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Act 8 Future, Jubilee Ball
Part 2
It took me five hours to draw the ballroom. So. Much. Line. Art! The ballroom is based on the Galleria Grande in the Palace of Venaria in Piedmont, Italy. I saw a picture of the Galleria Grande on my Tumblr feed and my brain decided that this is what the Crystal Palace ballroom would look like (sans the chandeliers; those are purely my own addition as the Palace of Venaria has frescoes instead of chandeliers on the ceiling).
I decided to use Sailor Moon's mask from the first couple of chapters of the manga because I like the wing-like design of the mask and thought it was a bit of a shame we didn't see more of it except as part of Sailor V's costume. As for why Chibs is wearing her mother's gown, she's been shown wearing this gown in at least two official art works (one from the fifth official art book, the other is the cover of volume 12 from the shinsouban edition of the manga which shows NQS, Chibi Usa, and Chibi Chibi all in the same type of gown). This makes me think that by the time of Crystal Tokyo the moon princess gown has become the official outfit of the female members of the White Moon family and serves as an obvious indication of the wearer’s background to others (the crescent moon mark obviously also fits this role, but it’s more discrete while clothing, by their nature, is a more prominent sign of one’s status). Chibs normally wears her own pink gown around the palace (i.e. it’s her “casual” gown), but for formal events like the Jubilee Ball she wears the formal wear that reflects her lineage.
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Part 2
It took me five hours to draw the ballroom. So. Much. Line. Art! The ballroom is based on the Galleria Grande in the Palace of Venaria in Piedmont, Italy. I saw a picture of the Galleria Grande on my Tumblr feed and my brain decided that this is what the Crystal Palace ballroom would look like (sans the chandeliers; those are purely my own addition as the Palace of Venaria has frescoes instead of chandeliers on the ceiling).
I decided to use Sailor Moon's mask from the first couple of chapters of the manga because I like the wing-like design of the mask and thought it was a bit of a shame we didn't see more of it except as part of Sailor V's costume. As for why Chibs is wearing her mother's gown, she's been shown wearing this gown in at least two official art works (one from the fifth official art book, the other is the cover of volume 12 from the shinsouban edition of the manga which shows NQS, Chibi Usa, and Chibi Chibi all in the same type of gown). This makes me think that by the time of Crystal Tokyo the moon princess gown has become the official outfit of the female members of the White Moon family and serves as an obvious indication of the wearer’s background to others (the crescent moon mark obviously also fits this role, but it’s more discrete while clothing, by their nature, is a more prominent sign of one’s status). Chibs normally wears her own pink gown around the palace (i.e. it’s her “casual” gown), but for formal events like the Jubilee Ball she wears the formal wear that reflects her lineage.
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Wait, wait, wait a minute...
"It took me five hours to draw the ballroom."
>.0
Man, if that was me, it would have taken five MONTHS! That is just so. Much. Friggin. Detail. Even using digital tool to help duplicate and straighten out parts of it... ugghhhh. See, this is where Takeuchi-sensei usually hires someone ELSE to do some of the artwork, lol.
And where I go online looking for freebies, because no, just no. XD
"It took me five hours to draw the ballroom."
>.0
Man, if that was me, it would have taken five MONTHS! That is just so. Much. Friggin. Detail. Even using digital tool to help duplicate and straighten out parts of it... ugghhhh. See, this is where Takeuchi-sensei usually hires someone ELSE to do some of the artwork, lol.
And where I go online looking for freebies, because no, just no. XD