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A while ago, Pone-Dancer did one of these challenges including my style, which both flattered me and made me want to try this for myself, someday. And I finally did. This was a lot of fun! I definitely recommend this challenge to anyone struggling to find inspiration.

Before explaining which artists I tried to pay homage to here, I invite you to read the disclaimers in form of questions at the end of the description.

So, here we go! My main OC Stendhal Syndrome in the styles of:

1- EnderGurl22 . What I love the most about Ender's style are the smooth lines, with those big pointy snouts and fluffy tufts, and the lovely shading. While I think I managed to do a good job with the first one, I think the shading could have been better on the eye, but the one on the hair looks good. She uses a slightly different approach to shading/highlighting than mine, so it was challenging (but also nice) to change my modus operandi trying to understand where she would put a reflection of light or, instead, a darker zone. She also makes amazing facial expressions! To which bored Stendhal doesn't really do justice. But I'm proud of this one!

2 - Pone-Dancer . Her style is pleasant, cartoony and absolutely loveable. It's a style that's a lot of fun to draw and gives characters a very innocent look. I think it's because of the eye, where the iris and pupil are almost always quite big, as well as the backwards-pointing ears. The way she draws nostrils is also very personal: definitely had to include that. And I managed to include the glasses because I found a reference of how she draws glasses in the design of her main OC Tony.

3 - ElectraDust . A big "must" to draw in her style was using colored outlines. She's not the only artist in this panel that does that, but since it's a consistent feature and a feature that, to me, clearly speaks of her style, I decided to include that, which I normally wouldn't do, as I find it a bit tricky (hence why all the other portraits have black outlines, even when the original artists sometimes use colored outlines). The fluffy ear was also something I had to include, with that internal jagged line I saw in many of her drawings.

4 - mariebite787 . Where do I even start? Her style is radically different from anything else I've seen on this site. I can't exactly list what the main features are, either, as I just tried to draw every body parts like she usually does, because they all look very personal. To summarize a bit, I'd say her horses are slim, slinky, with very flowing, wavy manes and big eyebrows for expression. She also has her own way of coloring eyes, which instead of including a black pupil uses three gradations of the main color, with the darkest being the pupil.

5 - Strawberry-HeartRose . Also another very recognizable style, what I love the most about this is the "composite" feeling: you have the round head, the sharper looking muzzle and jaw, the polygonal eyes, the rounded ear with the sharper central element... and then the tufts! My interpretation doesn't really do it justice, but she's great at drawing manes. Her shading is also composite, being sharper where there's a defined separation between two surfaces (as you can see on the snout) and softer where the transition between one surface and another isn't that abrupt (like on the neck).

6 - CrunchyCromch . Another style that, like Pone-Dancer's, is capable of giving horses that extra cuteness-factor. Rounded snout, puffy cheeks, seamless shading (which I couldn't quite recreate, so go check it out in her gallery!) and big, pointy, fluffy ears. Her eyes don't always look like this, as it seems to me that she likes to experiment with different techniques, that are always really pleasant to look at, but I picked this because I found it particularly interesting. It's a style she experimented in one of her OC's Arctic's drawings. Her expressions are also really good, so I chose to give Stendhal something more than a mere bored/calm look in this case and made him look surprised.

7 - mlp-melodymark . What I really like about her style is the way she draws manes, with curls and swirls that make them look super consistent and material! There is, in particular, this one style where she also includes a few stray hairs, a really original idea, so I decided to go for that. I didn't have a reference for Stendhal's beard, so I based myself on one of the ways she draws her ponies' cheeks (which is via those rounded tufts you can see there) and I used the same type of tufts for the beard. I think it came out pretty good. Also, pay attention to the electric blue streak in Stendhal's pupil: that's an attempt to recreate digitally something mlp-melodymark does in her traditional drawings; she uses a marker to create an extra splash of color in a pony's pupils, using a darker shade than the one of the iris. It's really neat, you should definitely check it out in her traditional artworks.

8 - AquaPegasus . Her style is super cute, bright, glittery and cartoony, which makes her characters some of the happiest, most cheerful looking ones I've seen! The big round eyes, the short pointy snout, the fur covered ears are all typical features of it. The way she does her manes is very interesting, because it combines solid lines with a softer shading and the effect is really cool: it really gives the idea the mane is formed by big tufts of hair, each of which is also formed by a lot of thinner hairs. In my opinion, a really nice way to harmonize the way manes are made in the MLP regular show and realistic horse manes. Also, she has a really unique way of drawing the iris, with a sort of "double highlighting": one is the main reflex/shadow, the other is a lot of smaller individual highlights that you can see if you zoom in. Though I wasn't quite able to pull that off correctly so... go see her drawings! It's worth it.

