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SilFoe β Celestial Practice 1: Old Masters Palette
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Published: 2015-12-26 18:57:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 9437; Favourites: 727; Downloads: 479
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I got a new book of art stuff, "Color and Light" by James Gurney and I want to practice some with it. Who knows how far I'll actually get but even a little practice doesn't hurt. I figured I could basically do a whole bunch of pictures of Celestia so I could get my practice in with my favorite princess!So the first practice was old master's palette. I have some experience with this years ago with oil painting, so it was a great refresher and something I should've tried to do digitally a LONG time ago. The violet in her eyes is the only thing you can't make with an earth tone palette, but considering she is royal, it's historically accurate to use a little bit of expensive blue pigments, even for an informal portrait like this. The composition is definitely modern though.
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Your artwork is beautiful and amazing!Β
also Tia is my favorite as wellΒ
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Did you base it of anything in the book? Or did you already know about some palette?
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I have some experience with old master works. I had been an oil painting student and we were often tasked with recreating old masterpieces. I used to copy Caravaggio a lot. We learned how to construct it from a Burnt Umber base, use a wipe out method, then build it all up with earth tones, as in, the pigments all came from the soil. Color was applied last. all that
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Wow, I am in love! Your work is incredible
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Oh? This mean we are going to have even more epic pieces made by y-
Wait! Celestia is your favorite? I thought it was Luna! Unless you mentioned it a while back and I forgot... Mmmm. Maybe.
BEautiful work on this one.
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I love both of them and Twilight. Twilight is favorite pony overall, Celestia is favorite princess, Luna is favorite... I'm not sure, but she is well loved.
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That's okay. Sometimes I struggle myself between Celestia and Luna being my favorite.
But Luna is most the time for me. Same choice for best pony.
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Draw as much Tia as you please, ma'am. I've absolutely nothing against it
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It's so... classical. And this brown mane looks quite natural. I like the style very much, definitely it is something new among similar pony-drawings.
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This gives me tons of inspiration just looking at it. Beautiful job. Her hair and eye are my favorite parts.
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Lovely picture.
Obviously the young Celly.. I bet she's lookin' at some stallion and either decided to be his rival or just woo him...
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An elegant and truly lovely piece of art. Β
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Man, I love these painterly works. 
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I think it looks beautiful.
I don't know if it's just me but, with how you've made the shading, she kinda looks made of marble.
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Oh my goodness, that is simply gorgeous! Β Very cool reading about how much thought you put into putting this piece together. Β I assume this is supposed to be a younger Celestia, what with the solid pink mane and all?
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Beautiful, Silfoe! I especially love her eyes and "normal" mane. What a pretty pony!
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A teenage Celestia, back when she thought Dissy was hot.Β
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Doesn't look too much like Celestia. Has different mane. Looks more like Faust.
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Awesome!
This is definitely hanging in Canterlot Castle somewhere.
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Reminds me of Degas' paintings with how theatrical the light is played. Gorgeous tones and colours. ^^_
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Thank you! I love it when they used very theatrical and dramatic lighting. So, Caravaggio and Vermeer especially always caught my attention with their lighting and compositions.
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