I have not submitted a terrible amount of OLD art to this dev site since I feel I've come a long way and it doesn't make much sense to focus on the old. However, ~crushed-melon submitted a FANTASTIC Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind fanart of Kushana which made me all soft and squishy and sentimental for the days when Miyazaki was my BIGGEST!!! idol. I painted this picture during my senior year of high school, when I was wasting time in AP art. (I had been an AP art student for three years, and suddenly decided I didn't want to do a portfolio, so I made my teacher VERY sad and dicked around for my last year.)

This became a capstone piece for my art work in high school. I completed it December 6th, 2000.

This is fan art of Nausicaä and a little known character from the manga--Ceraine, daughter of the forest. I fell in love with many of the minor characters in Miyazaki's fantastic manga, and for several years Ceraine was the moniker I was using online--from eBay right down to the Nausicaä fan site I ran through high school (http://nausicaa.wanfear.com/).

Acrylics on paper canvas, outlines with Sakura Micron pen. This is my take on a scene in the manga where Ceraine fixes Nausicaä's mask--except, of course, I failed to draw Ceraine's bubble tent in.

Characters copyright Hayao Miyazaki. ;3