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[Kasai Oni]

You know, Foxtrot had always been one of my favorite comic strips (after Calvin and Hobbes, of course), and this strip became even funnier after I became a brony....

[Fros7bite]

[Sesambrot]

Sporkosophy, on 20 August 2012 - 02:53 PM, said:

Someone call for creepy?
...

yeah, that was me! nice one, thanks! ^^

[Samaritan]

Hon. Mechwarriors;

I have enjoyed the pschological allegory of Fallout Equestria: New Horizons. A Crusading Poni-ism view of the nature of pony in every disastrous shade of grey. One of the characters that left an impression was an Alicorn by the name of Lacunae.

The characters are well crafted with room to grow, and wilt. Here we discover one of the Axioms of the Wasteland, Alicorns are not to be trifled with lightly.




With great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, being the product of a spiritual quisinart and subject to the capricious whims of an insecure "goddess" seem to me to be too high a price to pay for relative security in the wasteland.


Here is a song that I thank sums up the monstrous circumstances of an Alicorn's internal dialouge.



If you have a hard to count to number of moments free, do your self a favor and read Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons. Just bear in mind that imperfect good and willfull evil are amptly demonstrated to be insufficient to the task of redemming the circumstances of the world of Equestria.



Respectfully

Samaritan

Edited by Samaritan, 21 August 2012 - 09:14 AM.

[wanderer]

As this has both giant robots AND Fluttershy, I believe you should find it most satisfactory:

https://www.youtube....h?v=nzpChbJfrCY

Edited by wanderer, 21 August 2012 - 09:27 AM.

[Kasai Oni]

[Rainbow Dash Best Pony]

Sandvich is beter the anything num num

[Watchit]

Tyzh, on 20 August 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

But you've been liking posts! I've been watching~

Stalker!

[William Petersen]

Who watches the Watchit?

Tyzh, apparently.

[Kasai Oni]

Support your lesser-known artists! http://aesas-sketchbook.tumblr.com/

[Protection]

Rainbow Dash Best Pony, on 21 August 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

Sandvich is beter the anything num num

Why not both? At the same time.

[Proxus571]

I couldn't sleep the other night so I took a pic I think I found in this thread:

and used my terrible photoshop skills to color it:


Could be much better but I was half asleep and I have been too busy to spruce it up.

don't judge me

also:

Edited by Proxus571, 21 August 2012 - 07:41 PM.

[Kasai Oni]

Keep up the good work Proxus! The true key to getting better at something (art, anything really) is knowing what you can improve and spending the time to get better! (Basically, do the exact opposite of what I do! )

I wish I could do stuff as cool as that guy I linked earlier...

[Sesambrot]

Kasai Oni, on 21 August 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:

Keep up the good work Proxus! The true key to getting better at something (art, anything really) is knowing what you can improve and spending the time to get better! (Basically, do the exact opposite of what I do! )

I wish I could do stuff as cool as that guy I linked earlier...

Well, first of all you gotta get feedback from others, looking at and analyzing your own art will only get you so far... Unless you're overly critical you're going to miss a lot of things... Aside of that, it's all a matter of practice!

That said, some advice for you Proxus:
-use layers and don't be afraid to use lots of them!
In this case your life would've been easier if you had used a separate layer for each of the following;
Background (maybe even separate for sky and ground), Body (Head, Wings, Legs etc.), Coat, Guns, *Details*
-especially when using layers, don't be afraid to color over the lines. You can easily correct/erase any mistakes you make and if it's on a BG-layer, the colors in the foreground will cover that anyway

btw, int the pic she's firing the gun in her right hoof, you forgot to color the muzzle-flash... ^^

I'm assuming you didn't use a tablet for this, but even so, using multiple layers would have helped you to avoid those white edges.
The most tricky part about digital art is actually to leave behind what you're used to from drawing on paper. Drawing with tools like PS or GIMP or even more simplistic tools gets rid of a lot of restrictions you have for non-digital art. The ability to use layers for example enables you to draw backgrounds without having to draw them around what ever is in the foreground. You can also erase any color without leaving any trace of it. Just to point out two advantages that came to my mind...
It seems a lot of artists that have been into for a while forget about those differences as it is quite natural to work that way on a computer, but I feel most newcomers need to be made aware of that because they simply didn't learn it that way...


However, I got some new artwork to share myself... ^^
The following is for a request I got on dA recently, it's just part of it though, I'm going to do more with it!


Try to guess how many layers the final image has! (Note: it used to be a lot more when I was actually working on it, I combined a couple of them where it made sense)

Actually, you know what?! If you guess right, you may request me to draw a pony for your. ^^

Edited by Sesambrot, 22 August 2012 - 02:51 AM.

[Ian Moon]

I don't know...21?

I do know that there end up being a lot of layers on things, I've just never spent enough time in photoshop or the like to get a better guess.

[Sesambrot]

May even have had more at some point when I worked on it, lots of temporary layers with very small stuff I usually merge onto other layers later... I should start counting how many layers I use total, probably a ridiculous number... xD

Anyway, it's not 21...
Note: it's not 1 either, I don't merge each and every layer, I usually keep certain things separate.

[Memo The Rat]

Hrm. I ended up with 18 for the one I did. However, it's not very good and only looks decent cause I ended up scaling it down to avatar size (150x150)

[Kasai Oni]

Hrmmm...let's see, if it were me, I would have done...

Outline
Shading
Mane/Tail
Eyes
Necklace
Wing
Cutie Mark
Body
Background

So unless you have individual layers for each section of shading (I usually merge all my shading layers), I'm gonna guess...9 layers? Maybe a few more if you have the horn and ear on individual layers actually...

Edited for derped grammar

Edited by Kasai Oni, 22 August 2012 - 02:55 PM.

[Sesambrot]

Kasai Oni, on 22 August 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

Hrmmm...let's see, if it were me, I would have done...

Outline
Shading
Mane/Tail
Eyes
Necklace
Wing
Cutie Mark
Body
Background

So unless you have individual layers for each section of shading (I usually merge all my shading layers), I'm gonna guess...9 layers? Maybe a few more if you have the horn and ear on individual layers actually...

Edited for derped grammar

Spot on actually!
Even the organisation of the layers would have been mostly correct if I hadn't modified it after it was basically finished...
So anything you'd have me draw for you? (No fancy backgrounds though, not really experienced with those, and they take forever)

Got another picture to post btw...

[Proxus571]

yeah like I said, I couldn't sleep and I never really finished the image or had time to spruce it up so there's a lot of color bleed or lack there of where the white sections come through. I was having a lot of trouble isolating the muzzle flash using the selection tools and hand painting was coming out awful. I think that might have something to do with coloring with mouse/keyboard on a desktop haha. Thanks for all the tips though guys I really appreciate it I can't draw whatsoever but I do enjoy using my digital crayons every once in awhile .

oh and here's my layers list :

Edited by Proxus571, 22 August 2012 - 04:57 PM.