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Ta-dah! One of the personal little pieces I've been meaning to do for a while. I did this sketch, like, forever ago. Last year sometime? Anyway I recently pulled it out and dusted it off a little, and gave it a fresh coat of paint.

This is a slight redesign of one of my centaur characters, Theon. I didn't add too much save for his stockings, heterochromia, and rearranged the scars a bit. For the sake of lulz, here is the old one, from two years ago: [link]

Improvement get! Some of the anatomy is still a little stupid, but it was fun nevertheless. I didn't use OpenCanvas at all for this one as I have been for most of my recent art, I decided to see if I could still color things decent in Photoshop. I guess it turned out alright. I like the sort of roughness to it.

To give a little backstory, he's a blacksmith in some modest little medieval town of some sort, I'm not too sure. His shop is set apart on the fringes of the village, as he doesn't much care for people in general. In fact, he's really kind of a grouch, if you couldn't guess by his expression. Mean, cantankerous, stubborn, and prone to loving the bottle a little too much. However, he is damned good at what he does, so the locals put up with his somewhat unpleasant temper and he puts up with their existence in exchange for money.

Yeah, shhh, it's a beauuutiful symbiosis He's not especially fond of humans, but he doesn't hate them either, and occasionally takes young local boys in as apprentices. Who are good mostly for kicking around and shoeing his hooves (as adept as he is and shoeing regular horses, it frustrates him to no end that he can't quite do his own). He didn't used to tolerate them, but he used to favor his left arm, until a particularly nasty wound did some nerve damage in that arm. It's still usable, but not so great for smithing, so he's had to get used to the other hand. He's still very talented, but not as quick or efficient as he used to be, so his apprentices help him a bit with some of the easier orders.

BLAH BLAH BLAH in summation: OMG HORSEY!

Description
Ta-dah! One of the personal little pieces I've been meaning to do for a while. I did this sketch, like, forever ago. Last year sometime? Anyway I recently pulled it out and dusted it off a little, and gave it a fresh coat of paint.

This is a slight redesign of one of my centaur characters, Theon. I didn't add too much save for his stockings, heterochromia, and rearranged the scars a bit. For the sake of lulz, here is the old one, from two years ago: [link]

Improvement get! Some of the anatomy is still a little stupid, but it was fun nevertheless. I didn't use OpenCanvas at all for this one as I have been for most of my recent art, I decided to see if I could still color things decent in Photoshop. I guess it turned out alright. I like the sort of roughness to it.

To give a little backstory, he's a blacksmith in some modest little medieval town of some sort, I'm not too sure. His shop is set apart on the fringes of the village, as he doesn't much care for people in general. In fact, he's really kind of a grouch, if you couldn't guess by his expression. Mean, cantankerous, stubborn, and prone to loving the bottle a little too much. However, he is damned good at what he does, so the locals put up with his somewhat unpleasant temper and he puts up with their existence in exchange for money.

Yeah, shhh, it's a beauuutiful symbiosis He's not especially fond of humans, but he doesn't hate them either, and occasionally takes young local boys in as apprentices. Who are good mostly for kicking around and shoeing his hooves (as adept as he is and shoeing regular horses, it frustrates him to no end that he can't quite do his own). He didn't used to tolerate them, but he used to favor his left arm, until a particularly nasty wound did some nerve damage in that arm. It's still usable, but not so great for smithing, so he's had to get used to the other hand. He's still very talented, but not as quick or efficient as he used to be, so his apprentices help him a bit with some of the easier orders.

BLAH BLAH BLAH in summation: OMG HORSEY!