"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
I decided to make another attempt at this Usagi painting that I did back in 2021.
Looking back at it again, it looks completely different. I actually had this painting “finished” a couple of weeks ago. But after coming back to it I noticed various areas that I could continue to work on. It’s always great to come back to it with fresh eyes.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Here’s a quick painting of Rei Hino in the rain. It has been wanting to rain where I live, but the rain keeps going over us… At least the temps have gone down a bit.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Happy Halloween everyone! Although by this time it’s pretty much already over. Hopefully you guys had a great time. Today also marks the last day of Inktober. I got out somewhat early today from my other job so I decided to make multiple drawings for this special day. I was having a hard time deciding who to draw for the last day and just decided that there was no reason to just choose one. So I made three instead. I was actually going to make five… but that was pushing it.
For today, I decided to draw Karin Miyamoto in a maid outfit (super cute), Airi in her Sailor Moon cosplay (I’ve been craving to draw her for such a long time now) and Momochi in the outfit she used for the 2016 NTV Halloween Live event.
Didn’t have time to hatch or ink them today but I at least managed to finish the line art.
In terms of Inktober anyway, see you guys next year. Hopefully you guys enjoyed my drawings this month.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
While looking at references for the drawings I have done so far, I felt like drawing some Sailor Moon art since the fashion there is so iconic. This time I decided to draw the titular character. I wanted a warm outfit so I combined different clothes from my references. I liked the original pose of the model arranging her hair, but since Usagi has a very peculiar style I had to accommodate for that.
I was going to have Usagi’s eyes partially opened but I liked the way they looked closed, it gives her a serene thoughtful aesthetic.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Main channel version:
Extended version:
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’ve been focusing on just trying to work with color, but it seems that my poses have been a little to stiff and static. This was brought to my attention by my brother. With that in mind, I think it might not be a bad idea to work with poses that are in motion or at the very least interesting. I’ve been having the urge to paint Rei Hino for some time now. So last Friday I finally decided to do so. It snowed quite hard so I chose an outfit fit the weather. Funnily enough, today it started snowing again. I also wanted to try out a more vibrant coloring style for the hair because I really liked the way it looked on this painting of Sayu I made and a reference of Sailor Saturn that was painted by @666pigeon
Pose reference: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/391039180149386519/
Outfit reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/BdE3GOej4iL/
Rei Hino reference: http://www.pianeta-sailor-moon.it/00000mars11.gif
Color reference: https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/531143349785801254/
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
My brother told me about this redraw challenge for Sailor Moon. It seems that people are mainly focusing on on a certain screenshot. But I wanted to change it up a bit, which others have done as well. I would say that Rei is my favourite of the sailor members so I wanted to paint her. I really like the aesthetic of her in the pink overalls so I chose that scene. Background wasn’t too much of a problem but I painting Rei did take a good amount of time. Though since I wasn’t using other references as I painted her had me processing every step.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
This was done in August 11.
These past years I have been listening to a lot of Vaporwave and that led me to City Pop. One of the cool things to come out of it aside from the awesome music is of course the AESTHETIC art. After looking at it for so long I wanted to give it a try myself. It’s kinda hard to know what to put and what not to. Then there is the whole idea of the colors. The main color schemes seem to be turquoise and either magenta or hot pink.
I started with the bust of Sailor Moon since busts are one of the most iconic images of Vaporwave. It was much easier to do than I though. But I guess thats to be expected since I am working with one color.
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These were used either as references or as overlays (that will soon become apparent).
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I had to erase the whole background just so that I could get the pause symbol.
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This is the VCR font, and I just erased and isolated the letters, numbers and symbols I needed.
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Didn’t really have an idea for what to use this Windows XP window for, but I figured I could do something fun with it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42869059930/in/dateposted-public/
So I went ahead in using the checkered pattern and the stars to make a background that looks like the midpoint section in the Sailor Moon episodes.
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Here I just filled the background with the base color before I incorporated the checkered design.
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I added a bit of a back shade? so that it would pop out a bit more from the background.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/43770787365/in/dateposted-public/
The moon was actually on the left side, but it just didn’t make sense when I eventually added Silver Millenium.
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This is the cityscape I used:
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Added Luna but always questioned if having her at that size was a good idea or not.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42869965820/in/dateposted-public/
This was the picture I used for the Silver Millenium.
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The plane:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44637618352/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/43770786415/in/dateposted-public/
The sail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/43968296094/in/dateposted-public/
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Using the reference above I painted Usagi’s wand.
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From here I wanted to sort of make the crystal of the wand shimmer.
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From here I used the Windows XP window and this screenshot of the Sailor V game played in the series:
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The kanji should read “moon warrior”.
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Do you guys know the importance of this date and time?
