Haruhiko Mikimoto character design illustrations from Macross to Gundam

via Imgur

I remembered seeing his Macross 2 artworks illustrations as a teenager and only recently learned he did the poster for Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket. I actually started to watch Gundam and seeing the poster made me do more googling on him.

District Water color style artwork and a soft touch which makes mecha feel more airy and light.

Recently he has a new character design book published in addition to the previous illustrations one in 1992

Do purchase his latest book Haruhiko Mikimoto Character Design Archives here at Basheer.

For a review you can read it on ParkaBlogs.

https://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-haruhiko-mikimoto-character-design-archives

https://m.imgur.com/t/haruhiko_mikimoto/puPuldR Provided the Cover illustration to Gundam Hathaway

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket by Haruhiko Mikimoto (’Cellu Works’, 1991) https://t.co/XW4NwTf6ed pic.twitter.com/FPt5aXUiEN

— AnimArchive (@_animarchive) August 5, 2020

https://animarchive.tumblr.com/post/625626837449637888/mobile-suit-gundam-0080-war-in-the-pocket-by

New Hathaway’s Flash Poster revealed, drawn by character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto. from Gundam

Influences

• Shotaro Ishinomori (Manga illustrator)
• Yoko Tsuyatsu (Shojo Artist)
• Yoshihiko Yasuhiko (Soft-style Painter)

Haruhiko Mikimoto – Gundam 0080 : War int he Pocket pic.twitter.com/nLfldFU1qM

— VGAOfficialArt (@VGAOfficialArt) December 14, 2017

Twitter Art

Links:

https://macross.fandom.com/wiki/Haruhiko_Mikimoto

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=43

https://otakumode.com/shop/534e0be16acb28230e00014b/Haruhiko-Mikimoto-Gundam-Art-Book-Into-the-Sky

Old Hathaway’s flash character design by Haruhiko Mikimoto. from Gundam

https://shopforrocketfishheadset.blogspot.com/2020/11/gundam-0080-poster.html?m=1

Archive

https://archive.org/details/haruhikomikimotoillustrations/page/n22/mode/2up