fanart_recs | Entries tagged with fandom: sailor moon

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The various Sailor Senshi in their princess forms, the Black Lady, and ancient Greek gods from Disney’s Hercules (film and tv spinoff)
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: tabrisxhawk on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: Such a fun crossover idea, and well-executed. The character designs/styles from the two different canons are integrated well, and with a lot of thought put into how the interactions might feel. (I especially love Princess Pluto’s wry look at Hades, while Cerberus chews on her staff.)
Links:
Princess Mercury and Disney Hermes
Princess Mars and Disney Ares
Princess Jupiter and Disney Zeus
Princess Venus and Disney Aphrodite
Princess Serenity and Disney Artemis
Princess Neptune and Disney Poseidon
Princess Uranus and Disney Gaia
Princess Saturn and Disney Kronos
Princess Pluto and Disney Hades
Princess Small Lady Usagi, Black Lady and Disney Hecate

I've had a lot of fun being your Sailor Moon reccer this month! Perhaps I'll be back later this year; there's plenty more where these came from. ;)

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Tomoe Hotaru, Kaiou Michiru, Tenoh Haruka and Meiou Setsuna
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: TwinklePowderySnow on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: It’s a simple, clichéd premise for a comic strip, but the artist’s gorgeous, expressive style and grasp of the characters really makes it for me. I am an absolute sucker for portrayals of the post-season S Outer Senshi as a family, and this artist’s take on that dynamic really works for me! I love the way Michiru is CLEARLY (but so cooly) setting Haruka up, and Setsuna’s immediate grasp of the situation (and exasperation with it), and adorable big-eyed Hotaru just … waiting for someone to answer her question already! Also the costuming choices are great, and I love the overall simple coloring and shiny shiny hair.
Link: The Birds and the Bees

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Mask
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Watercolors, crayons
Artist Website/Gallery: PaddyMoonshade on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: It’s a beautifully composed group shot, with thoughtful, thematic (50s-inspired) costuming tailored to each individual character. The body language and small groupings/interactions are equally individualized and delightful, and the asymmetrical layout effective and appealing. And the use of traditional media! It’s pretty and has that dreamy watercolor quality.
Link: Sailor Wedding

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Princesses Mercury, Serenity, Mars, Venus and Jupiter
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: Kayla-Miller.com
Why this piece is awesome: I mean, first of all, the style is just adorable, from the expressive, cartoony characters to the equally, delightfully cartoony game designs and cheerful color scheme! More than anything, though, I love that this artist chose to give us a glimpse of life in the Silver Millennium beyond standing gracefully amongst pillars or staring wistfully at the Earth; one that makes the past lives of these five characters feel like the same people we get to know in the show's present. (Cute individual dress designs, too!)
Link: Silver Millennium Arcade

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Inner Senshi
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: RayOcampo on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: I have a huge weakness for senshi transformation sequences. There are a lot of great fanart interpretations of them, but I love how kinetic and joyful this one is. It sticks close to the original, but breathes its own style and life in as well. Captures some of the exhilaration I remember feeling when I was a teenager watching Sailor Moon for the first time!
Link: Make Up!

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Tenoh Haruka
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: Jessica Kholinne on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: I hardly know where to start! Haruka’s cocky, almost bored, smoldering expression and body language are just … unf. The textures and color palette are gorgeous, and the car is super sexy. I would totally hang this poster over my bed and gaze dreamily at it!
Link: Sky High Mountain Breeze

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Sailor Moon (Tsukino Usagi)
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: Jess Fink.com
Why this piece is awesome: It’s an affectionate, deeply effective parody of what you might call the leveling-up trope. It makes me giggle every time I see it. SO MANY RUFFLES AND RIBBONS. ULTIMATE.
Link: Sailor Moon’s ULTIMATE final form

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Inner Senshi
Content Notes/Warnings: I guess … mild undergarment warning? It’s not sexualized, but this is art of a bunch of teen girls getting dressed, so a couple of them aren't fully clothed.
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: ivy-alive on deviantArt
Why this piece is awesome: Much as I do, unabashedly, love the senshi transformation sequences, I’m always extra charmed by art that imagines them getting dressed more “normally,” or generally lends more reality/texture/draping etc to senshi fukus. I also love the warm, intimate feel of this piece; the lighting, and the way the characters are mostly facing away from the viewer, engaged in a mundane task instead of posing. It reminds me, thematically at least, of some of Degas’ works, depicting backstage and behind-the-scenes tableaus among ballerinas of his day.
Link: Behind The Scenes Sailors

Happy February, folks! I'll be reccing Sailor Moon fanart this month. I hope you enjoy!

