Moon Heart XOXO Christmas feeling got me and the air smells like cinnamon so I needed to draw a dreamy Princess Serenity from Sailor Moon (๑>◡<๑) I think she will eat tons of cookys this year like me XD This is also a little birthday present for my dear Sis. I hope you like it.
Tools: Faber Castell Polychromos, Opaque White standart copy paper
Jay I finished my new Usagi Summer illustration with watercolors, copic markers and Faber Castell polychromo pencils. Naaahw I want go to the oceaaaaan (ᗒᗊᗕ)
Venus Power Make Up! Yush!! Minako Aino as Sailor Venus in my custom fashion design eheh. The blue and yellow are one of my favorite color combinations. They really make each other pop <3
Tools: Sakura Micron multiliner, Dr. Ph. Martins concentrated watercolors, Deleter opaque white, Faber Castell polychromos Holbein Artist`s watercolors, Copic marker, Canson mi teintes watercolor paper
It’s chibi time :).Princess Serenity coloured with copic markers. I added Japanese decorative paper as the background and some stickers: butterflies, lace and pearls.
My very old wip *version no. 3* found recently on my computer (there are different colour schemes but I like this one the most). I was never able to finish it. To be honest, I prefer it that way- as a wip :).
Super Sailor Moon ☾ inspired by a new movie (continuation of “Crystal” series available on Netflix). I rewatched the whole 90’s season with Pegasus too and I forgot how cool that one was.
THIS took a very long time. I don’t really have words for what pride month means to me because it means everything. To see people across the world coming together to celebrate something that I was once so afraid to admit, that it almost cost me my life. Pride is a beautiful thing. Life is a beautiful thing. My savior in those dark times was always Sailor Moon because she fought with the power of love and always gave those in need a second chance. She was (and still is) my guardian angel. She made me feel safe in times of hardship and became my greatest role model. In the anime in manga, she would have crushes on girls (Rei, Haruka) and that made me feel like what I was going through as a young gay man was normal. So in honor of pride, I have the beautifully rainbowed Sailor Cosmos done in photoshop with my gauche brush sets. The moonlight carries a message of love, for every one.
All of us read Japanese manga obsessively, and we still remember our favorite series and characters fondly. Adolescent girls are always full of romantic, unrealistic dreams—manga creates a world where it seems possible that those dreams might become real. To me, no matter how much the stories varied in genre, style, and setting, or how different their heroines are, their central theme is always the desire to become a better person, a unique and lovable girl. Here were some of my favorites growing up!
Tomie by Junji Ito
We’ve all heard stories of vengeful girlfriends and the ladies you shouldn’t have met. But Tomie—Tomie is all of that and more. She is beautiful, but hellish. Tomie is selfish, slutty, jealous, materialistic, insatiable, cruel, possessive, and vain. Her insatiable lust keeps her alive, regenerating her despite the best attempts of the men that she seduces, fascinates, and deranges. Men want to possess her so much that they cut her into pieces, like meat foam, but she will come back. She will grow under your carpet, inside a box, or even in cement. She is everywhere and she just doesn’t deserve death.
The combination of Tomie’s complete beauty and complete evil is monstrous but fascinating. Guys go so crazy for her that they will kill anyone to please her, but they also can’t resist the temptation to kill Tomie. Girls want to be her so much that they let Tomie occupy their body. She repulses readers, but sometimes, we secretly want to be just like her.
Nana by Ai Yazawa
Nana is both the title of this stylish, sexy series, and the shared name of its two protagonists. Nana Osaka is the edgy, self-assured vocalist in a punk band; Nana Komatsu is your average charming “hopeless good girl,” attempting to find a perfect romance but and always troubled by boyfriend problems. The girls end up living together in Tokyo, and the series follows the development of their complicated friendship anchored by mutual obsession, sexual interest, and jealousy. Punk Nana is the role model for girls in Asia. She looks indifferent and tough, but her heart is warm and gentle. Cute Nana, on the other hand, is impulsive, spoiled, and aimless, but we all identify with her and her struggles with learning how to grow up. As she learns to take care of others, to live on her own and to find her passion instead of desperately falling in love, so do we. Nana transposes our mundane lives into this glamorous story about sex, fashion, drama and lots of rock ‘n’ roll, showing us both who we are and who we could be.
Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
I can’t think of another manga that was more contagious than Sailor Moon in the 90s. It chronicles the adventures of a group of pretty 14-year-old magical girls, uniformed in mini skirts and cute boots, as they defend the solar system from evil. The guardians transform into soldiers and go into battle with omnipresent evil forces that attempt to control the earth or the universe.
Sailor Moon defined my childhood. I could watch the TV adaptation for hours and pretend to be one of the soldiers. Though I wasn’t crazy enough to collect all their spin off stuff, I did make my own wand, hoping secretly that I would discover a hidden super power, become a princess, and have a hopeless romance with a handsome boy like Sailor Moon did. I believe a lot girls hoped the same thing after watching the show because the guardians seemed so relatable. We always remembered that they were schoolgirls like us—their uniforms are altered sailor fuku, Japanese school uniforms. Now I think of it as just a silly and funny series, but Sailor Moon and her friends accompanied me through childhood.
