BaronEngel
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Software Pirate
🕑 Added 2021-09-23 00:01:20 +0000 UTCTechnically this was suppose to be the 5th drawing that I was going to start during my most recent Picarto stream. In celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th this was an all pirate theme stream.
For the final hour I was taking requests from folks in the chat. I got many, many good requests but 2 stood out to me. One was of an anthropomorphic, pirate Fluttershy and baby kraken Link.
The other request was for Sunset Shimmer as a software pirate. My original plan was to work for half an hour on Flutters and switch to Sunny. However I lost track of the time and decided to just focus on shy horse, and I said I would work on Sunset after the stream.
One of the things I was taught when I was learning illustration was to go for the simplest composition when possible. Eliminate unnecessary elements, components, and material. You wanted to distill down the message to its most basic level when possible.
For this piece I decided to portray Sunset as she was at the start of the original Equestria Girls movie when she was still the villain at the Canterlot High School. So I put her in a The Pirate Bay baby doll tee shirt.
Comments
Ayumi Silverfox
You tend to nail expressions that just by themselves give you the idea there is a story just waiting to be told. This one is a prime example of nailing a theme & drawing the viewer in to ask more. What was it they got? Was it a leaked release of a game not yet released? Or is it one where they claimed it couldn’t be pirated an that’s a smile of sweet success? Or maybe it’s both and our dear Sunset Shimmer is showing that, yes, she’s a pirate and proud. :) Very nicely done!