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ami
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery:

cobyfrog

Why this piece is awesome: The artist wanted to draw Ami in some nice casual wear, to make up for all the terrible outfits she ends up in during the '90s anime. And succeeds! The outfit looks so cozy (and she looks so cute in it). I want one.

Link: Sailor Moon: Academia

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ami, Makoto, Usagi, Rei, Minako
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery:

ratgirlstudios

Why this piece is awesome: Beautiful steampunk uniform designs with a wealth of perfect little touches. Mercury with her multi-lens eyepiece, Venus with her steel chain, Jupiter with her jewel-toned bustier...the individual personalities all shine through.

Link: Steampunk Sailor Senshi

reflectedeve

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Inner Senshi
Content Notes/Warnings: n/a
Medium: digital
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:

cuppa-tan

Why this piece is awesome: Starting off my Sailor Moon recs with a bang! I love "bad girl/girl gang" takes on the Sailor Senshi, because it celebrates in a different way something that I think is very important to the show's legacy ... that whole sense of empowerment and inspiration that a generation of girls and women (among others) got from such teen-girl-centric power fantasies. Part of what's important in the manga/anime/etc is the fact that in many ways the Senshi are deeply, unabashedly "girly" ... but that makes more blatant homages all the more enjoyable for me. Anyway, I'm rambling, but ... it's so in-your-face and FUN. :) The messy cartoony style and bold colors suit it nicely, and I love their faces.

Link: http://cuppa-tan.deviantart.com/art/The-Sailor-Punkz-318198285

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Serenity, Madoka
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery:

Ruriko-sama

Why this piece is awesome: I always love Madoka/other-magical-girl crossovers, and this piece is suitably epic for the two characters involved. Beautiful, subtle rainbow of a color scheme, with Serenity's dress dissolving into light and Madoka's into stars.

Link: The Two Goddesses

erinptah

Fandom: Doctor Who, Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Judoon
Theme: Humor
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: Hawkstone @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: It has a serious, detailed drawing of a Judoon in a sailor fuku. Plus a couple of other doodles that play on these particular aliens' distinctive way of speaking.

Link: Judoon Cartoons

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Sailor Team + Asteroid Senshi
Theme: Humor
Medium: Traditional art (colored pencil?)
Artist Website/Gallery: UndeadPrincess @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: The downgrade of Pluto by the IAC triggered a tidal wave of jokes about poor Sailor Pluto's fate. This one gets bonus points for incorporating the corresponding shakeup in the Asteroid Senshi, with nice clean linework and some adorably expressive poses for the characters.

Link: Pluto's Demotion

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Eudial, Uranus, Neptune, Setsuna, Usagi, Tomoe, Tuxedo Mask, Chibi-Moon
Theme: Humor
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: Kymoon @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: It's a great imitation of the style of the series, presenting the "set" from episodes 110-111 (in which the Talismans are revealed) if the characters were actors putting it together in a studio.

Link: The Making Of

erinptah

Fandom: Doctor Who, Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Eleven
Theme: Humor
Medium: Digital art; comic
Artist Website/Gallery: darthfilart @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: Detailed series of "screenshots" from the Doctor and his sonic screwdriver running through a lovely series of familiar poses. "It's called a transformation sequence. I transform now. Transformations are cool."

Link: Transformations are Cool!

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Kakyuu/Seiya, Taiki, Yaten
Medium: Traditional painting (watercolor?)
Artist Website/Gallery: iiyalovestobite @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: Cute and ridiculous. I like this take on Seiya/Kaykuu, and love the unimpressed expression of the two in the background.

Link: WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Haruka/Michiru
Medium: Cosplay
Artist Website/Gallery: Vaishravana @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: Classy Michiru in a gorgeous wig, Haruka getting her bishounen on, in an amazing seaside setting.

Link: Haruka Tenoh and Michiru Kaioh

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Lethe/Mnemosyne
Medium: Cosplay
Artist Website/Gallery: Shiru-Mahoono @ dA

Why this piece is awesome: Two manga-only characters with a sweet but underappreciated relationship get their day in the sun. Or, the sunset. A great shot, beautifully focused.

Link: Together forever

erinptah

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Super Sailor Moon
Medium: Ink on paper
Theme: Black & White
Artist Website/Gallery: Peegees

Why this piece is awesome: Amazing seascape and cliffside, an illustration like an old-fashioned woodcut. Plus our heroine, rendered to fit in. One of the most honestly unique styles I've ever seen a piece of fanart take on.

Link: Sailor Moon and the Tides