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  • 372 weeks
    Stupidity.

    Cross-post from Tumblr;

    Just a sketch.

    He’s supposed to vaguely resemble a humanized Dusk Shine, and the colors allude to that. The image is an abstraction for certain types of anxiety I tend to feel quite a lot.

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  • 408 weeks
    Sketching and the creative process.

    Sketching and the creative process.

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  • 411 weeks
    Recent Tumblr updates!

    So, there have been a few new posts to the Ask Asylum Twilight tumblr lately. A message from one of my readers via Patreon made me realize how foolish I was to let the tumblr slide in to inactivity in the way that it did. So I've been getting back in to the swing of things with it.

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  • 417 weeks
    New commission for Rated Ponystar!

    I've been working on this one for a while, and it is finally done!

    Rated Ponystar commissioned this comic a while back. Featuring Applejack and Rara/Coluratura. Looks like some AppleRatura is in their future!

    Enjoy!

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  • 418 weeks
    A few photographers that everyone should see pt. 1. Houses and flying plates.

    I really should blog more often. Anyway, since imgur is no longer an option for posting my own stuff on here, I'll just have to talk about something else until I settle on a better solution. So, I thought I would share some of my favorite photographers, because photography is an art form that needs more proper appreciation.

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Dec
24th
2015

A recent commission. · 12:54am Dec 24th, 2015

So, this was a recent commission for SPark.

I was asked to draw a picture of a changeling with a cutie mark fighting Chrysalis. I decided to have fun with this by doing some nice, dynamic poses and trying to make Chrysalis look menacing and feral. Animalistic. I was asked to include herr throne, and since there is no real solid canon design for it, I decided to make it look as wrong and grotesque as possible.

The image, lineart, and process images are below the break. If you don't like images relating (loosely) to trypophobia, or if you hate mud dauber nests, you might want to skip this one.



The throne was inspired by H.R. Giger of Alien fame. The conical columns on the front are inspired by two things; cream horn pastries...

And mud dauber nests;

The holes near the top were inspired by trypophobia.

When you see those holes, and the holes in the cones, think of what sort of things might be in that throne...

Here is the lineart;

notice the lack of wings. I initially forgot to add them. I didn't add them until after the image was colored. They were drawn on a separate piece of paper and scanned, then added in photoshop.

Anyhow, this was the first sketch I did;

Just to show the client the basic pose/composition.

This was followed up with a more detailed sketch, primarily to express Chrysalis' face.


This was an in-progress image of the final drawing.


The primary detail of the back of the throne was influenced heavily by a specific Giger painting. The one on the cover of Biomechanics (which, unfortunately, I do not know the name of).


The final drawing was done on a piece of 16 x 20 inch illustration board, with Copic multiliners. It was colored in Photoshop.

I'm pretty satisfied with how this turned out. So, for those who haven't seen this image, there you have it!

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