Edwinhuang - Sailor Mars colored (Patreon)

 It  has been a while since I uploaded anything new and for that I apologize  everyone.  But here we have the next in the Sailor Moon series; Sailor  Mars that was drawn up by @edwinhuang

Here’s the version they did: Sailor Mars (3 of 5) by Edwinhuang

When  I started this particular piece I knew that it was going to be a hard  one.  Mainly because of two aspects.  The first was the kanji characters  on Mars’ paper charm.  I had a feeling those would be hard to come by.   The second would be putting in the flames because there are two ways to  do that.  One way is to make them photo-realistic, which often has a  problem because they tend to look just copied and pasted in.  Secondly  they tend to be jarring in their appearance.  The other way is to  essentially paint them in which I have always had the hardest time  doing.  

In the end after coloring Sailor Mars, I went with  using a filter that Photoshop has called “render flame” which, I think  adds a nice effect with the way the flames curve and bend. 
Finally,  for the kanji for the Paper Charm, what I had to do was essentially  find a picture of the kanji itself and do a little warping so that it  matches the shape of the paper.  

As for the background, much  like Sailor Mercury and Moon, I tried to re-render the transformation  backgrounds from the show.  Although, in the case of Mars here, a lot of  her was blocking the background.  So you can’t really see the space  aspects that I put in, like the stars and such.  Along with the Sailor  Mars logo that I put in, just for good measure. 
My thanks again to Edwinhuang for allowing me to make my own colored versions of these senshi.

Stay tuned for more, my loyal watchers and followers.

© Sailor Mars/Rei Hino - Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi   

(sarcasm): Thank you, patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork here.