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This is a special one. I wanted to practice with thinner, more elegant lineart and wanted to make something with deep shadows and highlights. I feel pleasantly happy with the results of this one. I drew this over a live stream and the first half was really good and I had a bunch of viewers and had a lot of fun, the continuation was a train wreck with everything breaking XD but it went well anyway. Also this canvas is twice as big as I normally make it so, yeah. I was overcautious the whole time of Manga Studio crashing on me so I was like, exporting to a different file every time I saved incase it crashed on me and killed the file. it actually did crash on me once, and I had to do the highlights all over again. oh well. Honestly I really like Celestia. She's a good character and I love the sunny and friendly personality she has all the time. like, for a ruler of a whole kingdom over thousands of years it's pretty cool she's so benevolent. and have you seen her in the comics? Dang, I LOVE the way they write her in the comics. and she's all over them. but they make her such a deep and lovable character, with more flaws and pony emotion than she has in the show and much more determination and noble badassery. actually the end of nightmare moon's story in the fiendship is magic comic inspired this picture lol This was my first time drawing her so I wanted to capture her regality and majesticness. |
