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Published: 2019-12-25 06:10:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 9274; Favourites: 1015; Downloads: 0
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The time is upon us once again for me to return to this little gallery and you people who watch it, and hold to the tradition that I've kept these past seven years. With only Apple Bloom having been featured in a previous installment, I figured it was high time to do something with all three Crusaders. I think this one really benefited from my efforts to be more careful with my edges and values, and refraining from putting a hard outline around every single shape.
This may be the last picture I post this year, or this decade for that matter, but rest assured I am far from done and have no intention of letting another year slip by without posting art. I have plenty of ideas I want to draw (as well as a few old pictures I never got around to posting), and a lot of lost time to make up for.
Anyway, as always, have a very Merry Christmas!
Watercolor on 140 lb. Strathmore watercolor paper. Finished: 12/22/19.
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Beware of that Earth Pony strength in a snow fight...
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Even if it's been a while, it's nice to see you back in the saddle with your paintings. Nice job on the snowballs that Sweetie Belle is holding, the blur effect looks great on it. Applebloom looks like she's bringing the pain, a la a wrestler.
Merry Christmas! (It is still in the 12 days of Christmas! So it completely counts!)
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Great art!
Look like Sweetie Belle has an avantage
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You're very welcome!ā¤ļøš, how are you?.
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This is absolutely gorgeous! I love to see such detailed watercolor pieces like this!
Amazing work!
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Amazing landscape , and poor Scootaloo as she is going down
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This is absolutely adorable! They're all great but I love love love Sweetie Belle in this picture!
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Thanks very much!
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I think you're one of the best MLP fan artists out there, your quality is great. If you could manage a few more posts, I'd love to see them.
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With all the amazing artists that I've seen in this fandom, I take that as the highest compliment. Thank you.
Well then, Stay tuned!
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I will be waiting with great anticipation!
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You are welcome!
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Thank you!
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your welcome
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This is really beautiful, the-wizard-of-art
Wizard indeed (or more likely a lot of work and learning) with your marvelous use of aquarelle colors. I really love this picture. Both, motive and the way it is done are just really awesome!
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Thanks very much!
It all starts with a good foundation. If your composition is weak or your values and edges aren't reading properly, all the flashy colors and fancy brushwork in the world won't save your picture.
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Thank you very much, The-Wizard-of-Art
It is funny that you point out this very crucial point right now because these days I am planning on some comic pages and am very much reminded to the need of a good composition by one complex panel. A good arrangement of main visual focus character and the visually less prominent (but integral for the punchline of the page) characters is a challenge indeed. There is a lot left to learn for me.
The arrangement in your image is really well done and I am trying to point out some of the means which create the effect.
The crusaders are forming a triangle with the character closest to the viewer (Scootaloo) set between the two other corners (Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom) who come at different elevations (if that's the correct term) and with the triangle they are forming being not symetric. I guess if Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were both on the same side of Scootaloo the entire focus of the image would shift to Scootaloo and her running away with the other two appearing somewhat detached from her (also it would probably create the false impression of Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom teaming up against Scootaloo when Apple Bloom is actually about to ambush Sweetie. I think it would also make a huge (and negative) difference if Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were at the same hight or at the same distance from Scootaloo (again this would probably draw too much attention to Scootaloo only and make the other crusaders "background ponies" so to speak).
I'm memorizing how these aspects contribute to how well your composition works.
Thank you very much for this inspiration
It is a great pleasure to learn from somebody who has mastered the composition so well.
May I ask if you did experimental sketches to figure out the composition or did you have exactly this composition in mind from the very beginning?
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Firstly, I apologize for taking so long to respond. I didn't mean to blow you off for a whole month, but it seems my powers of procrastination are a worthy rival for my drawing skills.
With that aside I must say your assessment of this picture was very insightful, and I'm pleased that you consider my work worthy of such thorough study.
I do start my process with thumbnail sketches and try to explore as many different ideas and arrangements as I can, and it's funny that you mention it, but one of them did have Apple Bloom between Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. For the very reasons you described, it didn't work, and there wasn't enough distance between Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle for the giant snowball to feel threatening. Elevating Apple Bloom and moving her to the other side of Scootaloo helped to balance the picture out and, as you pointed out, put the fillies in a triangle configuration which made for a much better visual flow.
I wish you the best of luck with your comic project (if you haven't finished it by now). You seem to have a pretty good understanding of composition and how it works, so I'm sure if you keep studying good examples of it and apply what you learn it should turn out great!
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The fact that I have not finished the comic project goes to show that I am much of a procrastinator myself and always happy to be reassured of not being the only one
Your image has been really helping to make me actually deliberately think (and also reread some things) about good arrangement. Thank you very much for making me learn some things and raising some awareness of important points I hadn't given sufficient thought before
With the comic project one problem is that I must stick to the arrangement of characters set in earlier panels (so they don't end up randomly flicking around) which in one case would turn out rather problematic. The most problematic part of it however would be caused by text bubbles in the panel. I guess I'll have to turn that panel into two to make it fit.
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Knowing Scootaloo, she will just dodge some of the snowballs and then fire right back. Really cute, captures the playful nature of the cmc really well.
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Probably. She is pretty quick on her hooves. Thanks, that was certainly my intention!
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I am wondering, that the end result of this situation would look like this:
LINK:Ā Snowing Days
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Maybe. It could just as easily end up with Sweetie buried under a massive snowball.
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Truly beautiful, Scoots is definitely regretting this plan to get their revenge on Sweetie Belle.
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AppleBlooms about to do a slam dunk XDĀ
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Straight through Sweetie Belle's little hoop of snowballs.
That wasn't even intentional.
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SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Sweetie Belle XD
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Scoots is missing the time when Sweetie couldn't do that.
Wonderful work and Merry X-mas
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That darned Twilight's just too good of a teacher.
Thanks!
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You saw the result in the finale, so yep.
My pleasure
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Better run Scootaloo.
All joking aside, this looks fantastic.
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Thanks very much!
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