Crystal - Twilight Sparkle

[moduz94 78]

This had to be made!!!

Seriously I couldn't resist to the fact that she is soooo cute with the her crystal mane, tomorrow I'll start to to other mane 6 characters If I can :3

 

[Mushy Giant Friend 206]

Blimey Moduz, this is beautiful! How did you get so good at drawing ponies?

No criticism here that I can think of, it's just perfect! Well done!

[Motion Spark 7,811]

Rarity looks better wow this drawing it's pretty good BUT

her body is TOO curve and her hooves are too thick, the shading in on the body is very poor, maybe if you smooth it a little bit it would look better, I loved how you drew her face her mane and tail, perfect!

 

though I agree with the color selection for the background, it needs more work, good job overall

[MorningFlash 214]

wow *-* I have to admit, she looked hot when she had that crystal mane for those few short minutes in the premiere, I have to say, this is a pretty good take on her, credits to the artist.

[moduz94 78]

Rarity looks better wow this drawing it's pretty good BUT

her body is TOO curve and her hooves are too thick, the shading in on the body is very poor, maybe if you smooth it a little bit it would look better, I loved how you drew her face her mane and tail, perfect!

 

though I agree with the color selection for the background, it needs more work, good job overall

 

the skin is supposed to look like that bro, it's the crystal effect

 

I originally shaded her like normal, then added the "crystal skin" as an effect.

 

the background was more of a test....well sort of...I wasn't sure of what colors I could use so I went totally berserk and threw all I could think in that, again it's fun to try new stuff so I always do it, thanks for the heads-up!! and thanks for the compliments, I'm really proud of mah Twy :3

[Motion Spark 7,811]

I originally shaded her like normal, then added the "crystal s

I never mentioned anything about a "crystal effect", in fact I did saw the white spots you put into the drawing to make it look more crystaly, but I was talking about the shading, the darker tone of purple you used to shade her coat.

[Dusty Soul 2,614]

That is one nice drawing. I personally love how the background looks behind her. I can't say anything wrong about it, so yeah, you did a great job.

[Pix3M 607]

Crystals are highly reflective and thus deserves much MUCH stronger highlights than what we have here.

 

Rarity looks better wow this drawing it's pretty good BUT

her body is TOO curve and her hooves are too thick, the shading in on the body is very poor, maybe if you smooth it a little bit it would look better, I loved how you drew her face her mane and tail, perfect!

 

though I agree with the color selection for the background, it needs more work, good job overall

 

Shading doesn't need to be 'smoothed out', whatever that means. I find the shading extremely blurry if anything. The shading looks a bit sloppy as there's a bit of unshaded areas in between outlines and the shaded area. I believe good shading has more to do with darkening the right places, and I can point out a few places which should be shaded.

 

If anything, the shading needs to be much much sharper to convey clear-cut surfaces like a crystal. Blurring the edges instead conveys something else that's rather smooth and lumpy.

 

I also don't think her body is too curvy. I think her chest needs to be rounded out more instead of rounding out the belly. Can't find a reference to double check how show-style draws bodies at this perspective though.

 

Also, here's a caveat when shading ponies... it's explained in something I've written very recently, and I'm calling it 'slant-face syndrome' for convenience. So, I wouldn't say the face is perfect per se as there's a mistake that seems largely unoticed in show-accurate faces in 3/4ths which you can easily reveal if you try to shade it. http://fav.me/d5lbq5e

Edited November 17, 2012 by Pix3M

[moduz94 78]

Crystals are highly reflective and thus deserves much MUCH stronger highlights than what we have here.

 

 

 

Shading doesn't need to be 'smoothed out', whatever that means. I find the shading extremely blurry if anything. The shading looks a bit sloppy as there's a bit of unshaded areas in between outlines and the shaded area. I believe good shading has more to do with darkening the right places, and I can point out a few places which should be shaded.

 

If anything, the shading needs to be much much sharper to convey clear-cut surfaces like a crystal. Blurring the edges instead conveys something else that's rather smooth and lumpy.

 

I also don't think her body is too curvy. I think her chest needs to be rounded out more instead of rounding out the belly. Can't find a reference to double check how show-style draws bodies at this perspective though.

 

Also, here's a caveat when shading ponies... it's explained in something I've written very recently, and I'm calling it 'slant-face syndrome' for convenience. So, I wouldn't say the face is perfect per se as there's a mistake that seems largely unoticed in show-accurate faces in 3/4ths which you can easily reveal if you try to shade it. http://fav.me/d5lbq5e

 

very interesting, since I love to draw I actually observe for a long time a thing before even trying to reproduce it, and I must say I have noticed that "error" that you mentioned, in fact the muzzle of the ponies is the only thing that keeps giving me trouble when I draw them, just because of that.

 

also, I'd like to point out that I wasn't really aiming for a show-accurate twilight, but more like how I perceive her as cute, for myself.

with that in mind, I have simply drawn her in a way that I like her, while still mantaining her figure and appearance, without creating something else.

 

finally, the so called "crystal-effect" that I was talking about it's just....well...2 words for me...In the show they get to have that effect for like....10 seconds??? we don't actually get to know what kind of effect is...if their coat becomes stiff as a crystal or it's just an appearance thing....so in doubt I decided to add just some sprinkles here and there AND then blurry out all the shade with water and random light effects that would spread around her coat, as far as I know crystals are not predictable when reflecting light so with that in mind adding the fact that her entire coat could be cristaly that would create a massive concussion of lighting effects that would just blow your mind, that might explain why the effect itself is like that in the show.

 

I just came up with an effect similar to that wich I liked, I don't know about you guys but when I do theese kind of works I only think about stuff like Cezanne, Van Gogh and Impressionism artists, they didn't care about rules or how stuff should be made, they just did stuff like they saw it.

 

the way I see it it's not about how close to show-accurate you want to get or how good you want it to be for others.....If I create something I want to give the people a glimpse of how I perceive what I see and how do I represent it, it's not meant to be anything...it's just the emotion that I had when I saw EP1-2 of season 3 that made me do this, just my passion that made me jump to the conclusion: "I need to do this...my way!"

 

sorry for the long-story, I just wanted to clarify some stuff :3

 

I never mentioned anything about a "crystal effect", in fact I did saw the white spots you put into the drawing to make it look more crystaly, but I was talking about the shading, the darker tone of purple you used to shade her coat.

 

so you thought the crystal effect were only the white spots??? Eenope!! XD

Edited November 18, 2012 by moduz94