyed me to no end. Fixed.

EDIT 03/24/10: Clouds were a little blocky. Fixed, though the rendering still doesn't come close to the original.