BaronEngel
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Starlight Glimmer Quick Color
🕑 Added 2017-09-04 03:34:54 +0000 UTC After spending most of the day recovering from last nights Picarto stream I am finally getting around to posting this. I want to thank and for going through that ordeal with me. Note to folks. Where we were yesterday was hotter than Death Valley California. 110F At the start of the stream. Even the A/C in the studio could only blunt that so much! When I was at Crunchyroll Expo I had several people inquire about my colored pencil technique and since I hadn't done a colored pencil stream in while I figured it was time. I also gave myself a challenge of seeing how much of the piece I could complete during the stream. Which I will get to in more detail further in this posting. Also I decided to tackle a character who I've never really drawn before.
So I went with Starlight Glimmer. My initial idea was to do Sunset Shimmer; however I then remembered the study work I'd for the Spitfire Wonderbolt piece and realized that Sunset had many of the colors that were prone too bleeding when lots of solvent is used. I was going to have to work fast and loose and if I did that Sunset piece I'd have color bleed issues. So I changed characters.
Allowing for the initial slide show, intermissions, and chatting with folks I had about 3 hours to work with. In that time I effectively finished all the major elements of the piece. However there were certain small details that I was unable to complete. This appears to have caused consternation amongst the audience that I did not notice in the chat until after the stream was done, but I did get several notes ranging from general confusion to why I didn't do something to being rather terse with me. Which kind of blunted some of the euphoria I had for pulling off this accomplishment. I will not name people but here's why I didn't tackle certain final details during the stream.
The main question was I didn't do certain highlights to show that Glimmy's lower legs were wet during the stream. Also why did I not put things like white foam splash in the water. The reason are as follows:
1. Did not have my white gouache with me which was necessary to render those effects properly. I often do those as the last details in the piece.
2. Even if I did have my gouache with me it was too hot in the studio to work with the material in a satisfactory fashion. The paint would've been drying in the palette about as fast I could work with.
3. Doing the fine line detail finishing working can take a far amount of time. I made a decision that it was more important to get as much area covered with color than trying to do fine details.
4. This was never intended to be a finished masterpiece this was nothing more than a really well done color study. So often I don't worry about details like that.
Because I may offer this piece for sale or donate it to some charity auction I did take the time this morning and spent exactly 1 more hour putting in some of those highlight details in since I was in a much better working environment. Do note just doing these small details took 1 hour. That's why I skipped over them during the stream.
If none of us replied to folks commenting about this during the stream it was due to mental overload on my part trying to complete the piece, or folks just dealing with the sub-optimal conditions of the studio that evening.
Comments
Sonny Starbrite
Wow, this looks amazing Baron! Enjoyed watching you create the magic.
Baron Engel
I am very happy with the results. Also it was a useful test to see how fast I could do something. It's easy to think you can pull something off, but this was a real world test under less than optimal conditions. Wouldn't want to do this all the time, but it's handy know to in case of an emergency.
Skyline
With the time you had, you did an amazing job! I for one understand, the devil is in the details...which is why they always take so long to do.
Webster Leone
If it goes up for sale I want to start a donation drive to get it to DWK. xD
