"I saw her there on the battlefield, standing among the dead after she had broke our ranks with that ungodly strength... And I... I... felt an odd urge to brush the pony's hair."
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So I seem to be on a role with drawing! Or at least drawing and coloring something everyday. Hopefully I can keep it up for a whole week.
Today and yesterday I was drawing armor! Yes! This is a exciting thing.
Yesterday I was doing a Ghulam reading a newspaper. I kinda of lost focus from the shoulders downward. And he lost his lower body in the war, now he spends his days out in the yard, reading newspapers. I need to do a full body week again. And work on anatomy, yes I know. But honestly I just drew a doodle and started to color it, I wanted to get to the coloring part faster. Next time I'll take my time and get the anatomy down right and make a full figure.
Today I drew a spontaneous OC pony! Trapped in a strange land of war, she is forced to join a free company and fight for her life(!) Over the years she has abandoned her name from her time in her happy pony homeland, now most call her the remorseful warrior, Valkyrie!
Action! Drama! Explosions!
Alright enough stupidity.
I wanted to draw a pony with armor on. Put some lines together and here we are. The armor is based loosely on Gothic horse armor, but at the same time I wanted to do fancy Italian parade style armor, especially with the helmets and stuff. Hence the helmet with fish-dragon-demon. I put the Holy Roman two headed eagle on her for a standard, and some somewhat random coat of arms for the armor near her foreleg. I wanted to do a painted pony, brown and white, but you can't see it as she's wearing a lot of trash anyway!
Things I learned,
Where to begin? I built off of the lessons I learned on contrast between light and dark and took it to the next level and applied it to the saturation of colors. Shadows having greater saturation while colors in the light having less. This may seem elementary, as usual, but this concept was quite a break through. I finally learned why my earlier drawings colorwise didn't seem to *pop*, that's because I wasn't giving any thought to saturation. It was like I was ignoring a whole dimension of color (bare with the silly phrase), only dealing with colors and how light or dark they were. Thus giving them a flatter 2d look on the color spectrum. If that makes sense. Day 76 was when I started to realize this and today (Day 77) when I begin to draw I applied what I had learned to draw a new random birthed pony OC.
The theme for these two days was armor and I got some practice coloring metals. I like armor. I'm a ye medieval type guy and I love me some armor type stuff.
I learned that metals have sharp shiny highlights, it's best to use a color very close to white for it. If the metal is in sunlight large parts of the shiny iron armor will probably be pretty close to white. Thus, while Day 77 is the stronger colored picture by far, I believe that the newspaper reading ghulam feels more like he is out in direct sunlight. Out there in his yard, drinking coffee and reading newspaper. Anyway, this is because of parts of his helmet, which are almost half almost white, while the other is darkly shaded. At least I think so. Ignore the rest of it's body it is pretty bad. I don't know what time of day it will have to be to get the sunlight to be like that. While on the other hand we have Valkryie, the shieldish parts of her armor could be more whitish in the highlights and they could be bigger. If that makes sense.