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Arrkhal — Derpy with a kitty

Published: 2012-01-05 00:38:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1792; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 75
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Description This waz a request froms , for use as a cover for one of his screenplays. I need to practice skies and non-pony animalz some more, so I figured why not? Normally, I'd be too lazy to do anything but jittery linework and sloppy cel-shading for a free request.

I did decide to make it a speedpainting practice, though, as I'm still really trying to improve my speed. But I went way over time. After 1 hour, all I had done was the background and about 85% of Derpy other than her mane and tail, which were still just flat color. And no cat! I forgot it right from the start, oops. So it ended up taking 2 hours instead, plus some extra time working on and off, to touch up some mistakes. Still faster than usual, at least.

What I really need to do faster is my linework. Only reason I was able to do this so fast is because I had an old, unused, mostly-done sketch to start with. That shaved off at least an hour. I sketch sooo sloooowwwww.

Random self-criticism on this one: edge-highlighting is so lazy and always looks wrong, but it fools like 99% of people. I try to avoid doing it, but this was intended as a speedpaint, so that's what you get.
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Comments: 16

Pepsi-CoIa [2014-04-10 22:12:02 +0000 UTC]

cute

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Psycho333 [2012-04-02 00:51:15 +0000 UTC]

This is AWESOME

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shining-armor7 [2012-03-13 18:13:12 +0000 UTC]

so cute

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morsecode007 [2012-01-23 08:39:38 +0000 UTC]

i duno if im tripping right now or what but thoes clouds are moveing on me.....

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Arrkhal In reply to morsecode007 [2012-01-23 14:47:54 +0000 UTC]

Maybe it's Derpy's reality-warping abilities!

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morsecode007 In reply to Arrkhal [2012-01-23 18:01:08 +0000 UTC]

true. lol

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Nova225 [2012-01-11 17:23:48 +0000 UTC]

Future pet for Dinky, maybe ?

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Arrkhal In reply to Nova225 [2012-01-12 07:52:24 +0000 UTC]

I dunno, it's almost as big as she is! Come to think of it, I have no idea how big MLPs are supposed to be.

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Nova225 In reply to Arrkhal [2012-01-12 17:36:24 +0000 UTC]

Most people theorize (plus based on the average size of ''real'' ponies) that they are about 4 to 5 Ft.
Someone recently made this : [link] : which gives an idea of scale (about 1/2 to 2/3 an adult human).

Also, I once had an husky dog that was as big as me (plus a good number of cats, though they were obviously smaller).

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Arrkhal In reply to Nova225 [2012-01-12 20:30:15 +0000 UTC]

Huh, looks like I made the kitty the right size without even knowing what I was doing, yay. Well, hm, that means Derpy can have the kitty in one saddlebag and Dinky in the other, and they'll balance. Yay!

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Admiral3050 [2012-01-06 13:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Why the random kitty? ?(*.*(\?

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Arrkhal In reply to Admiral3050 [2012-01-06 20:00:27 +0000 UTC]

It was part of request. And me like animals.

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Admiral3050 In reply to Arrkhal [2012-01-07 15:38:02 +0000 UTC]

oh ok I just find the cat random but yeah its cute /)^-^(\

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trolled-hard [2012-01-05 14:30:13 +0000 UTC]

love it

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ChrisSpartan117 [2012-01-05 03:35:34 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty good. I'll finish part 2, then I'll send it to ED for review. I'm impressed you did this good of a job this quick.

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Fernixx [2012-01-05 00:59:19 +0000 UTC]

cute

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