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For newer watcher’s information, I looked to start a comic series some time back. Did not really go anywhere beyond the first half of a page, which you can see here. I have finally gotten around to updating the second half of the page as well, and the full page is updated.
 
These things are hugely time consuming and I don’t know how often I can continue them. Just completing it took me way outside my weekly allocated time for paints, and even then at a lower quality. (Note that the first attempt each panel was its own environment piece I could spent 2-3 weeks on. The first half of the page took close to 6 weeks total to finish. Comics in general are always hard for me, due to layout, character designs, preserving environment layout and color, text and speech bubbles…yeah.
 
I updated this piece since it was part of my current weekly experiments to push and see how much i can accomplish within my allocated time frames. I won’t be touching this in awhile, and the next page, while i have detailed in linework already, will not be done anytime soon.
 
But i do intend to get to them over time. Future updates will have links to pages etc

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redweasel
Duck - "someone befriended them, saved them, coaxed them out of their shell, and showed them that sex is nothing to be afraid of. I’m kind of envious of that rape victim"

Fuzzbutt
spectacular shading, fantastic scenery, expressive faces, well telegraphed motion, but… you really need to work on your wings. what are they, dragonflies? how would those things even flap? they look like they’d snap like twigs in a stiff breeze. and are her wings backwards in the last panel? longer feathers, and shorter wing arms, unless you are trying to be realistic about physics, in which case you can assume ponies are about as big as sparrows, and then use longer feathers and shorter wing arms. each wing should be about as long as the body bean at most, and feathers should be much longer at the end than they are close to the body, in a fan shape.
 
but uh… I’m sure you’re aware of that, and making me cringe with the flimsy ungainliness of those wings is inentional. I absolutely love everything else, especially that gold inlay, the sunlight on the water, and the poor pegasus’s alarmed expression.
 
uh… I wonder if you could maybe have scenes without all that swirly, bumpy, engraved woodwork. it might be less time consuming that way.
kleptomage
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
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Ah, it’s been over a year since I’ve seen new art from Simbaro. I enjoy their flowing organic lines and the sense of the otherworldly conveyed with light and shading.