Aluke's Art / Pencil Crayon Fluttershy Headshot

[Griffin]

Oooh yes please! The Adoptables forum has been pretty quiet as of late, it would be amazing to have some new active threads. And very kind of you to offer these!

[aintnobuffalo]

Just a small doodle that I thought would make a cute adoptable. Though, before I take the time to polish the line work and start an appropriate thread in the adoptables section, I figured I'd ask first. Would anyone be interested in adopting a holiday stocking pony? Inspired by what has to be my favourite pony ornament (Twilight Sparkle in a Stocking, so cute).

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So yes, would anyone want to adopt one of these for December?

  I love it!! Miiiiiintyyyy!

[aluke]

Minty is the sock pony after all! I'm so delayed on these, I want to set this up sooner than later (being seasonal and all), but I don't know what to do without photobucket. I guess it's time to figure out how to use deviantart stash.

[Ponyfan]

I'd love one.  The Adoptables section hasn't been very active lately.

Ponyfan

[aluke]

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All done. You can now adopt one in the link above.

[lostpony]

so THIS is where those cool avatars keep coming from....

[aluke]

Lostpony- I guess so? If you want to request a stocking pony just follow the link in my post above. If you meant my actual artwork, thanks. If you are interested in my art, I'm not really actively advertising commissions, but I can probably squeeze one in.

[aluke]

Pony art hasn't been a huge priority lately, but this came out of my nightly doodle session, plus I needed an excuse to axe the retired adoptable header. I need to learn how to clean up traditional photos, or invest in a new scanner. 

Undetermined sea pony-

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[lostpony]

Hi!  What I meant to say is that your art seems to be popular with members here.  Has a distinct look which is very nice especially the eyes and snout. 

(I'm kinda hung up on using my own for my avatar, and I've only drawn one passable thing so far. do you like it?)

Great work! and good luck with things like scanner etc, ack.  I can't get colored pencil shading to scan and I'm about ready to build a light-box with a camera mount or something.

[aluke]

Well thank you. There's no written rule that you have to use an adoptable as your avatar,  some people just like to collect art. Haha, but alas, it's not like you HAVE to adopt one either. 

I think the worst part about traditional art is getting an accurate representation on your computer.

Also small update again, I forgot to put my Pony in a Pear Tree entry in my art thread, in the OP now.

[lostpony]

Haha right there next to the partridge too.  Dangit I forgot to ask Santa for pony in a pear tree.  Maybe next year.  I like the closed eye.

The colors on mine came in OK with my smartphone but everything else was bad, on a scanner everything but the colors came through...I think a good hi-res, close range camera set on a mount with a good spectrum of diffused lighting might work.  I'm determined to keep using colored pencils and get this all under control before getting into drawing on the computer so hopefully I can solve the problem.

[AmberMarie]

SQUEE! Sea pony!

[aluke]

Haha thanks lostpony. There's always next this year.

Well, based on this convo, I decided to whip out my pencil crayons after half a year. Original phone image next to a digitally brightened (and more accurate) version. I'll have to take a picture in natural light,  as it's past midnight now, as well as dig out my old scanner and see if I can get it running. Honestly, it's 2017, why is it still so much work to take a decent picture. 

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Aww, thank you, AmberMarie. Seaponies are super cute.