Wow, Katy applied herself and look what happened D:
Shock horror! Anyways.. I spent 10 hours livestreaming this, though I must admit.. I spent an hour of that in an appointment, and some time also for making dinner etc. So I will estimate I spent 8 to 8 and a half hours on this piece total.
Video can be seen here:
[link]So.. first things first. I did use a reference photo:
(next time I will find a white horse as a reference when drawing Dream because shading and figuring out what colors to use was a bit of a nightmare for me)
The bubble fish are recycled from this piece:
(thank you for the suggestion ~
parrotsnpineapple)
Dream is probably one of my all time favorite characters, even though I tend to favor Mystica over her from time to time. It is time to draw more of Dream, so hopefully we will get to see more of her soon..
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I love the colors.
The first thing I noticed about this, was that hind leg stretched out. Initially, I thought she was missing a hoof! It took me a bit to realize that there was leg feathering. So my first bit of advice would be to add a drop shadow of some sort to separate the feathering on that leg from the tail.
The second thing I noticed was the other hind leg; the one primarily in shadow. This might just be personal preference, so if you disagree feel free to ignore this advice. I'd like to see a more gradual shadow, instead of one flat color. Something darker up towards the butt. Also a little more darker muscle detail.
The last thing would probably be that heavy drop shadow behind Dream. It looks somewhat as if she's angled against a wall? I'm not sure if that was the desired effect or not. There's a really awesome trick to shadows that I can show you sometime; basically you can flatten the subject into one separate layer (ctrl alt shift E), make it black/a dark color, put a slight blur on it, and then use free transform to angle it appropriately. It's a good way to get a shadow that matches your subject. Not a perfect method, but a good one to start with.
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