Sailor Jupiter.
In 2014, I started a series of portraits of reversions of nine of the sailors from Sailor Moon. Usually with a song in mind. My goal was to make them using just as few and strong colors as possible from begining to end, with a specific render, just to see what could come out of it.
I used to not mind spending a month with the same piece but it's been five years and my priorities have changed.
The first six were practically the same character: white, normatively beautiful girl or woman, posing.
But see, I don't enjoy portraits like those anymore. It doesn't resonate with me. It's boring, the media is filled with that.
I changed the references for the ones that I have left, but the pressure I have put on myself to follow a specific method for the illustrations is taking away all the fun it used to be.
I wanted this to be an exercise to get better, but my idea of "better" has changed, what I want to do with my work, has changed significantly. Fortunately.
I have three left. We'll see how that goes.
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