Lost Hope

I needed to make a departure from the Sailor Moon fan-art for a new piece. I didn’t go into this painting intending to make something so dreary, but it progressed into this. Painting all those stains and wounds was a great learning process. I had to create some great grunge brushes I’m excited to keep experimenting with.

A few close-ups follow


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She is the one called…

You guessed it. More Sailor Moon. I’ll stop saying I’m done painting fanart of the character because clearly I’m lying. For some reason, I’m just having a really good time re-imagining Usagi, so maybe I should just keep painting her until it’s out of my system. I blame this new interpretation of her on my recent trip to Japan. Seeing all of the advertisements throughout Tokyo got me feeling creative. I wanted to paint Sailor Moon as a spokesperson and figured strawberry Bubble Tea would be a product she’d get behind.

Another image under the cut shows the illustration without the product shot and Japanese kanji. The style for this illustration was inspired by modern pin-up posters.


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Sailor Senshi Fan Art

I’ve already posted one piece of Sailor Moon fan art a few months ago but I had such a fun time painting the character, I decided to take another go at it. This time I expanded the challenge to capture the rest of the main Sailor Scouts as well! My geekery knows no bounds.


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Illustration Case-Study
Sailor Moon Fan-art. :D

I actually sat down with the intention of doing a Holiday-themed illustration, but somehow wound up drawing Sailor Moon instead. As always, see the full-sized image and the working process under the cut!


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Pistachio and Parrot

It’s been a long, snowed-in weekend. I was having a hard time being creative with so I went through an old sketchbook to find something worth painting. Luckily, I happened upon a sketch for the Dress-Up series I worked on last year. The first three images from the series have already been posted in the Portfolio section of the site and this new fella will join them shortly. Following my trend of naming the characters after different types of nuts, (Pecan, Peanut and Cashew so far) I decided to name this guy Pistachio.

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