Howl's Moving Castle- Storyboards

Animation storyboards are an interesting form of sequential imaging, as their purpose is to effectively communicate camera angles and motion to the animators. They are the backbone of any animation or anything recorded on video (film etc). 

Each frame is roughly sketched, as can be seen in these storyboards for Studio Ghibli's adaptation of 'Howl's Moving Castle', and sometimes washes of colour are added to help define forms or express a certain mood that the animators can replicate when fleshing it out. 

Storyboards are useful for creating comics because you can easily map out how the panels with flow and work out the flow of the story. They're essentially rough comic strip mock ups.

Anyway, as pieces of art themselves I really love to look at them and especially these ones from the 'Howl's Moving Castle' artbook. I love the rough and ready nature and the lovely watercolour washes over the loose pencil lines.
Id love to replicate this sort of roughness, but still withhold in the intentional nature of it (ie. so they still look like finished illustrations and not just rushed sketches.)

Looking at these would help greatly for comic strips or sequential illustrations that rely heavily on action, the sketchy nature helps to create a dynamic feel and the transitions between them reflect the intensity of the scene when animated so i can provide alot of help with making an exciting comic scene.

I mostly just love storyboards, and I also love this film which constantly inspires me.