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josh-5410 β Canterlot Interpretation
Published: 2012-03-22 06:03:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 16887; Favourites: 828; Downloads: 282
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My very first submission
This is my interpretation of Canterlot, drawn on a sheet of 8x11. If you compare this with the actual castle, you'll see that they are very different. I tried my best to keep the integrity of the original, but I guess I got carried away :/ Any ways, I hope you like it as much as I do!
inspired by [link]
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Very beautiful work! Nice details, good pencil feel.
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How do you get the sun and sky details? Do you shade then erase? Very stunning by the way. I love these sketches of yours.
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I have to say,nice job Β with some of the details in some of your pictures of Canterlot,I try to look for more realistic pictures because it's hard to describe how big Canterlot is in the show,and it often times looks smaller on the outside.
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Ha, Thanks
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Thanks! Glad you like it~
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its...ITS BEAUTYFULL!!! that lights and architecture, Awesome!
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Thanks! Glad you like it
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Canterlot looks incredible no matter how an artist interprets it.
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That's why I love Canterlot!
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Well, this is really impressive! Mind you, this is coming from someone that hasn't even tried to draw anything pony-related. Not to say I never draw, though, but I have no original art actually uploaded on dA.
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Thanks! I appreciate it.
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I like how you made the castle actually look *gigantic*. In the show, it kinda has this 16-bit RPG thing going where from the outside it looks kinda small but then it's bigger on the inside.
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Glad you like it! Yeah, I know what you mean. Especially in the very last scene of the season finale where you can actually see how big the castle is compared to a pony. It's very small
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Good lord, your drawings are incredible! Every time I click to view another of your drawings i'm blown away time and time again by the incredible detail, realism, imagination and the emotion that go into your drawings.
Where on earth did you learn to draw like this? Or, if you were self taught, how long did it take you to become this skilled?
I mean, I would kill (not literally, of course) to have the drawing skills you have!
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Well, shucks
I guess you can say I self taught myself. But any actual self teaching would have been sub-conscious, or I just got really lucky. To be honest, I really don't know where I got any of this. But I can say over the past year I've improved through conscious practice, lol.
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What? Well that's not right.. I'll get on that soon!
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Mind-blowing! I want to make a 3d model of Canterlot someday, and I may use this as a reference to help design the city...
Here's some beautiful, fitting music, IMO
Lol, and it looks like you decided to give the bottom hole a shadow (the 3 holes in the paper)
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Glad you like it! A model of Canterlot would be pretty kick ass, if you ask me.
WHITACRE FAN! /) Lol, we're playing a couple pieces by him at my university. He's great.
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He is!
You know something that's stumped me, though, is how to actually get to Canterlot.
If you carefully look at the scenes that show it in "Sweet and Elite", that little portion where the Gala is held is not only a far ways off, but is separated by solid rock - it's on an entirely different ledge than the city itself. Look just to the left side of the base of the left tower of it here: [link] (picture is accurate, I checked). This is confirmed by two moments in the episode when the camera pans past it, and it zips by much closer than the city itself, which is much further away (parallax).
Then there's the boatlaunch; [link] from that angle, it must be north of Canterlot, but then something identical is shown right at the end when Rarity talks about her roots in Ponyville, so there's another boat launch to the south of Canterlot, I guess... And a path going south, so my guess is, just below the Garden and Ballroom, a little ways down the cliff, is the path that leads to Canterlot on another ledge.
It's all very fun, and eye-hurting to study, lol. But I REALLY love things like this, actually. I love to imagine exploring all the nooks and crannies, like the little lower street you drew right next to the enormous fountains, and the little courtyard just above them, or this little garden I noticed just in front of the enormous round building - which I can only guess is the library (remembering S1E1, when Twilight wrote that letter she was looking out enormous windows a lot like those on that huge building.) [link]
So that path Twilight ran along in S1E1, right after the intro, must be just to the right of that building, it was all grassy, so in that garden area... It's like a big puzzle, piecing all this together
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Wow, I'm just surprised that they have been consistent with the architecture on the show. I never noticed! Usually cartoons are filled with these types of inconsistency. Maybe the rock you're talking about has a tunnel in it? Who knows, lol
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This is just...
I mean.
Sir, could I use this? I have a rather (admittingly not as popular as one could hope) story set within Canterlot, and the current art is... lackadaisical, at best. Would you mind if.... No. Would you give me the honour of using this fine image to embellish my own work?
Here's the story in question:
[link]
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Oh, shucks.. Well I'm flattered! Of course you can use it. Thanks for the kind words
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Hah, puns. Mayhaps unintentional but appreciated no less!
And thank you, I'll go change that around right away!
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Unintended, lol. But puns are the best! Who says that they're the lowest form of comedy? Not me, haha
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UOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Canterlot seems to be a very defendable city. What with the seemingly only viable entry into the city is by the rail line.
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*sigh* sometimes I wish I lived in Canterlot.
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You should do some of the Evrfree Forest and Ponyville!
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I'm avoiding the everfree forest because I feel it will end up looking like a regular old forest. My main focus is reality, after all, haha
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But you could put the Castle Ruins, and Zecora's hut in view. It would obviously be the Forest. :3
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This is twenty times better than my attempt at drawing Canterlot, and It's Traditional!
If I may ask, what tools do you use, and did you have a reference Image?
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Thanks, man! Glad you like it.
I believe I used a graphite pencil and a mechanical for the smaller things. And an eraser for the sunlight and sky, of course. I used a reference for this, as well.
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No charcoal? Very well done, and the details are perfect.
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WH0A! i tried to draw Canterlot once...it didn't go very well.
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Puts mine so to shame, this is awesome!
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Heh thanks! Glad you like it.
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