Puella Magi Madoka Magica Art Book

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica Setting Documents Collection (Art Book)

Released on June 28, 2011, this collection is 64 pages of drawings, notes, guidelines and other background material on the anime. [1]

Homura

みつあみメガネほむら - braided bespectacled Homura
通常はリボン - regular time there is ribbon
マホー少女時 - in mahou shoujo time
毛先カタク - the tip of hair looks hard
ハイシイト - thin frame (?)
メガネ eyeglasses
つり目 - slanted eyes
ひかえめに - moderately

Madoka Guidelines on Expressions

こちらの表現は、どーしても必要な局面以外は避けて下さい - the following expressions, please try to avoid as much as possible except in necessary circumstances
ダメージの表現でよくあるタッチ - touches that are common in expressions of damage
なぞの白い玉 - mysterious white bubbles
巨大なアセ - huge sweat drop
空に浮くしたじき - mat flowing in sky
ダメージは出来るはんいで具体的に表現する - express damages in concrete way within reasonable scope

Mami's Musket

マミの銃　マジカルマスケット銃 - Mami's gun Magical Musket
プレートＵＰ - Plate Up
通常な省略 - Standard omissions
コックと皿の結晶は色トレス - "color trace" for cock and flash pen crystal
対比 - comparison
水晶　色トレス　(フリントと火蓋)- crystal "color trace" (flint and touch-hole cover)
1 マミの掃討用の銃 - Mami's gun for mop-up actions
サーペンタイルタイプ - serpentine type
銃口 - muzzle

Homura's Shield

ほむらの盾 - Homura's shield
時間静止逆行モードこちらで - Time freeze/backward mode is here
通常時　カバー有　- Usually it has cover
カバーＵＰ - uncovered
真横 - side look
ムーブメント(中央部分） - movement (central part)
砂時計(上下の球体）ＵＰ時別紙 - sand-timer (sphere at top and bottom) zoom-up on separate sheet
裏 - the other side
ほむらとの対比 - comparison with Homura
横 - side

Gertrud's Grief Seed

バラ園の魔女　グリーフシード　前 - Witch of the Rose Garden - Grief Seed - Front
ケルトルート- Gertrud
影無し - no shadow
大きさソウルジェムこのくらい - size of Soul Gem is like this
うしろ - back
ソウルジェム - Soul Gem
フレーム残しつつ - while the frame remains as it is
メキメキと割れながら縮む - contracts as it rapidly breaks apart
一気にズボッと - In one go it pops and
棒部分生えてくる - the rod-shaped parts grow
（貫通するみたいに）- (like they go through it)

Gallery

Artbook Madoka Drawing 7.jpg
色トレス means "color trace". In animation it's used for color pencil (pencil tool in CG) to trace the black outline so as to soften the shape and make it blur into the surrounding better.