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Published: 2018-07-04 05:43:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 73253; Favourites: 3152; Downloads: 0
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Some fine day when we go walkingWe'll take time for idle talking,
Sharing every feeling as we watch each other smile,
I'll hold your hand, you'll hold my hand
We'll say things we never had planned
Then we'll get to know each other in a little while
But for now, let me say I love you,
Later on there'll be time for so much more
But for now, meaning now and forever
Let me kiss you, my darling, then once more,
Once more
Cuppa Joe and Princess Iridescence in that cozy, comfortable stage of friendship and love, where, following hours of warm conversation, they find they don't need to say anything at all~
a style experiment i guessssss
last night a review of a bunch of those old scooby doo VHS movies popped up in my youtube recommended, how could i not click that shit
anyway that led down a loooooong trip down the rabbit hole of old, old cartoon nostalgia. I did have cartoon network as a kid, but i remember staying up late to watch all the old reruns (scooby doo, he-man and she-ra, those old tex avery shorts), and i have vague memories of Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony. All that and more I devoured on my late night youtube binge. Classic My Little Pony, Sailor Moon (not an 80's toon but I loved watching it in the morning before kindergarten), Jem and the Holograms (so cheesy, i fuckn love it), The Last Unicorn......and I wanted to try my hand at emulating that thin pencil lineart, VHS tape grain quality of retro toons. Black lineart seemed more common in the cartoons, but The Last Unicorn had pretty colored lineart and fuck it i wanted pretty sparkly unicornsssss, so colored it is
film grain borrowed from here: Film Grain
the background is pulled from here: derpibooru.org/1159841?q=g1%2C⦠(did i paint over the original mlp characters in the shot? u bet i did)
i didn't really have any dialogue in mind when i drew this, so if any of ya'll wanna take a crack at it, feel free
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There was an unexpectedly disheartened sigh when they sat and stared at the open and naked, untouched beauty of the nature before them.
Joe cast a sideways glance at Irie. She was beautiful, but a dangerous and complicated type of beautiful that only the rarest people could tap into. She stared at the pale sky around the sun as he studied her shrunken pupils, dilated from the light. He studied her shimmering coat and mane, and her curved horn. She looked like a glass doll. Quiet, and pristine.
"What's wrong?"
She didn't respond at first, for so long he wondered if she had even heard him speak.
"Don't you ever just wanna run away?"
He laughed softly, which sent a tinge of pain in her chest. Why was he laughing at her?
Joe shook his head, strands of warm brown hair falling to rest on his face.
"Yeah," He looked at her with an emotion in his green eyes that danced with hers. "Every damn day, princess."Β
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It looks straight out of a movie!! beautiful!
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Love this style, fits the characters well, and very nostalgic, felt like I've seen this as if it were a movie before, even though this is the first time ive seen it, very nice!
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I love this style so much, it's so gentle and nostalgic.
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This style does remind me of old cartoons and animated movies! I love it! <3
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Not really dialogue, but a spur of the moment:
The wind was softly blowing across the fields, as the pair made their way through the knee-high grass. The birds fell silent as the two started talking, as if wanting to hear the things they would say. Joe took a deep breath, feeling the fresh air in his lungs. "Isn't it pretty?" The words exited his mouth together with his breath, getting carried away with the wind.Β
Irie smiled at him, her eyes taking in the calm that had fallen over her friend. Just like him, she liked the atmosphere of "outside". Moving her eyes over to the scenery, she answered him. "Yes, it really is. So different from the streets of Canterlot, so... quiet." She closed her eyes, ears twitching to catch the sounds, or rather, the lack of sounds. No chattering, no shouting. No stomping of hooves or rattling of papers and quills. No responsibilities.
"Couldn't agree more. Feels good getting away for some time, doesn't it?" It was more a statement than a question. Both of the friends had lately felt the grip of stress, and without really admitting it, they had hinted to each other that they wanted to get away. In the end, they had decided to visit the outskirts of Canterlot, far from responsibility and stress. Irie gave herself the freedom to leave her duties be, and Joe was his own boss. The busy world would keep going even if they were gone a few hours.
Joe shook himself, letting the wind properly blow through his mane. A few loose strands fell into his eyes, but for once, he didn't bother to fix it. A calm and comfortable silence fell between the two of them, and they kept venturing trough the field, moving with no goal or purpose. Quiet, for once.
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This is based around the calm and nostalgic feeling the picture gave me, and even though I feel their characters are different when you describe them, Lop, I also have seen many people change completely when they get a proper moment of silence. I imagine both Irie and Joe has a lot to do when life is at its busiest, and that this brings them to cherish the moments they have when they don't need to care.
Beautiful as always, really inspiring, as you can see.
