Hello guys,
This is such a great challenge that it took me like 2 hours to decide how to participate!!! I think I’m gonna work on Mononoke and his wife from the Mononoke Hime watercolor book, by Hayao Miyazaki.
I hadn't heard about it until recently, it's an early draft of the movie by Miyazaki-sama and it was published as a storybook with wonderful watercolor illustrations. Here's a further description from [Nausicaa.net](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/books/mh/mononoke80.html):
[i]"This book is an early draft of Miyazaki's 1997 movie of the same name. While there are still a few similarities to the movie, such as an early battle scene with one man against uneven forces and a menacing "Iron Town," neither the book's plot nor the book's characters could possibly be confused with those of the movie. For instance, the two main characters of the book are a big Totoro-shaped mountain lion and a demure but determined girl who only wishes to help her father. The book is also set in a more recent Japanese feudal era than is the movie."[/i]
It is totally different than the Mononoke Hime movie we all know of course, but it's a good story and I want to make it come to life for the challenge :).
[b]STEP ONE!! RESEARCH LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW![/b]===============
[u][b]ORIGINAL REF.[/b][/u] Here are some illustrations from the book, they are all copyrighted to Hayao Miyazaki:
[img]http://s28.postimg.org/4tn6cuc7h/ref1.jpg[/img]
MONONOKE REF:
[img]http://s21.postimg.org/ejxr3tox3/ref2.jpg[/img]
GIRL REF:
[img]http://s27.postimg.org/84f2p5hvn/ref4.jpg[/img]
