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Updated version: https://derpibooru.org/images/2391686#comments
It’s the final entry for Equestria Daily’s Artist Training Grounds! The prompt was: “Draw a pony celebration.”
The best part of celebrations is cake! I decided to twist the prompt a bit and draw Pinkie Pie helping prepare a cake for the celebration since I think she’d enjoy the preparation as much as the party itself.
Originally I drew Pinkie Pie into a stock photo I found of someone decorating a cake, but given how small she was I decided to put in some more effort so I redrew the rest of the scene as well with some very heavy referencing.
Resources used:
Stock photo of cake + chef by Gustavo Fring
Hand reference by SenshiStock
https://derpibooru.org/images/2391686
Edited
Thanks for the suggestions! I agree the reference is too distant/low-res for the hand, I had a hard time finding a reference that was both the right angle and had a free-to-use license. (I was initially considering just photoshopping it into the image, but ended up painting over it.) If you have suggestions for good places to get stock, I’d definitely be interested since DeviantArt has made filtering way harder in Eclipse.
Citing references or brushes usually depends on the terms of use of the resources. In this case the images probably didn’t require it as far as I can tell, but I wanted to err on the side of caution/politeness since I traced some of the basic shapes directly from them (and then free-handed the shading an texture on top).
I took a picture of my hand in the same pose, and yeah it can look very similar to that. My guess is the lighting angle / the addition of the darkness around the edge of the hand, skewing the perspective, even if the structure is correct.
The reference you used is a little too distant to use for what you were trying to accomplish, IMO.
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Also, you don’t need to cite your references or brushes if all you’re doing is using them as references or tools.
Edited
Oh… Well that’s a bit unfortunate. The pinkie finger was rotated like that in the reference image I based the hand on. >_<
I like anthro mice.
I wanna see little mousey Pinkies now.
The (weirdly rotated/sticking out btw) pinky looks like a penis on thumbnail.
>_< I think I’m missing the connection. What’s the thumbnail incorrectly look like? Do I want to know?