9 - Lastly, my style. Not much to see, just my good old Stendhal, in his good old fashioned look.

I hope you like this experiment! Let me know what you think and if you would like to see some more, with other artists' styles.
Stendhal: "...can I move now?"
No.

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Disclaimers
Did you manage to include all artist that inspire you?
Absolutely not. There's so many talented artists I would have loved to include, but I just couldn't, either for issues with time (it took me weeks to just draw these: you need to analyse a person's artworks to try and pinpoint their essential features, look at how they do shading/highlighting, find references, try to imagine how your character would look in a certain style...) or with the style itself: I'm not an exceptional artist and I think it's important to recognize your own limits; for some styles, although beautiful, I felt like I wasn't skilled enough to recreate them properly, so I preferred to stick to those I knew I could somewhat mimick. Don't feel bad if I didn't include yours! I might do another one of these soon and I might accept suggestions. ^^

Were you able to recreate these people's styles perfectly?
Definitely not. I am satisfied with them, but every artist's style is unique and the only person capable of getting the most out of that style is the artist themself. What I drew here is not an exact copy of an original style, it's still my interpretation to a certain extent. Therefore, I strongly recommend you to check out the artists I featured, because they are all super talented! If you liked these portaits, believe me, you'll like the ones they do even more.

Do you have these people's permission to draw in their style?
Yes. Each artist was contacted individually and asked for their permission to be included in the project. The only exception was Pone-Dancer, because if I remember correctly I promised I'd do one of these challenges and include her when she posted her original challenge. And it's also a way to reciprocate the honor of having my OC drawn in her style.

Why does Stendhal never smile? And what happened to his glasses?
Stendhal isn't smiling because he had to model for me while I created each of these portraits and he gets bored easily. XD As for the glasses, he took them off after the second portrait and then put them back before the last one. Logic 100. >w<

Description
A while ago, Pone-Dancer did one of these challenges including my style, which both flattered me and made me want to try this for myself, someday. And I finally did. This was a lot of fun! I definitely recommend this challenge to anyone struggling to find inspiration.

Before explaining which artists I tried to pay homage to here, I invite you to read the disclaimers in form of questions at the end of the description.

So, here we go! My main OC Stendhal Syndrome in the styles of:

1- EnderGurl22 . What I love the most about Ender's style are the smooth lines, with those big pointy snouts and fluffy tufts, and the lovely shading. While I think I managed to do a good job with the first one, I think the shading could have been better on the eye, but the one on the hair looks good. She uses a slightly different approach to shading/highlighting than mine, so it was challenging (but also nice) to change my modus operandi trying to understand where she would put a reflection of light or, instead, a darker zone. She also makes amazing facial expressions! To which bored Stendhal doesn't really do justice. But I'm proud of this one!

2 - Pone-Dancer . Her style is pleasant, cartoony and absolutely loveable. It's a style that's a lot of fun to draw and gives characters a very innocent look. I think it's because of the eye, where the iris and pupil are almost always quite big, as well as the backwards-pointing ears. The way she draws nostrils is also very personal: definitely had to include that. And I managed to include the glasses because I found a reference of how she draws glasses in the design of her main OC Tony.

3 - ElectraDust . A big "must" to draw in her style was using colored outlines. She's not the only artist in this panel that does that, but since it's a consistent feature and a feature that, to me, clearly speaks of her style, I decided to include that, which I normally wouldn't do, as I find it a bit tricky (hence why all the other portraits have black outlines, even when the original artists sometimes use colored outlines). The fluffy ear was also something I had to include, with that internal jagged line I saw in many of her drawings.

4 - mariebite787 . Where do I even start? Her style is radically different from anything else I've seen on this site. I can't exactly list what the main features are, either, as I just tried to draw every body parts like she usually does, because they all look very personal. To summarize a bit, I'd say her horses are slim, slinky, with very flowing, wavy manes and big eyebrows for expression. She also has her own way of coloring eyes, which instead of including a black pupil uses three gradations of the main color, with the darkest being the pupil.

