[SFW] Artist's Group Chat

I deleted my webcomic . It was a thought choice.

@Mildgyth  
Could try having them looking at each other, whilst having the wind blowing their hair/tails/manes.

Simple lighting setup–the simplest one. Sunlight, clear sky, totally the absolute basic. I wasn’t trying anything creative with my lighting. But I am trying something with this piece here.  
 
Ambient light. Specifically: How it affects parts of the object that is NOT exposed to direct light. It’s a lot of fun. I found out I can get more creative with the colors in the shadows than I can in direct light. In the shadows, I can have all kinds of temperature and colors because they’re hit by the ambient light.
 
Watch the bottom of the white Sphere on the right and the pony’s white boots. I didn’t care how unrealistic it would get, I was just dumping colors of the blue from the sky, the orange from the ground, the red from her clothes and green from her tail just to see if–despite ALL these colors, I can still see white. For the most part, I actually can see white because I’ve tricked my mind into recognizing these colors as reflected light, instead of the natural colors of the object.
 
Same with her hood for example. If you sample the color on every pixel of it. You will barely get its base red color. Most of it are the yellow / bright orange of the sun or the blue / purple of the shadow. Yet you can tell what color her clothes is: red. Pretty cool!
 
Apologize if this topic has been covered before. The topic of lighting came up, so I thought yea, I’ll contribute.

@Twilight Schwifty  
I usually save my art, but if you’re truly upset about it, I guess it’s good that you’d delete it.

@Background Pony #0A42  
I have a folder in drive and all my pony art is in Derpibooru and on deviantart

Kali’s mom :D  

I just stumbled upon this “chat” thing. Three years!? Wowzers. I read the 3yr-old chat description, but uh… what do you guys really do here now?

@Swegmeiser  
We share art that we made/are making, ask for critiques and stuff. Ya know. Just talk about our art.

@Binkyt11  
Oh neato. I’ll share my current one when I get more of it done. It’s a profile of a beach sidewalk. It’s gonna be pretty bad but oh well.

@Swegmeiser  
Alright. As long as it follows this that’s guidelines, share away.

Drew some Dragon Prince fanart.
 

@TheHappySpaceman  
That background forest is impressive. Also good poses!

I think I’m improving a small bit  
 
I kinda love this a lot since it was made last week  
 
I’m getting better on commissions too

@tehwatever  
Thanks! The background and the reflection in the water were probably the two hardest parts.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Yeah:D the background forest looks very realistic. Like, you actually went and took a photo, and then use photoshop magic to “turn photo into painting”. That is itself a good technique to use and very valid, but if you really drew that background forest with just brush strokes then I salute you. That is amazing skills.

So, are the feet and the hands right? is there anything else i should fix?
 

@Mildgyth  
Certainly looks a lot less static than your earlier artwork. Nice work so far.
 
Can’t see anything that really needs altering here, unless you have the mother’s head turned a little towards the kid. It’s fine as it is though.

@40kponyguy
 
These are Bon Bon and Twist, by the way.

Leaked season 9 villain :P  

 
@Swegmeiser  
Discuss art, get critiques, get exposure, whatever you pretty much want to do :D

@Badumsquish  
Hahahahaha! Final Boss and Twilight will have to solo her because everyone else is busy.

Just trying out some bipedal pones.
 

@DrCool13  
Pose looks alright. You can tell he’s not floating, he has weight and he looks relaxed.

Finished it:
 
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Finished most of this yesterday. Wat do y’all think?
 

Look I did a thing :P