While I don't dislike the original form, yours does look very nice! (And you did a great job on the face, anatomy/proportions, and general style.)
I don't mind the 'bubble gum' shoulders, but I always did find them funny and incongruous (they obscure the shape of the shoulder, don't look like armor, and she's not wearing any other pink. They'd suit Chibi-Usa better, I think). One of the few things I like best about the SuperS 'Crisis' design are those three-part seethrough shoulderpads, they look like glassy armor. But the bare look has advantages too.
I also notice a couple more details than you mentioned- the gold piping along the torso (I didn't realize that was in the original sketches), and made the belt a bit thicker on the sides. Both look cool! I especially like the thicker belt, it feels more defined than the original thin ribbon.
MariaTenebre said:
I would probably like it more if she had actual wings. I always felt that the Eternal form would be beautiful if instead of the wings being a bow
Bow?? Those weren't real wings?!?!
I thought she just had them and never tried using them until she was in her (unnamed?) 'final'/suitless form, I didn't think she had to wait until then to grow actual wings. I mean, don't a bunch of feathers shoot out during her transformation scene in the anime?
Though they did always seem kind of stiff. Hmm. I thought that was just corner-cutting animation though.
DREWdesu said:
though I think it was an implied rule in the manga that Mercury and Pluto didn't have shoulder cuffs in their base form because they were considered defensive Sailor Soldiers instead of offensive Sailor Soldiers
Hmm, I could see that. That doesn't seem inconsistent with what they actually did, but, it does seem logically backward (having
less armor for the defensive roles). Not that Mercury and Ami do a lot of "tanking" anyway, I don't think that comes up in the Manga and in the anime that's more Jupiter's thing. (But wait a minute, Ami
does tank hits from Nehelennia in Sailor Stars when she's doing the computer studying thing... but that Ami has shoulderpads! Maybe they
do make a difference
)