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.

Process

I started off relatively loose and, as usual, without having a real plan. I really need to start sketching ideas out first. Using some swimsuit models as pose reference, I blocked in the characters roughly and started to refine some features. The planet images are royalty free photographs I found online.

Built up their costumes, which I later changed. I was having a hard time keeping the characters feminine and ’sexy’ with all of the bows and baubles. Simplifying the costumes a bit made things a lot smoother.

I was having a hard time getting a look I wanted until I decided to completely repaint Usagi’s face. Suddenly the whole illustration had a ’style’ I was excited to work in.

Final Image

Overall, this is the biggest illustration challenge I’ve taken on in a really long time. I typically limit my personal illustrations to one character so painting five at once was certainly more difficult. The final result is marking what I hope is a turning point in my personal work. I think I achieved something different from my previous work with this painting and I hope to continue refining it.

One Response to “Sailor Senshi Fan Art”

1. Jenn says:

   February 21, 2010 at 8:09 am

   This is absolutely gorgeous jared!!! So awesome!

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