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Love Conquers All

Per popular request, a polished version of the kiss!

Guns for Bugs

Very unusual WIP for incoming strip about Key and Berzie set in The Greater Flame universe.

Those are  Gryphonnians  weapons: top left the Thompson Annialator,  Steyr-Hahn m12/p16 and Fro...

The Shadow Shard Page 79 WIP

Kiss! 

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I usually wait 2 days before posting TSS on DA, but I hope you don't mind this page will be an exception, since it is (coincidentally) good for the Hearts and Hooves Day  :-)

The Shadow Shard - Deleted scenes #3

More deleted scenes. This scene was one of the first I wrote for TSS. I wanted to include Cadance in this story, but eventually cut those pages out to save time. 

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Panel 1

Cadance in Flurry’s room. Spike carries box of baby supplies. SA and Flurry are sleep in the BG.

Cadance...

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KABLAST.

Don't Let The Dopple Bite

It's this time of the month - comic strip for Cobalt! ^_^ 

(To be honest, I'm often the last person to understand jokes, memes and such @@)

Winter wip 5-6

I completely forgot about this one! Here's the final lineart and flat colours. 

Initially I wanted to use painterly style for this pic, but it's probably better (and much easier to be honest) to use "cut & grad" style of rendering, that is with a lasso tool and soft brush.  

Catra (She-Ra And The Princesses of Power)

I grew up watching He-Man and the Masters of the Universe  and loved Netflix reboot of its spin-off She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.  So I took a short break from ponies  to draw a couple of characters from the show!

Here's the first one - Catra.

The Shadow Shard: Deleted Scenes #2

This scene was meant to be "show not tell" Starlight growing jealous over Twilight and Sunburst. However, I didn't want to dwell on this subplot too much and this scene was replaced by a short dialogue.

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Starlight ent...

The Shadow Shard: Deleted Scenes #1

I dug out my first  Shard draft from 2017 and thought it might be fun to share with you some "deleted scenes". I'm thinking about turning one of those into bonus pages for the "special edition" issue in the distant future. In th...

Rarity, Get Your Sword! (Part 12)

 Another exciting chapter of the epic Rarity v Crab saga. 

Sketched and written by doubleWbrothers, inked by Pony-Berserker with my colours & lettering :-D

Rarity, Get Your Sword! (part 12) - flats

Currently colouring next RGYS page! :-) Now that the flat colours are done, I can focus on adding shades & visual effects (I already started adding the latter) and finally - the dialogues!

[Commission] Repairing

Finally, I have finished "Fixing Smarty" commission. This is the final one, but I wanted to share with you one of the rejected versions, with higher contrast and shine:

Inkscape + Photoshop.

Fixing Smarty wip3

Shadows & more details now added.  Still missing is contrast of light and shadow that will define the focal points.

Fixing Smarty wip2

Very "rough" vectored page with flat colours.  Next step is to change Velvet's expression per request & start working on details like tapering lines.  (Bezier tool in Inkscape creates lines that are not "pointy" at the end, so this ink-like effect needs to be added separately for each stroke).

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Bugs

An overdue reward for Cobalt the Unicorn starring his OC Dopple plus Berzie and horse!Key ( for Kallenin who likes this form better ).

Bug strip wip

Working on another Patreon reward!

Summary of Art 2018

This is my 4th annual "Summary of Art" post!

2018 has been the busiest and most insane year of my life in general, as I was away from home almost 9 months.

I have set myself many art-oriented  goals for 2018 and reached some of them, most notably I started to draw & paint daily without vectors following online courses I coul...

Winter wip 3-4

More Winter WIPs, including lineart I did in Photoshop. Now that Adobe introduced "smoothing" feature it's finally possible to make a decent inking in PS!

But I'm actually working on other things right now -- a long overdue commission and another bug strip with Dopple, Key and Berzie :-D

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What is Spike trying to protect?

Next page is actually two splash pages combined and I'm super excited about them :-) 

Winter wip 1-2

Started new painting project! Here are two sketches done in ArtFlow.

Literal Ripoff

A while ago I have promised Caustizer one of his OCs ( here Prince Rigel ) will play a part in my comics.  Based (obviously) on https://www.deviantart.com/pony-berserker/art/Literal-Changeling-609708521 :-D

Self-Portrait

It was funny little experiment.  I can see how painting with grayscale first makes things easier: I could focus only on shapes and values and worry about colours much later. However the usual problem (for a beginner) is ending up with something much darker than intended. I think I'll stick to the more "traditional" approach.

The Shadow Shard Page 67

The real Sunburst.

New laptop

My new laptop arrived today and I'm currently intalling programs & syncing data. As you can see, I struggle with cable management :P

Quick Update

My laptop has died - and I'm looking for a replacement. I'll resume normal activity ASAP - TSS, Key portrait, commission and bug comics are on their way!

K.

Self-portrait wip5

Nice and smooth. Time to apply colour :-)

Self-portrait wip4

I have decided to use a different workflow for this pic. It's rendering  monochrome illustration first and applying colours on so called glazing layers at the end. Next step - blending.

Self-portrait wip3

Very flat colours. Next step: shadows!