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This is the cover art for Stubborn Old Bones by WiseFireCracker on fimfiction. The story is about an old man on his deathbed waiting for the arrival of death finally coming to visit him. But upon being visited by a mysterious being called Ma'am, which apparently isn't Death, she grants him one final wish before his life is finally snuff out, and moves on. But instead of just wish for closure in his life, the grumpy old man asks to get a do over on life, mush to the beings vexation of his demand she grants his wish to him. But, the wish isn't granted in a way that the old man expect and find himself at the outskirts of a farming community in Equerstia in the body of a 16th year old pony.

This was probably the fastest cover art that I have ever done, at only about sixteen hours of work in two days, without compromising on any the details, and even with the corrections that the authors asked me to do on Ma'am that I had originally portrayed as Death(Death is referred to as feminine in the French language and) and changed her into a more fairy figure.

This was actually a lot of fun for me to do this work for one in a long time i didn't hesitate to dive into the work without my usual trepidation that I usually have before building up the nerves to go thought with it in one shot; It was liberating for me to see that that I am finally starting get over my usual anxieties that usually pervades in most things that I do in life. I am finally starting to take more self-assuredness to myself and maybe I will finally be able to face challenges with anticipation again instead of dread.

Unlike my usual working process that I do, I actuality started creating the background instead of starting with the characters, which help me a lot on determining the light and dark sources for my shadings. Bones was a straightforward guy to create having done so many ponies characters for a year now, making him look like he is rolling was some what difficult for me. Doing the scarecrow was also a lot of fun to do, but I didn't want it to look like the one in the show so I decided to change the colors for that. Doing Ma'am in a human/fairy form was a complete amazement for me as I didn't know that I could so intuitively draw realistically a human characters so well without any visual reference to work with. the key for me was keeping in consideration the light source and the defused lighting, that really was a moral buster for me in my self-esteem in my art that I can now better draw what I can visualize in my mind.

Drawing the the fields was a bit tediousness at times but it whent so well. The only real complaint that I have was how I painted the clouds which I feel that I could have done a better job at it.

here is how the original looked :

sta.sh/0s5gtsqk49k

Description
This is the cover art for Stubborn Old Bones by WiseFireCracker on fimfiction. The story is about an old man on his deathbed waiting for the arrival of death finally coming to visit him. But upon being visited by a mysterious being called Ma'am, which apparently isn't Death, she grants him one final wish before his life is finally snuff out, and moves on. But instead of just wish for closure in his life, the grumpy old man asks to get a do over on life, mush to the beings vexation of his demand she grants his wish to him. But, the wish isn't granted in a way that the old man expect and find himself at the outskirts of a farming community in Equerstia in the body of a 16th year old pony.

This was probably the fastest cover art that I have ever done, at only about sixteen hours of work in two days, without compromising on any the details, and even with the corrections that the authors asked me to do on Ma'am that I had originally portrayed as Death(Death is referred to as feminine in the French language and) and changed her into a more fairy figure.

This was actually a lot of fun for me to do this work for one in a long time i didn't hesitate to dive into the work without my usual trepidation that I usually have before building up the nerves to go thought with it in one shot; It was liberating for me to see that that I am finally starting get over my usual anxieties that usually pervades in most things that I do in life. I am finally starting to take more self-assuredness to myself and maybe I will finally be able to face challenges with anticipation again instead of dread.

Unlike my usual working process that I do, I actuality started creating the background instead of starting with the characters, which help me a lot on determining the light and dark sources for my shadings. Bones was a straightforward guy to create having done so many ponies characters for a year now, making him look like he is rolling was some what difficult for me. Doing the scarecrow was also a lot of fun to do, but I didn't want it to look like the one in the show so I decided to change the colors for that. Doing Ma'am in a human/fairy form was a complete amazement for me as I didn't know that I could so intuitively draw realistically a human characters so well without any visual reference to work with. the key for me was keeping in consideration the light source and the defused lighting, that really was a moral buster for me in my self-esteem in my art that I can now better draw what I can visualize in my mind.

Drawing the the fields was a bit tediousness at times but it whent so well. The only real complaint that I have was how I painted the clouds which I feel that I could have done a better job at it.

here is how the original looked :

sta.sh/0s5gtsqk49k