Rat's Saucy Nest

I do! I like a big variety of ships! And I think Rarijack is my favorite one right now. Which makes that Anon even more ridiculous.

But yeah, Appledash is close to my heart. I really like it and it was my first ship and kinda the reason why I became a part of this fandom.

I think people getting angry over a ship are silly. And I don’t mean people who have discussions about which ship would work out best or why certain ships won’t work well in reality. I mean people who go around telling other people what they’re allowed to like and people who genuinely get angry about the fact that someone ships two cartoon colored horses together.

Blech, anyways, sorry for random boring textposts!

Sure sounds like you’re the one here who is taking it way too serious.

I love the irony in this ask.

Edit: Haha, I just saw this person sent almost exactly the same message to my SFW blog last night. So much for shoving opinions down the throat of others.

*your

6/10, made me reply. Could use something along the lines of “I’m a highly decorated member of the US Marines!”, though. And definitely needs more insults.

Aw, thank you so much! I was afraid you’ll never see the picture since it took me about two months from getting your message until I actually finished it. I’m glad you like it! Thank you again for the nice idea, I think I’ll definitely do the other three of the mane six sooner or later. I already have some ideas for their jewelry!

PC! It’s the Digital Deluxe. You can add me on Steam or uplay if you wanna play together, maybe. My nick is RatofDeath.

Also if someone who follows me by any chance ends up invading me, please lemme know afterwards!

I use a Intuos5 to draw and usually draw completely in SAI, for some effects or sometimes for coloring I use Photoshop, though! I usually shade on a Layer Mask (Clipping Group in SAI) over the whole image in a nice color on multiply. Warm colors for warm feelings, cooler colors for cold feelings, usually I decide on a nice purple, for AJ a subtle red goes really well, tho! I’m not that good at explaining things, so have some pictures that explain how Masks and Multiply work:

The drawing with outlines and flats.

Shading layer above the whole drawing group. To prevent me from coloring over the area and into the background, I use the mask feature, which does that:

Shading confined in the right area. I do the same for highlights and everything else that isn’t an outline or a flat color.

If we set the shading layer to multiply, we turn that huge purple blob into a more purplish version of the color underlying it:

And voila, shading complete!

Sometimes I use different shading colors for different areas of the picture, but I think for most situations this method is easy and fast while still producing good results. I then smooth the shading out where it needs to be smoother, hard edges where something is casting a hard shadow, secondary light sources, reflections, etc. But that’s the basic method I start with.

I hope that was helpful!

Important: If you shade try to avoid any color involving grey (or even straight black). For highlights also try to avoid straight white. Be creative with your colors! Be bold! I’m nowhere near as bold with my colors as I should be, I’m trying, tho!

Yeah, they’re supposed to be folded back, in hindsight that wasn’t such a great idea on my part, because it does look rather off when they’re hidden by the tail!

And don’t worry about being “that guy” or anything! Stuff like that is actually very helpful to me, since I myself often don’t see things that look off or that are just plain wrong, because I got accustomed to them when spending hours on a drawing.

So mentioning that helps me be mindful of things like that in the future and I can learn from it.