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NATG - Day 3 - Pony with a prop

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EQD Newbie Artist Training Ground day 3 theme, Pony with a prop (chariot should be okay prop?)

Well, I couldn't leave pegasus pony out of my drawings, after I drew both earth and unicorn ones earlier, tough this also has another earth pony with her... from looks of it, she doesn't enjoy flying on chariot, I image her friend went and did some stunt without warning and now says jokingly something like "That was fun, lets do it again" to passangers horror....

I really liked how lines/inking turned out on this one, also happy with expressions for them ponies.

There was several things I didn't really like on this one, all focused around coloring phase. First was pegasus color scheme, I wanted to try bit more exotic one compared to my earlier days, but couldn't settle one that pleased my eyes as all that did were too similiar to earlier days, thus ending with kind of awful greenish with purplish mane... Maybe I should look for some tips for that before tomorrows theme. Also as I finally started coloring, my choise of inking that sketch I made of this (partly because unlike earlier ones, this wasn't as cleaned up), caused this seem extremly flat for some reason and my attempts at shading to give it some "shape" ended horribly. Third was again background, tried to get bit of clouds back there, but they seem to just disappear to rest of sky. Finally something came up irl, that made me had to finish this faster than I would have liked, so having to submit this like this, instead of being able to work on it some more before "offical" deadline (thus not being able to fix those problems I mentioned above). Also because of that, I might not be able to participate to NATG with these colored works, due to time limitations in following days, but still aiming to at least get sketch versions submitted if nothing else. But don't worry, planning to continue with coloring my submissions once things get bit calmer

Also somehow feeling that I kind of went backwards with this in learning progress, compared to day 1 and 2... oh well, maybe tomorrows theme will go bit better :)
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Sokolas's avatar
Did you draw ponies before t his NATG event? Your works are really impressive.
As for the colors... First, threre're no vividly coloured ponies in the show, all of them have somewhat pastel colors. They're usually desaturated. It is also rather common for the coats and manes of background ponies in the show to have the same or pretty close Hue, with different saturation and value. So you may try to take the color of your pony's coat, make it darker or lighter and paint the hair.You can also add some colored stripes to the hair, to make it more interesting.