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Drawing Hotaru is the basic element before making any dolls or 3-D stuff. Why? Because Hotaru, if we forget about her incredible personality, her touching story and the power of her presence, Hotaru IS a drawing, at first. Here are some tips to draw Hotaru. I'm not an expert, nor a professional, I'm just 16 years old; it's just for fun!

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Let's start with the most important: the eyes.

If you are attentive, you'll discover that every senshi has their respective eye shape. The best examples are Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury. Mars is the roman god of war. Mars has to have an aggressive look. We can notice that her eyes are more aggressive-like than the others. They are half-round turned towards the middle.

The opposite is Sailor Mercury. We see in her eyes that Amy is the antonym of a bad girls. She has the shy-type eyes. These eyes are half-rounds turned towards the exterior.

In Hotaru, we see a mix of these two. Her eyes are more hexagonal. Her eyes are always half-closed. We have to play with those facts.

The eyes

I always start with the left eye (I'm left-handed)
1st Dram a stubbed out hexagon -fig. 1
2nd Erase 3 lines (see fig. 2)
3rd Draw a small line from the very left that goes towards the centre of the eye. - fig. 3
4th Draw the pupil: a round. - fig. 4
5th Don't forget those beautiful eyelashes fig. 5
6th Draw another line above the eye (the skin line), rounder than the hexagon. - fig. 6
7th Draw 2 lights reflects (a big circle and a small triangle) and colour the pupil (let the reflects white) - fig. 7
8th You have your left eye - do the opposite for the right eye. Calculate an eye size between the two. - Fig. 8

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The nose
The nose is not my strong point. I will teach two ways to draw it: my own the Japanese way.

Japanese
1st almost between the eyes, in the middle, start a line a finishes lower. - Fig. 9
2nd add a kind of triangle shape.  - Fig. 10
3rd you can let it like that or colour in black your shape of nose.

My own
1st When you want to draw Hotaru, from the front, you can simply add a funny half circle - Fig.11

A nose in a profile
1st A simple 2/3 triangle is perfect. - fig. 12

Note: If you want that your Hotaru looks younger, just rise the nose; draw it higher, nearer of the eyes.

Mouth

A mouth is so easy… Do it like you feel. For my drawings, I prefer a almost straight line than a very curved one. (fig. 13-14)

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The face

Sailor Moon faces are very similar. First, you have to know that pattern: the eyes are in the middle of the face (fig. 15). Trace a pale line where approximately you want your chin and calculate where her head should finish(fig. 16). Note: a younger Hotaru has a stubbed out face.

1st Start by the front, a little bit higher than the eyes. Draw down slowly and make a concave shape at the eyes level.
2nd Draw little bump for the cheek.
3rd At the level of the mouth, draw lines in your head like in the fig. 18
4th Trace the chin in the limits of the invisible lines.

The hair
Start with the quiff.

1st a little bit lower than your front pale line, draw two curved lines.
(fig. 19)
2nd Add more hairs to the quiff but never draw the lines higher than your two first curved lines. (fig. 20)
3rd Draw the skeleton of the hair (fig. 21)
4th Draw Hotaru's neck
5th Smooth the hair lines and draw some curved triangles in the lower part of the hair. (fig. 22)

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Usually, I stop here. But you may want to draw her ears

The ears

1st erase the concave shape at the level of the eyes
2nd draw the ears from the half; start from the quiff and go until you reach the face line.
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That's it, you have your Hotaru face!

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