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Nomad Chpt. 1 ~ CuriosityMalik lifted his brush to the canvas again after depositing another wad of tobacco into his stout pipe which hung limply from the Side of his mouth. His lips pursed around the mouthpiece now and then to inhale the smoke, then spit it back out from the other side of his mouth. He mentally scolded his subject, knowing fully well that an outburst would accomplish nothing but scare the raven.

Malik would like to believe he had the patience required for his hobby, but he instead stamped on the grass and growled in frustration as the raven flapped its wings once and hopped to another patch of thin grass to dig for a snack. Reason number one why al

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This one was especially fun working with lighting.

*Concept and Original Lineart by the fantastic :iconjoey-darkmeat:
*Spike and Twilight belong to Hasbro
*Paint Tool Sai was used
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Critique by ~usernameirrelevant Feb 13, 2013, 8:58:25 PM
Let me begin by saying how adorable this is and that this critique only reflects how I feel about the coloring that you did on the work. As i'm not critiquing :iconjoey-darkmeat: at the moment for his sketch. I love the atmosphere you created for this piece, it's very fitting, (Is it odd for me to say that I feel that way right now working on the computer with only the glow of the screen to keep company?) Anyways, the warmer colors are very complimentary for the picture, the interior wood is also played with the same warm colors with gives a cozy feeling to the rest of the pic. Shadowing is great (with exception to one or two items I will list later, and it's me just being excessive on watch) Originality however, suffers in this pic, and gains its points from your color palette choice and work post creation as a sketch. (as well as your mane fixing) However, the only real critique I have for this is really two things. First off, (I love the shadowing) the shadowing however, does not seem to fully cover certain areas and I feel like i'm missing part of the portrait because of the single source of light.
I feel that some offsetting would be appropriate (lightening the whole of) so that the picture wouldn't feel so confined. It also leads the viewers eye off track from the main part of the portrait (The eye is lazy and therefore attracted to white or lighter spaces) And it also draws attention from spike. Who is a good part of the pic. He also feels a little left off because of this. The light also seems to lightly shrink in only one direction, but i'm willing to overlook it because it would take away from the picture because major parts would be lighted while others were not.
With all that said though I will say this. I would argue that this is a difficult picture to color and light, you have only one visible light source and few shadows from the original. For what you had, I would say you did masterful, and if I were in your position, I would not be able to do as good a job with this pic as you have done. Great work.
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~CommanderEX Feb 25, 2013
Thats our Twilight in her full glory.
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~Cipher-Text Feb 23, 2013
Spike has his rape face on...

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Mood: Love ~MADMAN03 Feb 17, 2013
Spike you gentle dragon you!
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~Jelenadbz Feb 15, 2013  Student Filmographer
cute
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*Blackvegetable Feb 14, 2013
Awwww... what a sweet moment! :aww:
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~621Chopsuey Feb 14, 2013
D'awww
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Mood: Love *TryHardBrony Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I really like what you did with this. :) Excellent work! :D
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=Ephemurai Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you :]
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*TryHardBrony Feb 13, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hey, its no problem. :)
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~SurfPenguin Feb 10, 2013
It's long been a theory of mine that every character in the ponyverse is 'attuned' to one of the Elements of Harmony. From episode 1 it's been obvious that Spike's Element is Loyalty.
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