Elegant Warrior Sailor Venus

Happy Birthday Minako!!!

I decided pretty much last minute (i.e. today) to enter *DarkZephyrMoon's Sailor Venus contest. This is for the redesign category. Just fun; felt like drawing Venus since it is her birthday, after all.

I kinda see this as a form for Venus somewhere around the Silver Millennium. Mostly, I just wanted to design a (somewhat) more practical fuku. And armor's fun to draw.

There needs to be more art of Venus with the Seiken.

Sakura + staedler ink, prismacolor and copic markers on Bristol Board

Pose is this one:
from =SenshiStock