This is for 's contest, where we took any of the senshi and gave them odangos (couldn't be Moon, Chibiusa, etc etc). We could create our own odango hairstyle but one had to be at least the normal odangos.

I chose Pluto and Saturn, my two favorite senshi aside from Moon. Saturn has a normal odango hairstyle whereas Pluto's is different. I chose to model it after the planetary zodiac sign for Pluto.

I think my marker coloring turned out pretty good, especially the actual piece. My scanner ate the colors up again. Levels and curves in photoshop only do so much. I gave it a fairly simple textured background after fighting with more complex backgrounds and gave up on this one. Saturn looks fake, Pluto barely looks any better.

I am not really happy with this colored. My sketch looks tons better. I also haven't drawn anything Sailormoon in a long while, so it is interesting to see how my style developed in relation since I started drawing people based on Sailormoon/DBZ style stuff.

Anyway, overall I am not pleased with how this turned out, but I wanted to get my contest submission in. Feel free to point out where all I failed at so I can fix it later and get better!

Art © Julie Love 2009
Characters © Naoko Takeuchi



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