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This is gorgeous!!!! Absolutely stunning!!!
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I like this old retro-style you're trying out. It's fucking sweet!
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Cuppa Joe and Princess Iridescence are honestly my favorite ship, so this image gave me happy warm heart fuzzies!
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Hi Lop, do you mind if I ask how do you make lineart look so crisp and neat?
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Oye, ΒΏpuedes darme permiso para dibujar uno de estos personajes?
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It almost has an old Disney style to it, and I love it!!!!
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Truthfully, I think Iridesence should have warmer colors. It's the same problem with Celestia. Right now, Iri looks more like a moon goddess than anything to do with the sun. It's a beautiful design, but doesn't really fit her theme.
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lop stated that irie would be switched from a princess of the sun to princess of light, since celestia nor chrysalis have warm colors in them and it makes more sense visually ^-^
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This is so cool!!! Iβve always loved the style a lot of old vhs movies have and your characters look so good in it!!
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You can just say that, like human's, ponies noses never stop growing, and here they're just a nice old couple~
Lovely~
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Man, I should get a commission from you at some point whenever they're available...and when I've got more monies X3
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it looks like something from Don Bluth's movies
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I am gonna draw up a hypothetical ship kid for these two! They're cute~ :3
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I have the feeling towards G1 the same I have towards the original Mirage Comics version of TMNT: I appreciate it for getting the ball rolling, but what came after is so, SO much better.
That's why I'm wary about G5 in 2020. I want them to keep the somewhat mature tone of G4, but something tells me they are gonna go back to the more dumbed-down style of G1.
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Personally, I love G1, and I think it was a pretty impressive girl cartoon for 80's fare- it had actual conflict, action and adventure, cool creature designs, a broad array of female characters with an assortment of personalities, lessons and morals, and didn't patronize young girls with vapid talk of boy crushes and caring for babies. Mlp:FiM builds more on it, but the original laid very significant framework for it to exist (how many cartoons are there with an all female cast, or even a girl protagonist? G1 was doing that shit more than thirty years ago). G1 also had that high fantasy theme that I really wish FiM stuck to more consistently.
As long as G5 follows the core foundation of MLP (to provide a good, three-dimensional show for little girls), then I'm sure it'll be amazing~
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I am personally very sceptical about the new MLP. It's gonna be really scary seeing twilight as a earth pony with a completely different voice. It's also gonna be scary having the Alicorn families maybe not there. FLUFFY HEART NOOOOOOOO
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Maybe so, but G1 was a lot less mature and lot more sappy than G4, which is why haters have their attitude towards G4 (because they still remember G1 from the 80s).
G1 was always, alongside "Care Bears", "The Smurfs" and "Sesame Street", a punchline about extremely sappy TV shows.
G4 is much more mature and has much better writing.
It's a lot like comparing the original "Stargate" movie with SG1: the original movie was dumbed-down, shlocky fare, even if it did have an audience. SG1 was much more mature and better written.
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I'll agree to disagree, because I find G1 to be on the whole, less sappy and cutesy than FiM (especially the first few episodes of FiM, which felt especially "dumbed-down")
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I love the flatness of this piece! Basically I mean you completely eliminated the third dimension so that the eye doesn't necessarily need to focus on one particular spot imo. don't know if that's what you were going for though XD
BTW i'm colourblind so focus for me = gone lol
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I like this style but not as much as your other style but its a nice change of pace in your art
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I ship it so much! Please tell me there is at least a non canon baby between them or something. I wanna know how they would be as parents.
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Really cute, love this ship by the way.Β I think you nailed down the style cause I was thinking Last Unicorn before I even read the description.Β XD
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Honestly, I prefer the Classic My Little Pony style to the current one.Β But, I'm weird I guess.
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This reminds me of the old MLP style, the one I used to like. Now I think the new one is too much but this piece and those characters make me like it a bit more, even if I don't watch it. Great work!
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style kinda reminds me of the the last unicorn.
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exactly what I thought too
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I really like this, they both look so mature in this style.
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I LOVE THIS ART STYLE SO MUCH AND I HONESTLY NEED MORE OF THIS A GO DJHZXCJSK
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Lop, seriously I LOVE THIS so much! This style just makes me love you twice as much!!!!(I mean i already loved you times a billion) You emulated it so perfectly like OH MY GOSH I can't stop gushing over this BEAUTIFUL piece of art!!! 
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Aww, this is so pretty! And I love scooby doo, too!
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If you ever wanna watch those old cartoons, Netflix has most of them! Even He-Man!
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I like it a lot, you find a nice inbetween real looking horse and cartoony that is very pleasing to the eye
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I like it a lot, you find a nice inbetween real looking horse and cartoony that is very pleasing to the eye
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