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It looked a bit too dark and had not enough blue so I decided to add it on the top.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42869959850/in/dateposted-public/
There are a couple of hidden surprises within it, I wonder if anyone will notice them?
That should be all for now.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Time spent: hours 8 minutes 03
Materials used: Sakura 0.7 mechanical pencil, Faber Castell Perfection 7056 pencil eraser, eraser,
Sakura Pigma Micron set Black,
Uniball Sigmo White, Black
Sakura Moonlight gellyroll: Yellow, Red pink, Orange
Copic Markers: Y11, Y15, Y17, Y21, Y26, Y28, YR04, YR09, YR68, R08, R27, R29, C1, C3, C5, C7, W1, W3, W5, W7, G21, G28, BG18, V01, V15, V17, 0, E00, 100
So we are now on the third Sailor senshi, two more to go. From what I have seen so far, Rei Hino is definitely my favorite one. What is interesting is that they changed her personality a lot on the original anime from the one in the manga which I find a bit weird. But from what I have seen so far, this one seems to be more like the manga Rei which is more to my liking. Here powers are cooler too, specially since she already had spiritual powers to begin with.
Now for the drawing. I wanted to change things a bit more for this one. I wanted Rei to be a bit more like a Yamato Nadeshiko. So I made sure to not add much indication of eyelashes. And also change the shape of the eyes a bit. And truthfully, it worked out. She came out even better than I expected. One thing that I did sort of messed up are her eyes. I made them purple, but I was reading that they turned red when she was in her senshi form. But oh well. I really like her purple eyes. They blend really well with her long dark hair.
What do you guys think?
-XERO
Time spent: 8 hours 59 minutes
Materials used: Sakura 0.7 mechanical pencil, Faber Castell Perfection 7056 pencil eraser, eraser,
Sakura Pigma Micron set Black,
Sakura gellyroll White,
Sakura Moonlight gellyroll: Light green, Dark purple, Blue, Yellow
Reeves Water Colours 18 set: Viridian hue, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine,
Copic Markers: 0, E00, C1 C3, C5, C7, W1, W3, W5, W7, YR00, Y11, Y17, Y28, V01, G21, G24, G28, BG10, BG78, B0000, B01, B05, B21, B24, B26, B28, B32, B34, B39, B45, B69, B97
Sharpie Oil Based PAINT White Fine Point
And so we continue with the Sailor Senshi series. This time it is the second member to be revealed in the series Sailor Mercury, real name Ami Mizuno. So far, I like her more than Sailor Moon. Though she hasn’t really made a strong impression on me either. On another note, I still don’t quite understand what Sailor Moon’s attacks are based on, most likely they are just random attacks that Naoko Takeuchi thought were cool. But for all other members, it seems like they have an elemental affinity tied to them. For Ami Mizuno it is water, so since the start I wanted to incorporate that. In the end I was thinking about it being either ripples or waves. I never really made up my mind before starting the drawing, but in the end I just combined them together. And surprisingly, it worked quite well together.
In any case, I hope you guys enjoy and learn from this video.
-XERO
Time spent: 7 hours 56 minutes
Materials used: Sakura 0.7 mechanical pencil, Faber Castell Perfection 7056 pencil eraser, eraser,
Sakura Pigma Micron set Sepia +Sakura Pigma Micron set Black, Sakura gellyroll White, Sakura Moonlight gellyroll: Yellow, light pink, Dark Pink,
Reeves Water Colours 18 set: Lemon Yellow, Medium Yellow, Ivory Black, Phthalo Blue, Violet, Ultramarine,
Copic Markers: R08, R27, R29, Y11, Y17, Y21, Y28, B01, B05, B34, B45, B97, C1, C3, W1, W2, V01, G21, G24, G28.
There was no video last week because I bought a new scanner, but it would not arrive till after a couple of days later after I usually upload a video. So I decided to hold it back and wait for the scanner to arrive. It is a large scanner that allows me to scan areas up to A3 (which is a scanner I have been looking for for quite some time). Now I can get a good quality copy of my artwork here at home.
In any case, for this weeks drawing, we will be doing Sailor Moon. I heard the new series would be broadcasted so I decided to give it a chance and see what it was about. I know I saw some episodes when I was younger but I only saw a few and don’t really remember much. So I said, what the heck, lets give it a chance. After all, I kept hearing good things from both females and males about it. My overall impressions at this point? Personally the old animation looks more appealing to me, but it definitely doesn’t look bad at all. I hear this series is following the manga better so I will see this through to the end to see how good it is. I gotta say, Usagi is rather dumb… But I guess that’s a common feature among Shoujo heroines (as well as Shonen heroes of course). We’ll see how this goes.
-XERO
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