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Niarbon — ESS 2012: Captain Bonnie-Kate

Published: 2012-12-27 19:23:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 778; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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Description Bit too late for Christmas but when I tried to upload it before Christmas I got an error every time I tried and couldn't upload it sooner than today .

So this was my first ESS, I got to draw for:
Who has these awesome pirate horse characters all with extensive background stories, and that got me a bit carried away.
Was difficult to choose between the characters, doing more than one would definitely not be done in time. And then I noticed the skulltattoo on her character Captain Bonnie-Kate, my pony Lodewijk has an oval mark on the same leg on the exact same spot, so I thought that was funny and therefore I picked this char . So I wanted a pose that showed the tattoo, to save myself some time I used this reference picture: [link]

The info said Bonnie-Kate sails mostly around the Mediterranean area so I wanted to portray her in that environment.
I did change the font of her tattoo, I though a more piratey/tattoo font would look a bit better for the tattoo than the thin handwritten letters, but if you want to, it's on a different layer so I can make you a copy with the original tattoo design.

Long story short: I hope you like it and that you aren't too disappointed it's not in time for Christmas.
Happy New Year!

Oh and if anyone didn't allready, check out all the other entries at 's page who organised this years ESS: [link] !
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Comments: 6

AwesomePossum26 [2012-12-29 05:34:56 +0000 UTC]

oooo I love everything about this!! Such beautiful work! Everything looks so smooth

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Niarbon In reply to AwesomePossum26 [2012-12-31 23:14:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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AwesomePossum26 In reply to Niarbon [2012-12-31 23:58:17 +0000 UTC]

welcome

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ArtofBekSutton [2012-12-28 00:35:47 +0000 UTC]

Ohh my gosh I have been in love with your artwork for sooo long and this is so beautiful. I had almost given up hope that I was going to get a gift but this has made all the waiting worth it thank you so so much. I love how you have paid so much attention to the character in terms of design and back story I can even see the flag in there and that me makes me super happy. I can't thank you enough Happy hoildays

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Niarbon In reply to ArtofBekSutton [2012-12-31 23:14:19 +0000 UTC]

I did my research Went trough my watchlist and all to see if you where watching me, so when I found out you did I wanted to do something more than a regular portrait picture. Glad you like it, I really love the concept of your characters and story and had a lot of fun painting this .
Happy new years

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ArtofBekSutton In reply to Niarbon [2013-02-09 00:49:28 +0000 UTC]

That is super sweet and I can really seen the effort that was put into to it. Thank you again It is a sensational gift

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