BaronEngel
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Sun Chariot final color
🕑 Added 2022-07-08 00:42:13 +0000 UTCCelestia smiled and looked out over vast dry lake bed. The sun which had once symbolized her office was setting in the West. But now she was released from that duty and in her retirement she was finding plenty of other things to do with her spare time.
Speaking of time, happy hour should've begun at that roadside bar she passed a ways back. She could go for a drink, a meal, and some fun. The stillness of the lake bed was shattered as she brought her radial engine bike back to life. Then motored off into the sunset.
If you've noticed I haven't been posting as much recently. Its because I've been working on and preparing to start working on several very large color pieces. Here's the first one.
This is a patreon reward for Caerdwyn who has been a patron since the very beginning and who sets aside his Saturday's twice a month to co-host my Picarto stream. Link. This piece represents many, many months of saved pledges and commitment on his end. Thank you.
Whenever I am working on a color MLP piece there are couple of rules I generally follow:
1. Boost the color saturation and vibrancy.
2, Keep the use of earth tones along black and greys to minimum. There is very little earth tones in this piece, and a small amount of black used. Instead I used pinks, yellows, oranges, purples, and violets to create most of the colors in this piece. With the exception of her Highness's mane and tail.
The piece is 14" x24" and was done on Strathmore 500 Series Vellum 2ply Bristol Board. The piece was done primarily done in colored pencil. Both Faber-Castell Polychromos and Prismacolor Premiers. These were blended with Gamblin Gamsol.
Some initial underpainting was done with Tombow brush pens. Also I predefined certain elements of the piece, like the bike, with disposable technical pens. Once the colored pencil work was finished I went back in the technical pens and white gouache to enhance and define certain elements of the piece.
Including preliminary thumbnails, color studies, reference collecting, plus final color work I probably have about 60 hours in this piece.
FYI. The engine on the bike is loosely based on the Rotec R2800 engine. Link Which has been used by some bike builders to create radial engine motorcycles.
Comments
Caerdwyn
And that's exactly the case. Choppers handle like absolute crap; the only reasons they don't sag hugely on the forks is 1) they're massively overbuilt (wall thickness of the material) for their diameter and 2) actually carry very little weight as the center of gravity is so far back. Many long-throw choppers don't even bother with front brakes for that very reason.
Baron Engel
Its a tiny Twilight plush.
WILLIAM C JOHNSON
I have always wondered at the effectiveness of the suspension on such an extreme extension front fork on a chopper. Seems to me that the forks would want to flex instead of telescoping. It's a matter of geometry. Axe
WILLIAM C JOHNSON
Wowsers! BTW, what is that hanging from her horn??? Looks like a tiny Dashie plush??? Axe
Karl Maurer
There's not enough 'hearts' to click to say how much I like this. Great work!
crusadier
Stunning piece of work 👍 👍
Ayumi Silverfox
This is a spectacular piece of art Baron. The amount of care an detail applied really shines thru; from the coloring work to the smallest details on the radial engine. It’s really a breathtaking piece that looks almost as if she would start speaking at any moment as she looks back at you.
Baron Engel
Dusty already has a MLP chopper from me.
Peruserofpieces
Absolutely gorgeous. The warmth of the lighting, the details of the bike, the brilliance of her mane and tail, and the beauty of her body—I love all of it. I think this is one of your best pieces ever, sir. I’m also surprised, I must admit—given the subject matter, I had always assumed this was to be a piece made for DustyKat. I suppose there’s a lesson for me to learn about making assumptions, heh.
Octavia Melody
She looks amazing. Great detail on the motorcycle.
