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Drew up a revised Sapphire reference sheet. Hoping to start up her Tumblr soon~ :Y

Okay, I have a class to go to, but I just wanted to comment on this. Every time I see drawings of Sappy I get really bugged by that blue…

The blue itself is fine! Nothing wrong with having a highly saturated main colour… but I think it stands out too much against the grey coat, destracting the eye and making it harder to actually appreciate the image as a whole. Here’s a quick throw-in from me before I go to class:

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[ FOLDER I BEFORE I AFTER ]

Reason I see is that the mane is highly saturated, while the coat has no saturation at all. Almost everything has SOME colour! In the above GIF I made a very rough filter over her coat in some areas as stated on the right. It’s a majorly subtle change (probably totally irrelevant to most people), but I think it brings out her coat a great deal and makes her a lot more pleasant to behold.

Doesn’t have to be purple, but I do recommend at least using a colour other than pure blue. Keeps the contrast there.

That’s the only one I think is REALLY needed (no matter how pedantic it may seem).

My other thoughts (as shown) are that you should desaturate the yellow, primarily, since it clashes with the blue at such high brightness, I think… maybe also add some colour to the Pipbuck (most of my designs have it a really silvery green), but they’re just trim and it’s not nearly as prolific.

EDIT: Expanded my example.

Some by me, most by Kalemon. Roll20 is a nightmare to draw in, sadly.

(Some of the character tokens are drawn by us or friends, some borrowed/edited work from others, I think.)

Character rundown if interested:

Keep reading

Okay, so when I was first drawing my Dust token… I got stuck partway in and doodled out this. Then I didn’t stop drawing.

What started as a quick doodle edit became an entirely separate drawing using the same beginning lineart… which KEEPS HAPPENING.

This version is not quite Luna as you know, but rather Gravity Resonance from the fic named ’Days of wasp and Spider’. The armour is nothing like any kind of things he may or may not have worn in the fic, so no spoilers there. Just inspired by some things you’ll encounter reading through.

(I’m not really happy with it- was never intended to be this piece, so it’s not laid out as it would be. Feels like I drew it a year ago or something, heh)

The GM gave my current alicorn salvaged ranger armour.

Kinda need it since she’s not a strong damage-dealer like my last one; she’s much more a Unity information-gathering form. 

Yes, she’s missing feathers, part of her mane and most of her tail. She’s been an alicorn a while. This One was fairly new.

EDIT: Fixed an issue with a filter and also added a variant. Personal headcanon that ranger armour would be slightly decorative due to the bonus intimidation afforded and the factor of them being the ultimate creation of MWT and such. Also just the armour itself.

Made this blog a subdomain for my site. Dunno why I didn’t do this earlier.

EDIT:

Felt like I should share the other stuff that came from this, even if it’s barely different or mostly just a doodle.

1. Pretty much the whole reason the piece came about- was playing with positioning legs and memorising a more realisting equine skeleton.
2. Initial positing i chose for the drawing
3. COMPLETE ACCIDENT. Pretty much the only reason i ended up drawing a full skeleton.
4. Last variant i didn’t post because my SAI crapped out. Also it’s transparent. 
5. Transparent skeleton only; for reference, PnP tokens… whatever. Feel free to make use of it, though I’d rather like too be credited for anything dramatic. (Please don’t just use it as a base though… I’m REALLY not a fan of that practice).

So, here I was just doing some small exercises on improving leg placement…

Ahaha…ha….

Posting another of these as an update for commissioners and anyone wondering why I’m not producing much:

1. Money stuff

• Won’t go into details.
• Save for commissioning Joaftheloaf a music track for future animation showreels. (Yes, this is a thing I’m doing and have spoken to the artist about.)

2. Finish Commissions:

• Krootman’s two OC commissions
• Tofu’s Greaser comm
• Nightshade’s OC (inc.redesigned colours)
• Mother’s two Cobalds
• Muny Company piece

3. Open More commissions

• Chase up cover commission request.
• I may be required to up my commission timeline due to the above point 2. Depends what happens. I may do so regardless to save money for some other things.

1. Uni work for tomorrow:
- Scan stupid storyboard thing for classmate, Finish Uni animation work for collab tonight (easy), export full piece with new animation

1. Finish up uni piece
play with in after effects and reexport

I drew something… it ended up as this.

This is basically how I go about designing my characters. The image shows what factors feed directly into other factors… and why I work in that order.

The idea is that a normal unicorn living in show-style canterlot will have very different interests, personality and talents to a Fallout Equestria Pegasus- the environments are so totally different along with the thigs they have the chance to be good at. 

Some factors just don’t matter in determining others… I also kinda think that Name and Cutie Mark don’t have to match, but they’ll correlate due to the same deciding factors.

THEME refers to an overarching idea- Rainbow Dash is all about speed, which is affected by her personality, where she lives and her race. A Unicorn in Canterlot would likely be much less interested i becoming the fastest Pony in Equestria. Her theme is a little more than just her talent though… it’s speed AND colour AND flashiness!

from that we get her talent, colours, name and cutie mark… though each is also fed into by other things.

Silly Noble doesn’t know her mutants, clearly.

Commissioned OC piece.

Today has been a constructive day, art-wise.

I don’t, as a rule. Usually I just edit a post if it’s not a big change… in most cases there’s a good reason to post it again- be it a complete redraw, separate version finished later or that I altered something months and months later.

I don’t, however, like bunching stuff up- as with the shirt posts I wanted to keep the shirts separate to the actual artwork.

Aaand the same image but with a hoodie and horn removed (for reasons)

EDIT: Changed for version with horn here too.