Cyber Mercury (Patreon)

Okay this was a lot of funsies. Again. Regular girl + Cyborg. Sailor Mercury is of course, not a cyborg in the show or the comic. Though the creator of Sailor Moon has said she originally planned on making Mercury a cyborg who gets broken a lot. That's not really the inspiration for this piece.

Basically, many many years ago now, a friend asked me to do a series of commissions with the Sailor Scouts as cyborgs. You can find the Mercury piece right here. When they asked me to revisit it, it sounded like a lot of fun. I always liked the idea of connecting Cyber Mercury's parts with a body made of magical water.

You can see how some of my techniques changed over the years. The big one I think is that, now a days I wouldn't make a piece like this so hard to see. I was trying to get across the look of a deep ocean in the original, and I think it worked to an extent. But it just makes Mercury harder to see. Nowadays I would use clearer elements especially in a simple pinup like this.

As for robot stuff. Well, I learned how to make the components make more visual sense as well. I'm not sure how those feet were supposed to work on the original Cyber Mercury design at all...