A Sailor Moon Christmas Present

Many Many Many years ago, I looked at this image and drew a picture. It wasn’t very good:

This was my version. Not the full body because I couldn’t fit it, I obviously thought the bow was very important even though in the OG pic it was under her arms partially. It’s also drawn on old Dot Matrix Printer Paper because I had an entire box of that my mom had given me she had got from work when they switched from those types of Printers.

My Dad liked this image enough where he threw it in a little plastic protector and literally stapled it onto the wall of the garage and it has been there ever since. I probably created that picture when I was 10? 11? For Christmas I decided I would revisit this image to gift him (I am currently 37 years old).

The Finished Product

I could have done this digitally but I wanted to keep in with the spirit of the original drawing, so this is primarily watercolor with some acrylic paint and gel pens thrown in. I’m very happy with how it turned out and it was a lot of fun to see how I have changed as an artist with this image. It’s amazing what happens when you learn human anatomy.

I told my Dad he could hang this one up in the garage too, haha.

Handframed by me. I cut the mat and added all the backings to hang it and what not. I’m loving learning this new skill.