Rat's Saucy Nest
My wife and I decided to celebrate the whole week leading up to each other’s birthdays. And since hers is this Saturday, I wanted to start off the week with a small picture! She really enjoyed this little scene in S04E13. