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Baron-Engel — Sombra 6hr color
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Published: 2015-12-09 02:17:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 4725; Favourites: 305; Downloads: 158
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This is a 6 hour experimental piece that I did today. The media is my usual colored pencil, however the piece was done on black paper which gives it a different feel and required me to tackle the piece differently. I worked very loosely and quickly. I only worried about blocking in broad areas of color, then went back tighten the piece up some. However only put in a few suggested details. Instead it is lighting that makes this work and makes the viewer imagine it as being more detailed than it is.
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Edit: Dec 9th I am very honored that this piece was used as the front piece for Early Morning Discussion #365 link
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Thank you. I am rather happy with how piece came out and how it has been received by the public. I am thinking of do a Queen Chrysalis.
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That would be really cool 
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Thanks I am thinking of doing either a Queen Chrysalis or Nightmare Moon in this style.
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Thanks I may do one Chrysalis in this technique and method.
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That is one handsome villain. I love the barely-asymmetrical smirk.
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Yes he does have a rather contemptuous grin on his face.
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How does Sombra appeal to you, dear baron?
His untapped potential appeals to me in several dark ways.
Sombra represents Equestria and the Crystal Empire's crimes of Racial Injustice and Genocide against the Umbran species.
Lied to by Amore and allowed to suffer without reason and explanation for many years.
Sombra metes out justice on Amore, only to be accused of being a monster by Radiant Hope.
After rightfully claiming the Crystal Throne, he punishes the Crystal Ponies by having them unearth and restore his species to existence.
But by the wickedness of interlopers, he is cheated of his throne, his domain, his servants, and his destiny.
He was utterly foiled, shattered, and replaced by false and undeserving usurpers... not in the name of love and justice... but in the name of this status quo: To keep the Umbrans as buried memories.
Add to the final note that Celestia secretly express affection for a Sombra from an alternate universe and abhors the Sombra of her own world and you realize that Celestia is a despicable hypocrite.
Equestria and the Crystal Empire preach their empty lies of friendship, harmony, hope, and love but they are proof that there is no such thing as coexistence, tolerance, and equality; They won't allow the Umbrans even their most basic rights to live and exist.
Why???
Because they rightfully fear them as their own sins made manifest.
Their status quo to keep the Umbran as buried memories... it is only feeding the fire to an eternal cycle of vengeance.
And no matter what is done, it is absolutely pointless to fight shadows as long as the sun is still alive.
The Equestrian and Crystal ponies will ultimately get what they richly deserve from the Umbrans... because Justice is never always blind and discriminatory.
Please pardon all of the contempt you sense in this rambling.
This is how I feel a true Umbran would see things as they are.
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I believe you misunderstand my intent in posting an image of the character Sombra. I did it as study of the character and as testing of techniques on a different working surface.
Anything else you read into is what you bring to the table. He does not appeal to me at all. He is intriguing to me, but that is different. I will study individuals like him as a way to better understand the full range of the human condition. The same way I've read about Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler and the Spanish Inquisition. I view them as being cautionary tale. However you position on the subject is quite clear, and I am not in the mood to go into a long drawn out argument about the difference between show canon and the comic canon.
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I'm sorry.
I was just asking a question about what you think of Sombra.
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Well to be blunt I have read the comic book stories about him including the current ongoing one, but take the comic canon as not having the same weight as the TV show's canon. So based on the TV show canon I really don't know whole lot about the fellow. He doesn't get much in the way of lines and for the most part comes off as a brute. Not that history hasn't had lots of those.
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So he's still underdeveloped for you to have any interest.
Fair enough.
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Well when he pops up in my dreamscape he gets a few more lines of dialogue. However I learn this entirely through other ponies tales.
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Hey, look! This was a feature piece on EQD!
Early Morning Discussion #365
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Eeyup. Should be in the Drawfriends today to.
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This looks really, really strange. The good kind of strange. I am not used to this black paper thing.
"odorless mineral spirits"
Wat
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"odorless mineral spirits"
Wat
Odorless mineral spirits, also referred to odorless turpentine and other names. I use it to dissolve the wax in the colored pencil and Prismacolor Artstixs that I use. It allows me to more evenly blend the color and it removes most of the wax from the working surface so I can apply layer after layer of color while avoiding the heavy wax build up that can make working in colored pencil difficult.
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I had no idea you had to use tupertine for drawing with pencils XD
It's basically the equivalent of thinning your paints when you paint models.
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Yes, in way. In fact you can use paint thinner like you would use with enamel model paints although I prefer artist OMS. The advantage is that gives you some of the flexibility of wet paints, with the controllability of dry media. Also I never have to worry about my paints drying because they already are!
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I remember the Enamel! They're the ones my father gave me, back when I started painting. I remember it took it a few billion years to dry...
We clearly work in very different media XD
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Yeah enamels dried much more slowly. Actually built myself a drying box specifically to help keep dust off them while they dried.
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Thanks glad you liked it.
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Your Sombra is more threatening than canon Sombra.
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Hmmm, interesting since I did this Sombra a bit closer to show style for this piece. The Sombra that appeared in my dreamscape was even creepier in my eyes.
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Yikes! Damn scrollbar froze on me while I was moving down past his eyes. Sleeping with lights on tonight.
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He does have a rather forceful stare.
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Nice creepy feel to this one. Only appropriate considering just who this is.
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While Sombra himself got almost no lines and very little screen time, there were artifacts about his reign that were downright creepy. That doorway/ trap at the bottom of the stairs leaps to mind.
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To say nothing of the curse he laid on the Crystal Ponies, which left them terrified to even think about him.
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Yeah he probably got taken off most ponies Hearth's Warming Eve card list.
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Yes but he can keep himself very warm with that mountain of coal he gets from Santa every year.
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Yeah, and since he probably didn't have some special pony to willing snuggle up with on winter night I imagine the palace could get rather cold.
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Dude you were right see it as the few colors used and it being all about the shading and the light and where it is coming from.I did not really notice it until now.And would have not really noticed it until I read the description.However one thing I do see that could be fixed if this was digital art would be Sombras neck protector the top most link or section is not symmetric and this was not until I looked at it for a second time. This is something I would not mind seeing in the future especially with your Equestria Dreamscape pieces that you publish. It can be interesting trying to bring innocence of a filly on black paper do to the papers color normally makes the viewer believe that it is evil but when it could not be evil.
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I have thought of doing a piece of Applebloom when she was possessed by the Deception in this combination of dark paper and colored pencil. Although for that piece I'd used dark red instead of black for the paper.
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Holy shazbots batman. This is just wow... If this was an experiment, then its one heck of a success..
Seriously, this looks stunning.
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Yeah I just collected some reference and just started to attack the paper with the color. Unlike most of pieces I drew in just the most rudimentary underdrawing before put the color down. If I made mistakes I just tweaked it as I went along.
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