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Published: 2014-03-30 01:35:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 19568; Favourites: 1329; Downloads: 1366
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Another ~3 day picture.The last few things I've posted have been commissions, so I figured I ought to try this again. "This" being what's turning into a habit of drawing backlit Celestia . It's sort of my benchmark image. Measure how hot the processor gets while drawing, see how long it takes, and determine if I've improved any.
Speaking of processors, I'm a layer fiend. around layer 52, SAI started complaining it was out of memory and started randomly discarding whole layers during merge operations. What followed were some tense moments while I carefully pruned and merged things down to a more manageable size.
They say you have to leave your comfort zone to improve. I feel like doing that just makes me kinda angry at my work though.
Gosh, creation is tiring, so if you'll excuse me, I hear it's Saturday, and that there are things to consume.
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Hello. You are an amazing artist! I am writing a book, and I am looking for pictures to use as illustrations. Ive also contributed a few music songs to the fandom with my artistry.
I have a few thousand pictures on my drive and I've narrowed it down to just a few. I like your style. I of course would give you a credit page in the book. Let me know if you can alter it a tiny bit to make it original. I would like to have an all original picture that's not released on the internet. I would prefer to have the artist inspired by my work. I can probably provide you with an advanced readers copy of the book.You can also see the promo trailer I created as well. I will link below. I might be able to throw in some pony picks from my page as well.
Thanks
~AWD
TRAILER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usczow…
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These Pictures Are Like No Other!!!
You Draw Them Best!!!
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I love your pictures of Celestia! They aren't making her look like a tyrant or creepy or anything like that! I think you capture her in a great light, with great lighting (bad pun plz). Keep drawing!
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is this 2d or 3d????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Awww. This reminds me of the first Spyro game on PS1, in the peacekeepers level.
Why doesn't it remind me of the time I was in AIT in Arizona, or Afghanistan, or similar places in World of Warcraft? Meh, I guess I'm more sentimental about things from my childhood, and Celestia was more likely to pull it out.
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This is soooo amazing! At first I thought it was 3d! The sun behind the pony makes the whole image look epic!! ^^
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Very pretty! Those quarray eels don't stand a chance.
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Princess Celestia's flank works just like a prism when held up to the light, CONFIRMED! Lol, in all seriousness this looks beautiful like, I have a conniption trying to draw rocks and dirt and here you've done a fine job doing a rendition of an entire canyon, haha. Plus, the lighting and shading looks just as stunning as everything else so, I have zero critiques to offer you here. Kudos, bro~
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This is so beautifully done! Celestia herself would be proud of this one!
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One little nitpick; I believe you forgot the 'shoe' on Celestia's back hoof, between her tail and wing.
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*is reminded of all the Ace Combat missions where the player has to weave through ridiculously tight canyons in supersonic fighter jets due to a 'kill zone' being established in the overhead airspace*
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Nice job! Especially on the backlighting and the Grand Canyon!
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Quoug u vouagyuhar kyusgalo. Yu rebo no ceno Sorocgyuu ulg quoolo uso'c meg u glera el u lukyucg. Colyueacri, quoug'c qulemt quyuch ceno koekro?
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Chumpc! Yug'c klevuvri evbyueac hlen ni turaoli uso'c u hubelyugo eh nyumo geeh.
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Pajec, iea'lo cho emri kolcem quoeh teg ni Uklyur Heer'c Jui klump. OTC hgqu.
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Wow this is awesome
The color shift of your clouds is beautiful and I love how you put the sun behind Celestia
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Wow, that is really really awesome!! I'm really amazed at the shading and just the overall lighting of this pic! The background has a charming simplicity to it, it looks very much alive and flows amazingly well with this pic! Overall, you did a wonderful job on this picture, keep up the awesome work!
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wow, very nice effects. The sunset ambience is indeed very intersting.
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The combination of colours is really unique. I really like what you did with the clouds' colour scheme and their overall lighting. Also, to top it off, the sky's color contrasts beautifully with it. The whole scenery looks fantastic, the brushwork in the rocks is very smooth and well taken care of. Their detail is very well worthy of observation, great job!
Celestia looks fantastic here, I can't decide whether the mane and tail or the wings look better XD. I like the colours you used for her, it is not only a shade of very light pink but some parts use a slight purple and a very mild white. That combination of colours works really good, it is very noticeable with this picture. The pose is very dynamic, every part of her body was drawn very well and look very proportionate. I also think that the detail of not adding the typical white dot(s) to the eyes is really cool, since they aren't really reflecting any light at all. It might be your style or the way you do eyes, but I still think that about it, nonetheless.
Very astounding piece, indeed. I really liked it, awesome job!
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Thanks for the comprehensive review! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
The clouds were actually the first thing I did for this, and they were pretty fun, since I'd never really made anything quite like them before.
The color on Celestia's body and hair is something I fiddled with quite a bit, it's meant to be a result of reddish light from below (reflected from the canyon) and more bluish light from above. Multiplied with her ever so slightly pinkish coat it ends up being substantially pinker than I'd expect, but does give a pretty bold look.
You nailed it with the specular dots (or lack thereof) on her eyes, in fact, if you look closely, you can see the reflection of the sky and clouds in front of her in her eyes.
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Reflected color and ambience light are awesome details that really enhance pictures, it's really cool that you added those to your drawing.
Oh, yeah! I had to go back to the picture and observe it. That's another really cool detail, kudos to that!
You're very welcome 
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Gorgeous work! The detail on this is very well done, it's clean, it's brush-style, and it's beautiful to look at. Lovely work. =3
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Celestia great in this. I like to see her flying since we didn't see her doing it often. She seems to search for something or somepony. What was your inspiration for this piece?
Wonderful work.
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Ah, that's tricky, I don't know that I could specify any particular inspiration for this, I just sorta wanted to do another flying Celestia and wondered where the most epic place to do it would be. Canyons came to mind. I guess they're good for flying scenes because they emphasize the speed of motion that isn't often visible in flight because you're so far from everything, not that that really comes through in a still like this, but what am I gonna do?
Also I was listening to Two Steps from Hell.
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I was just wondering. I forgot to mention you that your piece is the header of tonight's EQD Drawfriend.:www.equestriadaily.com/2014/03…
Congrats!
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