10 Beginner Friendly Studio Ghibli Painting Ideas & Tips

In this video I show you a variety of Studio Ghibli inspired paintings that I've done over the last few years. I'm also sharing my tips for recreating movie scenes and giving you some ideas for your own sketchbooks and paintings.

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▶️ PRODUCTS USED:
Note: This video is a compilation of a lot of videos that I've created in the last few years. I can't link to every single product used for this reason.

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▶️ MOVIES/REFERENCES:

1. Landscape: My Neighbor Tortoro (I think)
2. Landscape: Howl's Moving Castle
3. City: Spirited Away
4. Cat from Kiki's Delivery Service
5. Landscape: Arrietty
6. 4 Landscapes on one page spread: Arrietty
7. 4 Landscapes/Scenes on one page spread: My Neighbor Tortoro
8. Watercolor Landscape: Porco Rosso
9. Scene from My Neighbor Tortoro with Karin Markers
10. House from Kiki's Delivery Service

[kanishkasewak]

"Simple and easy are not the same thing". Bravo! This needs to be said more often. Thank you.

[korotame]

"We're just having fun here" Exactly! :) that should art be...fun :) Love this video.

[standard]

The tip about printing and tracing is so good! I recently started doing that for my own designs - I draw something symmetrical on procreate, then print and use graphite paper to transfer it to my watercolor paper. I'll definitely try printing a few ghibli scenes to trace - like a gouache coloring page!

Also! Love the love for Arietty. That movie is so underrated!

[mjpete]

Nicely done, thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas and expertise with us! Lovely painting of the Ghibli scenes.

[ChantelleArts]

I remember that final house, it still amazes me! Definitely one of my favourite pieces you’ve created 😊

[FrogMag]

Thank a lot for this video. Once again, great advices and great tips to help us in our creations.
"Don't hesitate to mix media" I really have to keep this in mind.

[toArt]

this is beautiful ! thank you for sharing, hope u have a good day

[mariechristinebrocart]

Merci pour ce partage belle âme . J’adore ❤

[theflamingpearl]

I wonder how you can access the scenes from the ghibli movies.

[ritawilbur]

HI Melanie, I notice that you always use a rather small round brush. I was surprised to see you use it on that big painting from Spirited Away. I'm wondering if it provides more water control? Or maybe it's just what you're used to. But I'm always impressed how you can get such smooth, consistent results with such a small brush. I'd appreciate if you'd comment about why you use such small brushes. Thanks! Oh - and to show how different people are different, I actually prefer to draw/paint the people from Ghibli movies, because they're so stylized and simple in design, whereas I always find the landscapes intimidating - so much detail! I think I've only done one Ghibli landscape, but it turn out pretty well!