In each Sailormoon Artbook, at the very end all the pictures in that volume At then end of each of the Sailormoon Artbooks, Takeuchi Naoko writes little notes about each drawing. After looking at the translations of some of them, I though they were pretty intresting and
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- Original Picture Collection cover.
- 519 X 721 mm.
- Media: Color ink, color spray, poster color.
- Paper: Rough BB Kent.
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I drew this picture with my favorite colors and the easiest methods. It's very like me, and I like it very much. I'm very happy I was able to draw it packing in just the things I like. The main lines are a nouvelle cool gray, with a slightly blue ink. Since I was in high school, I've really liked this ink.
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- 395 X 275 mm.
- Drawn for use in the Picture Collection.
- Media: Color ink, color spray.
- Paper: Thick tracing paper, lace paper, Muromachi snow-white
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At the international book fair event at the beginning of 1994, my original pictures were displayed next to those of the esteemed Yamato Waki-sensei. Yamato-sensei's color pictures then were drawn on thick tracing paper, so I wanted to try it as well, and I drew this on thick trace. I'm worried about the colors coming out nicely. The color pictures of Yamato-sensei's I saw then were so beautiful they made my head spin.
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- 379 X 270 mm.
- Drawn for use in the Picture Collection.
- Media: Color ink.
- Paper: Rough BB Kent.
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When I speak of Ami-chan, of course I get an image of her in the water. Even though this is the first time I've drawn a color picture of Ami-chan like this, it feels familiar. Maybe because the TV and magazines and fans have drawn many more pictures of Ami-chan like this than I have. A bathing suit really looks good on Ami-chan.
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- 395 X 274 mm.
- Drawn for use in the Picture Collection.
- Media: Watercolor pencil, color ink, poster color.
- Paper: Feather waltz (faux). .
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This color picture of Rei-chan is very appealing to me. When I thought I'd draw Rei-chan not being a soldier, the image clearly gushed forth, and in the blink of an eye I was able to make this picture. Inside of me, this was the very first, and still unchanged, image of Rei-chan.
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- 372 X 275 mm.
- Drawn for use in the Picture Collection.
- Media: Color ink, color spray.
- Paper: Canson.
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Mako-chan loves cooking, so I wanted to make her with the appearance of a cook. I wonder who she made the cake for.
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- 390 X 274 mm.
- Drawn for use in the Picture Collection.
- Media: Color ink, color tone.
- Paper: Paradise.
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I wanted to draw the cheerful Minako-chan, and I put her on a bicycle. Drawing it was so fun, I finished it in the blink of an eye. Taking Artemis and Luna, on a Sunday afternoon with good weather, she's going to Omotesandou in Harajuku. I guess that's the feeling.
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- 383 X 255 mm.
- Front cover of the February 1992 Nakayoshi.
- Media: Color ink, color tone.
- Paper: Canson.
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This was a color picture for use as the cover of the first issue of Nakayoshi with the serial. At first, I planned to have Sailor Moon's hair be yellow before transforming, and silver after transforming. But I was told by the editor in charge of the front cover, "Silver is plain for use on the cover. Yellow is definitely more flashy, and it will stand out." Since then I feel my way of thinking about my color pictures has completely changed.
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- 384 X 270 mm.
- Unpublished work.
- Media: Color ink, color spray.
- Paper: Fine BB Kent.
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Actually, I drew this color picture to be used in the first comic volume, and I'm very pleased with it. However, one of my male friends saw it when he came to visit, and simply said, "Usagi-chan's face is different." It was a big shock. The cover of the first volume is a copy of this one.
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- 360 X 511 mm.
- Title page of the February 1992 Nakayoshi.
- Media: Color ink, color tone.
- Paper: Fine BB Kent.
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This is a color picture from the title page of the first issue with the serial. I was still wavering on Sailor Moon's costume design, and drew this while worrying about it. I waver a lot. At first I was thinking about giving her a cloak and a boomerang. The picture and design are really completely different from now. But since this is the color picture from the title page of the first issue with the serial, which should be commemorated, it's a work very, very deep with memories.
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