5 - Strawberry-HeartRose . Also another very recognizable style, what I love the most about this is the "composite" feeling: you have the round head, the sharper looking muzzle and jaw, the polygonal eyes, the rounded ear with the sharper central element... and then the tufts! My interpretation doesn't really do it justice, but she's great at drawing manes. Her shading is also composite, being sharper where there's a defined separation between two surfaces (as you can see on the snout) and softer where the transition between one surface and another isn't that abrupt (like on the neck).

6 - CrunchyCromch . Another style that, like Pone-Dancer's, is capable of giving horses that extra cuteness-factor. Rounded snout, puffy cheeks, seamless shading (which I couldn't quite recreate, so go check it out in her gallery!) and big, pointy, fluffy ears. Her eyes don't always look like this, as it seems to me that she likes to experiment with different techniques, that are always really pleasant to look at, but I picked this because I found it particularly interesting. It's a style she experimented in one of her OC's Arctic's drawings. Her expressions are also really good, so I chose to give Stendhal something more than a mere bored/calm look in this case and made him look surprised.

7 - mlp-melodymark . What I really like about her style is the way she draws manes, with curls and swirls that make them look super consistent and material! There is, in particular, this one style where she also includes a few stray hairs, a really original idea, so I decided to go for that. I didn't have a reference for Stendhal's beard, so I based myself on one of the ways she draws her ponies' cheeks (which is via those rounded tufts you can see there) and I used the same type of tufts for the beard. I think it came out pretty good. Also, pay attention to the electric blue streak in Stendhal's pupil: that's an attempt to recreate digitally something mlp-melodymark does in her traditional drawings; she uses a marker to create an extra splash of color in a pony's pupils, using a darker shade than the one of the iris. It's really neat, you should definitely check it out in her traditional artworks.

8 - AquaPegasus . Her style is super cute, bright, glittery and cartoony, which makes her characters some of the happiest, most cheerful looking ones I've seen! The big round eyes, the short pointy snout, the fur covered ears are all typical features of it. The way she does her manes is very interesting, because it combines solid lines with a softer shading and the effect is really cool: it really gives the idea the mane is formed by big tufts of hair, each of which is also formed by a lot of thinner hairs. In my opinion, a really nice way to harmonize the way manes are made in the MLP regular show and realistic horse manes. Also, she has a really unique way of drawing the iris, with a sort of "double highlighting": one is the main reflex/shadow, the other is a lot of smaller individual highlights that you can see if you zoom in. Though I wasn't quite able to pull that off correctly so... go see her drawings! It's worth it.

9 - Lastly, my style. Not much to see, just my good old Stendhal, in his good old fashioned look.

I hope you like this experiment! Let me know what you think and if you would like to see some more, with other artists' styles.
Stendhal: "...can I move now?"
No.

---

Disclaimers
Did you manage to include all artist that inspire you?
Absolutely not. There's so many talented artists I would have loved to include, but I just couldn't, either for issues with time (it took me weeks to just draw these: you need to analyse a person's artworks to try and pinpoint their essential features, look at how they do shading/highlighting, find references, try to imagine how your character would look in a certain style...) or with the style itself: I'm not an exceptional artist and I think it's important to recognize your own limits; for some styles, although beautiful, I felt like I wasn't skilled enough to recreate them properly, so I preferred to stick to those I knew I could somewhat mimick. Don't feel bad if I didn't include yours! I might do another one of these soon and I might accept suggestions. ^^

Were you able to recreate these people's styles perfectly?
Definitely not. I am satisfied with them, but every artist's style is unique and the only person capable of getting the most out of that style is the artist themself. What I drew here is not an exact copy of an original style, it's still my interpretation to a certain extent. Therefore, I strongly recommend you to check out the artists I featured, because they are all super talented! If you liked these portaits, believe me, you'll like the ones they do even more.

Do you have these people's permission to draw in their style?
Yes. Each artist was contacted individually and asked for their permission to be included in the project. The only exception was Pone-Dancer, because if I remember correctly I promised I'd do one of these challenges and include her when she posted her original challenge. And it's also a way to reciprocate the honor of having my OC drawn in her style.

Why does Stendhal never smile? And what happened to his glasses?
Stendhal isn't smiling because he had to model for me while I created each of these portraits and he gets bored easily. XD As for the glasses, he took them off after the second portrait and then put them back before the last one. Logic 100. >w<