BaronEngel
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Feel the way I do
🕑 Added 2021-11-30 02:04:27 +0000 UTCThe second drawing I started during my most recent Picarto stream. On the morning of the stream I became aware of this short PMV Feel the way I do Link. In particular I loved the design they had for Twilight Sparkle.
Now normally I don't draw ponies with poofy chest hair, but I liked the look it gave Twilight in this video so I kept it for this piece.
Also since I was working with a piece of 8.5" x 11" paper I was presented with a design challenge. I wanted to show all of the Mane Six. However with the exception of Twilight I wanted all of the winged characters in the behind the earth ponies and unicorns so the wings of the pegasus ponies wouldn't obscure their friends.
If I'd been working in my studio I would've done some compositional thumbnails before starting on piece like this. However in this case I came back from a 5 minute break during which time I decided I was going to draw this piece. I looked down at the piece of paper and thought. "Right. What am I going to do for this drawing?" A bit of mental video popped up in my head and I went with it.
I started by laying Twilight out first and then started working in her friends behind her. However when I got to RD I was presented with 2 options. One put her standing behind Rarity and Pinkie where she'd be very obscured, or two put her flying above her friends but further back. I mentally considered possibility of having part of her peering in at some odd angle from around the edges of the paper but rejected those options. So I put RD in flying/dancing in the background. Not perfect but for a piece of compositional spontaneous art it works.
Comments
Jaroslav Pešek
Or you could put RD above them horizontaly.
Baron Engel
I tried that but then it looked like a tiny RD sitting on Rarity's leg.
Ookami88
Marvelous, you can simply see the dynamic of the characters and their movements. I honestly would love to see something like that with anthro characters.
Bernard Doove
This is such a fun piece! Without a solid reference, RD could equally be a tiny pony in front of the others! If part of her went behind Rarity's leg, that would have fixed the perspective.
Peruserofpieces
This is one of my absolute favorite pieces you’ve ever made. There’s so much to see here, and everypony looks so comfortable in their own bodies. I love it so very, very much. ❤️
Octavia Melody
Amazing work as always Baron.
