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Xerxes for war_pony

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Xerxes the War Pony for war_pony of Pony Island.

This was done in exchange for a renewal on Pony Island (there is a second piece I need to start on shortly). One digital and one real-media piece were requested, and since I recently bought some Bristol paper for the first time... well...

I read some (more) tutorials on coloring with colored pencils, studied some of my favorite colored pencil pony art (*cough*:iconnaiefae:*cough*), pulled out a wide selection of Prismacolors which I found still didn't seem wide enough, and set to work. I'd say it took five to six hours in total, and I'm sure plenty of that was spent sharpening broken Prismacolors and trying to decide if I wanted to do gold or silver armor. :P

In the end I wish she'd had more depth (darks/lights), and the scan sort of flattened her out even more. But at least it kept the vibrancy of the color; she is very, very bright red. Red. I'll probably be seeing it in my sleep!

Xerxes the war pony is © war_pony of Pony Island (:iconthe-lancastrian:)
This artwork is © K. Hanning and FoRLoRN MiSTS
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Aww, just look at all that careful textured shading. It's a great piece even without, but that shading makes him pop!