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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I also think the lines on the exterior, especially around the legs and plot are a little too thin. They could easily double in width.
Finally, the cyan blue on the cutie mark is a completely jarring transition and doesn't fit with the established scheme. A deep gold colour would look vastly better in my opinion.
That said, I do like the mane and tail colouration though I am honour bound to warn you not to get too addicted to gradients
Take care!
And I know that too, but I find I prefer the lighter line-weight. It also helps to hide the fact that I have still to learn how to get the lines to taper to a point. And at the very least, it makes it less jarring.
As for the cutie mark... That's not my fault. The colours I chose fit better, but the person who made the request asked me to change it to blue. I would have preferred something in a gold or red. Or a yellow that looked gold against the light grey. I liked it better the way I had it before I made that change.
Yes. I do plan to keep gradients down to those where it is appropriate. Though it is hard to resist.
And I shall take care. You make sure to do likewise.
What program are you using for these? If it's SAI the option you want is the 'weight' function in linework. If it's not, you're on your own.
I had a feeling that would be the case, but I would also make the point that sometimes it's important to argue for your artistic integrity!
I found that the best way to break myself of the gradients habit was to use a paint tool that didn't have 'em, forcing me to learn how to engineer a similar effect through the blur tool. Directly lead to pieces like this: [link] , which while similar in intended function to a gradient demonstrates a lot more control over where the shadows fall.
Inkscape because I'm cheap. It's an easy enough function to use. But having the lines taper like they do in the show is something completely different and exceedingly complicated from what I've been able to ascertain.
I know that. But I also respect that when a person makes a request, they have a certain idea in mind and it usually only takes me a minute to change the colour of something.
Unfortunately, shading remains beyond me. I usually only use gradients for the eyes anyway, except for a couple (literally) of manes and that one pony who was a paladin.
Eventually, I will learn the whole shading thing.
Also, thanks for favouriting.