WIP Thread for Sourdoughstomper UPDATED ON: 4-11-13 COMPLETE

[PoniesYeah]

This thread is for the sweet lady Sourdough.
This is a bit of a different custom, in that I'm simply picking up where another customizer left off.
Would this be a hand-me-down them?

Miss Stomper wants a desert scape. so to start here we have a simple rough sketch of what I intend to do for her.

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The first layer.
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Thanks to cure time even the simplest project can take days. I wish I could have gotten a better picture. But my memory card is acting strange. I think it's about to poop the bed.
So her we have part of the mid-background laid in and the foreground stone. Tomorrow... cacti!
now if you'll excuse me I have an illustration to work on before bed.

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Here we go with the Cacti. Again, so little to be done between drying periods. I'd try to do more of the beaver tail cactus but I know I'd absentmindedly stick my thumb in the others. better to be safe then frustrated and tempted to toss a pony across the office.
And with the wait time I made a little more progress on Chocolate Rain. She's updated too. s'cuse me while I go illustrate now. G'night all!

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Now we have the cacti finished and littler lizard.
Basically this side is done. I'll draw up a rough sketch for the other side next week.
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Alright Sour, Here's what I'm thinking for the revers side. I hope it's readable. it's a pretty dashed off muddy mess. The moon kinda got lost but I'm imagining one of those illuminated cloud kinds night. I can even toss in some teeny gems as stars. What ya think.

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Sorry it's been so long. Things have been busy round here. The Parents-in-law sold their home and moved in with us till they find a new place.
Now I think all that's needed is some sunflowers and the sculpting is done.
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Hey Sourdough! So here's one side with the sunflowers on the saddle. What do you think? For truly if you think they are awkward in anyway just say so and I can pop em off and move on to painting. no hurt no foul. I worry they may be a slight odd since I couldn't position them more centered. in the end after multiple failures at sculpting them directly on. I ended up sculpting them flat and transferring them to the saddle just before the cured.

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Sculpting is done. Next up we start painting!
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Back to work. I had to take a couple weeks off to let me hands heal. I was really forcing through the sculpting. as a result my knuckles became cracked bleeding messes from the allergic beat down.
So you can guess the scenes will be a sunset into night fall scene. Once the clouds are added the day side will be vastly different. See all the random colors slapped about in the leaves and what not? for the most part that's just me messing around as I wait for a layer to dry. that and some of those color washes can act as a base layer. same as in an under painting.
If I wanted to get cray cray with it I'd have used complement colors. for example the leaves would have gotten a red under tone and the sun flower petals a blue undertone.
Still gotta tighten up the night side. I think I'll lay in the ground base tonight.

Hey Sour! If you dont dig the direction at all for any reason... best to let me know now. from here that sunset dictates all other colors.

Whut thu... G D it! Gotta fix my sig. It is cute tho.
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Mountains painted!
Middle-foreground tomorrow.
Say, Sour... what color do you think the ribbon going around the saddle should be?
And for everyone asking about the paint organizer. It came from organizemore.com It is great! I might get a second.
http://www.organizemore.com/Acrylic-Paint-Organizer_p_20.html

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I have to say that I have surprised my self today. I didn't expect to get so much completed. The foreground sure but not the entire side. well save for the saddle ribbon of course. we still have to decide it's color. all this progress comes at the cost of my mother-in-law's sanity. Thursday is my "baby-free" in which nana has a "baby-full" day. Hence my accomplishment! I fear having a baby chucked at me when I finally open my office door. Unfortunately I do have to come out to eat at some point.

speaking of saddle ribbon... as you can see I've done a couple blocks to help Sour decide what she might want. There's the aqua kind of blue. which I worry might fade into background with the saddle image (due to all the cool tones) instead of jumping to the front to act as finishing frame.  With yellow and orange being the second most dominate we go in the direction of purple. you know employ the while purple / yellow compliment color thing. this tine also comes close (not perfect) to the lighter purple in the mane.
And for a third choice, we have a cream hue in the bottom left edge. Against the largest sunflower on the saddle. Sure it's just cream, no need to break out the jazz hands but it also acts as the high contrast framing mechanism to the scene without distracting.
And there you have it, my two cents.

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So now that it's gotten this far... I'm wondering if it even needs the clouds I had planned. What do you guys think? I was gonna do a cloudy sky on both sides mind you. Ill be adding more starts (gems) too ont he night side. just gotta make up my mind about the clouds.

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FINISHED!
Hit me with your shipping info Sour!

Also... You might be wondering why I added a pic of the pallet. Just a scrap piece of paper really.
I truly believe that something can be learned from studying someones pallet. Not only do you see the colors they used but how they mixed em. and sometimes what tones came from mixing alone rather than a tube. you also see just how much glazing they do and how translucently. You can even tell how organized they are or in my case Aren't.
I wish to gawd I could see the pallet museum in Sweden. I think it's in Sweden.

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[Colorscapesart]

Oooooh this will be fabulous!  Will we get shots of layers on the desert scene?

[JoshsPonyPrincess]

Awesome can't wait to see it in action!

[SourdoughStomper]

Can't wait to see the PY magic.

[achab1984]

WOW!!! I cant wait to see her when she is done!

[Saja]

Looking cool so far!!

[Kazzellin]

Looks good. I look forward to seeing progress pics - I've never done the painting and sculpting after the hair is in, so look forward to seeing how this happens. That, and your work is fifty shades of awesome.

[Diamond]

So glad you where able to help our sweet stomper out.  I look forward to seeing some more of your magic.

[PoniesYeah]

bump for lightning fast first update!

[Saja]

Awesome first layer!! This is so cool that your showing us layer by layer!! Thanks so much!

[Diamond]

Cool!

[kaoskat]

Can't wait to see her done!

[Kazzellin]

Awesome! Wait - is that paint or clay?

[Eluluu]

yeah what kind of clay do you use for sculpting? im shopping around for a good sculpting medium thats preferably no-bake.

i ADORE your work!

[JoshsPonyPrincess]

I love that you are showing us layer by layer too Looks great!!!