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EqD ATG II - Day 15 - An Inquisitive Ponyby ~muffinshire

Fan Art / Cartoons & Comics / Digital / Movies & TV

My entry for day 15 of Equestria Daily's Artist Training Grounds. The brief was "draw a pony being inquisitive".

This comic started as the idea of having filly Twilight surreptitiously investigating Celestia's quarters at the school of magic, and the notion of telling a short story (without making use of word balloons) grew out of that. This was quite an ambitious task to take on, but one I did for a reason - I have a bad habit of dallying too long on my lineart, and this means pieces often take far longer than they should. I used my day 14 piece as a conscious attempt to work on this problem, breaking down the image into distinct areas (each of the six main figures, the background and the sky), and setting time limits for each. Doing a comic was a way to continue this, as it is naturally broken down into segments, though this time I didn't use time limits - just having the panels helped me gauge the progress.

I would like to have coloured this, but time ran out on me and I had to resort to my backup plan, some basic half-toning to set the mood. I really need to be careful I'm not biting off more than I can chew with these daily challenges! If I find the time later, I will revisit the piece and colour it.

~nayr513 Mar 24, 2013

Part of me can't help but think, what if the show actually had moments like this... honestly fan work like this does so much to add this beautiful nuance to some of the themes and ideas the show presents or only briefly touches upon.

~Eszra01 Jan 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

AWWWW! Thats so cute! Little Twiligh under Celestia wing makes me think of the pegasus scene in Fantasia with the white mother and her many multi colored babies!