Finally!!! Done with that sailor senshi lineart I posted a while ago! I needed this really XDD For ages I wanted to do a SM fanart, just to see where my art is going (from a loyal naoko fan to... myself? 8D) and this one satisfied my ego 8) And while painting, I kind of liked how I could manage to distinguish each of their personality over one emotion, sadness or sadness coming from a guilt. I tried to imagine each of them as do to my characters, not as the way they're shown on anime or manga. And while doing so I decided to do something different, I didn't want to draw them cheerful, cheeky or eyes bright with victory. I wanted to draw them stripped off their smily faces and bear burden of their so called "beautiful soldiers of justice" task. (well, also there are zillions of bright faces of them anyway)

I listenned Kate Voegele's Hallelujah while drawing and inking lineart, and Massive Attack's Teardrop while painting Trust me, music is a strong fuel in art. ^^
Done with watercolors, for background I used a simple technique I learnt a while ago.

1)wet paper with a thick brush,
2)get paint with another brush and splatter around wet surface with simple dotting.
3)quickly pour salt over paint and wait until it dries to peel off salt.

Result is as seen above 8D Also salt breaks into tiny pieces, leaving a glitterry surface over the paint as well :3 Which is a cool addition since I wanted a starry like bg ^^

Sorry for poor quality I had to take a picture with digicam and then edit it on an endlessly blurring monitor @__@;;; Well, hopefully it's looking fine. On August I2ll get both, a brand new scanner and a monitor X3 So I caqn then scan these babies for a decent printing quality! \>w</ Huzzaaaah!!!

I might though... just might, sell each of the original piece. Let me know how you'd like to use these though. I can only think of a keychain and bookmark for now

Sailor senshi © Naoko Takeuchi.
Art by me