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Twilight's First Day #26 panel 2

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Here's a higher-resolution version of panel 2 from Twilight's First Day #26. In the first draft of the comic, I was going to cheat this scene by having a low perspective of the dining hall, meaning I could get away with drawing detailed ponies only close to the viewer and drawing the more distant and obscured ones as mere silhouettes. I soon realised this was selling myself short, and wrecking the impact of Twilight and Moondancer entering a very busy dining hall, so I had a rethink. I have strong memories from my childhood of looking at comics with large crowd scenes, and spending many long minutes examining the figures and what they were doing, so this is my "tribute" to such scenes.

This was an epic undertaking to say the least - there are, by my count, 59 distinct characters in this view, all with unique designs, and this single panel probably took as long to draw as the entire rest of the comic! So here it is at higher resolution, showing off all the little details that you might not be able to see so well in the actual comic. Obviously, the blank areas in the top left and bottom right would have been covered by panels, so there is no detail there.
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