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Published: 2012-10-19 01:45:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 6055; Favourites: 229; Downloads: 94
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Technically not a pony!Kidding.
Spike's pretty adorable isn't he?
I drew a lot of inspiration for his face from Len. Can you tell? He went through a lot of hairstyles too, one iteration actually having Len's hair. Maybe I'll upload that picture some time.
Made it look like my original FiM group picture, because I couldn't think of anything else to put in the background.
Enjoy.
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Comments: 26
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I dunno, who do you wanna see next?
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You should draw him more often. ^_^
also I love that you went with a slightly oriental look for him. it's different. (Also indicating that he's a different species, maybe? The rest of the ponies look more western in fashion, him being eastern could be the whole ponies vs dragons thing 
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Reminds me of generation 5 Pokemon character designs.
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Lol, Spike the Pokemon Trainer
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How do you get the shading this good? Thats always been my one problem with drawing in this style.
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It's all in the subtlety in the balance of shadows. If you look closely the hard cel-shaded style is mixed with gradients and soft shading
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No I mean like what brushes do you use and how do you get it that exact.
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Nothing special. I do everything with a mouse, I just use the default brushes in photoshop
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Darn I use a different program....
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It's just default settings, so it should be achievable in any program, I don't use any special brushes or extensions or anything
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Gah I just don't get it. >.<
Its so..... So perfect >.<
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Like I always say: It's not about the tools you need but how you use the tools that you have
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Ya I'm not really much of an artist. I'm trying to figure it out though.
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