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Hello everypony, I’m back! Nothing lewd this time, but a drawing test I’m pretty happy with! With my last drawing of Corymbia, I noticed a lot of issues both during the making of the image, and after posting it. Namely, the colours were too pointed, and too squished together, which resulted in them looking yucky and having certain corners not fill properly!
For this one, I experimented with widening the gaps between colours, and also building around things like the smile and eyelashes to make them, instead of building them in. I had a bit of help with the flowers from an artist friend (And also totally used that bottom one to cover up an area I was struggling with making look nice, shhh, it’s a secret). I also had no idea if Yellowstar’s eyes were yellow, or purple, so… uhh… yay, she got both!
Anyway! Here we have a stained-glass headshot of best pony, Yellowstar! This image is absolutely not a memetic hazard! You should read her book!
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Very interesting style, I like it.
On the other hand, flowers have really appealing shapes and shades, and I find that one flower surely does deserve a spot to be on foreground to draw more attention. It also brings contrast with different geometry and colors. So I do not find it oversized
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I definitely do appreciate it! Though, it’s certainly not as spotless as I’d want it to be. The bottom flower is oversized to cover a patch of her mane I just couldn’t twist together right, and the other side of her mane doesn’t curl the way I wanted it to (it looks like she has a fringe, instead of just bending and coiling around like Celestia’s mane ;w;). Still, the test was more about the gaps between each fragment, which aside from the mouth, I think ended rather nice!
Oh, apologies. Or actually, you can take it as compliment 😁. I don’t know what made that feeling, maybe just so precise and spotless 😝.
Though, now that you mention it, the smile is throwing me off a bit. I think it may be how the jaw is positioned, actually. Looks a little bit like a wooden dummy with a moving jaw. I think curving the fragment behind it a bit more would make it look less wooden.
Nope! My goal with the smile was to try to create it by positioning the surrounding shapes, instead of making the smile a shape itself. It didn’t feel right having it end in the middle of a fragment, instead of connecting to another gap at the back, and having it spread too thin just made it look like another crack. It’d probably look better open-mouthed, but I’m not really confident on that part of anatomy yet. If you’ve got any tips for my next piece to make it look better, I am always open to critique!
Edited because: Dang smily faces not working!
Is the base image of the mosaic generated with ai? The smile just feels a bit ai-y.