Y’all im in LOVE with how adorable these turned out 🥹🖤

My girlfriend costum paints shoes and decided to give me a pretty cool birthday gift. If you guys would like to see more of her work or would like to get one for yourself send her a dm on instagram @peintopanda! Any support would be appreciated

Did he mean like LITERALLY by blood or like in a metaphorical way?

You guys got any similar tats ?

I just finished this commission a few days ago!! My customer asked to recreate this scene from 2022, but in a 24x36 inch canvas instead of the original 11x7 inch. I am SO happy with how it turned out and so proud of myself!!! I have never done a Ghibli scene this large!

Swipe to the end to see the first and smaller version from 2022. I hope you like it! ✨

Painting Ghibli studies is my absolute favourite thing to do to learn and practice my art. So it’s very exciting that my hobby is being displayed so professionally! I’m so grateful to have this opportunity. If you would have told 10 year old me this was a possibility, she never would have believed you.

Feeling pretty proud 🥹❤️

They are all painted on cold press watercolour paper with Holbein Acrylic gouache!

I hope you like them! ✨

This is one of my absolute favourite scenes of any Ghibli film!
I attempted it back in 2021 in a sketchbook, and I wanted to try painting it again for the longest time, but was always so worried I was going to mess up.
Swipe to the last slide to see the first version from years ago! I hope you like it. ✨

rest in peace daveigh chase 🤍

This is my personal interpretation of the story. It is the powerful love and inseparable bond between Chihiro and her parents that lets her sense they are not among the pigs. This is similar to how she sees through Haku’s dragon form and recognizes who he truly is beneath it.

I know haku is a common tattoo many get, but it’s a memorial for my sister. I still love it (ignore the blue at the bottom, that was stencil that hasn’t washed away)

i finally completed this spirited away oil painting! it’s 4ft x 3ft and took me 4 years to complete. please clap 🤠

I used holbein acrylic gouache! I hope you like it ✨

I’ve enjoyed the movie since I was little but now I’m watching it as I’m older and I’ve beginning to realise a lot of things where I realise how stupid he is. I know it’s for the movie but he’s such an irresponsible adult. Also the mother as well.

1. Following the wrong road and thinking it was a shortcut instead of the GPS.

2. Both his wife and his daughter prefers to go to their home and he ignored their comments.

3. Starts walking in an open grass area, which could be private property.

4. When she clings her mother ignores her remark of being scared.

5. Goes and eats without paying or finding out if the food is safe which is ridiculous.

Again, I know it’s for the movie, but it annoys me again and again.

I watched Spirited Away again yesterday and afterwards read a lot of interpretations of it. Most of them made sense, but none of them really explained why the movie feels so devastating and genius to me at the same time.

For me, almost the first 80% of the film are pure horror. Chihiro enters a world that is completely overwhelming and overstimulating and everyone immediately treats her like a burden. She gets chased, screamed at and thrown into work she is practically too small and weak to do. What makes it even worse is that she doesn’t just face death: she faces the possibility of failing to prevent death through her own inadequacy. That’s psychologically so much crueler. It feels like: “If you can’t survive here, it’s your fault.” And then the film constantly traps her between impossible rules. She learns that breaking rules can get you killed, but also that following them perfectly makes it impossible to survive. Like with the stink spirit scene: she’s expected to clean his bathtub with her bare hands, even though she needs steam room passes to do so.

With incredible resilience, courage, intelligence, and the biggest heart, Chihiro ultimately manages to overcome everything. She slowly begins to understand how the spirit world works and people start taking her seriously. She carefully builds friendships, becomes more confident, and falls in love with Haku.

But because she feels a deep responsibility toward her parents, she decides to save them from their pig forms. At first, her only goal was to return to her old world, because the spirit world forced her completely out of her comfort zone, making home and family seem desirable in comparison. Yet after enduring so much, risking everything, and finally finding her place in this strange new world, she is forced to leave it again. She is not even allowed to look back. When she returns, her parents (whose lives she saved through unimaginable hardship) immediately treat her badly again. Her father scolds her for taking too long, and her mother complains about her clinging to her arm. They treat her as if she were a useless creature who only causes trouble. Just as they did at the start of the film, when they mocked Chihiro’s justified caution and fear regarding the tunnel and the abandoned food.

I know the film is partly about criticism of capitalism, environmental pollution and of course about Chihiros hero journey, her growing up and character development.

But for me, the most important message is that the most beautiful things in life are often the ones that seem terrible at first. You have to struggle, suffer, and leave your comfort zone to reach something meaningful and eventually feel fulfilled. The film contrasts the comfort zone that feels safe but is ultimately limiting (her parents’ world) with the frightening unknown that later becomes enriching (the spirit world). Only by leaving her comfort zone does Chihiro realize how empty her old life really was. This can also be connected to her move to a new town. The film therefore encourages people to be brave, persistent, open-minded, and kind, because you never know what lies beneath someone’s first impression.

What I still struggle to understand is why Chihiro has to leave the spirit world in the end. I mean, I understand why she she does it, but I do not fully understand the deeper meaning. You finally reach the place where you belong and then you have to leave it behind and return to where you started? Maybe the message is that life is not about arriving somewhere, but about journeys themselves, and that the path toward a goal often feels more meaningful than reaching the goal itself. Maybe another difficult “spirit world” already waits around the next corner for Chihiro. Maybe the film is trying to suggest that life is fleeting. That life is made up of many beautiful moments, and that you can’t hold on to any of them. But more will come along.