Reddit reviews The Art of Spirited Away

Thanks, they are just direct scans from The Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away which I photoshoped down to look a bit cleaner.

You can get “the art of” books for each individual movie they’ve made, however I have never seen one book that collates every movie.

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It is from the book "The Art Of Miyazaki's Spirited Away"!! It is an AMAZING piece of art, it even Includes the whole screenplay and dialogues. Definitely a treasure for any Ghibli lover! I absolutely recommend it if you can grab a copy :)

Given both like art, would a low-end drawing tablet be in the cards?

For Rylee, maybe an art kit composed of the following: Tachikawa nibs and holders and ink, or a finetipped pen set Deleter manga paper, and a grown up sketchbook a la trendy Moleskine or Pentalic or classic art student hardcovers like so. As she develops as an artist she'll learn more whether she likes different sizes, thicker or thinner paper, or toned paper. Maybe throw in a few making of books from her favorite series (like IDK this one for Avatar the Last Airbender or this one for Spirited Away.) Getting a good making of book for a movie or animated film can be life changing. For me, even though I read it years after Brother Bear came out, this was an enlightening read about the movie making process and has some seriously gorgeous art. I haven't read the one for Moana yet so I have no idea whether it leans more toward text (like the making of Hunchback of Notre Dame did...so very little art in that book) or pictures, but it's more recent than Brother Bear. And yes, most of us artists have these books on our shelves, albeit with different movies/series depending on taste. Some of the Marvel movies have excellent making of books too. ;)

I'd recommend some drawing books, but the ones I know all have nudity in them and I don't know how you'd feel about that. I'd caution against 'how to draw manga' books as a general rule, but I owned a few and some art very, very good at teaching how to direct the eye for storytelling.

For your younger, I'd suggest many of the same things, except maybe not the nibs and ink because sharp and messy. If you get either of them colored art supplies, I'd either make sure they get the exact same set of markers or colored pencils, or get one markers, the other colored pencils. It can be rough sharing an interest with a sibling. And maybe some Sideways Math from Wayside School (I'd also suggest all three Wayside School books, they're brain bendy in a good way). Another brain tickling book (for me it was, anyway) was the Phantom Tollbooth. Maybe a how to draw horses book. A making of book or two about movies she liked - Frozen, maybe? IDK. Maybe a Goldiblox set to get her engineer brain in gear. Oh! I forgot about Spirit, the animated horse movie no one remembers.

If she's a fan of any of the Studio Ghibli movies, chances are there is a really nice hardcover art book which make awesome gifts. Examples: Spirited Away, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service

Formatting might be slightly different, but I believe this has the same content:

Spirited Away

Kiki's Delivery Service

Totoro

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