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It’s time for some “Hauru no ugoku shiro/Howl’s moving castle” fan art! Hayao Miyasaki makes beautiful and inspiring animations so I just had to do some fan art. I’ve never got around doing fan art of “Spirited away” or the adorable “My Neighbour Totoro” but “Howl’s moving castle” managed to inspire me enough to get some work done.

This is the wizard Hauru or Howl whatever you like to call him. I saw the original Japanese version so I’m going to call him Hauru. Anyway I really liked him, he’s such a mysterious and good-looking character. Plus he’s a real drama queen too, lol.

I wanted to do my own version of him, so he wouldn’t look like an exact copy of Hauru in the movie, I’m not very good at drawing anime anyway. The clothes look pretty much the same as in the movie besides maybe the jacket, I made too small squares! I don’t know why, probably because I didn’t have any god reference. Kind of stupid of me, more squares means more work. But I really didn’t feel like fixing it, I worked too hard on them already.

I decided to draw him with blonde hair which he has in the beginning of the movie. I think that’s the prettiest version of him. And apparently Hauru think so too, he really freaks out when his hair turns into black.

I must make sure to read the book by Diana Wynne Jones sometime!

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Wacom Tablet and Photoshop CS

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Hauru/Howl © Studio Ghibli/Diana Wynne Jones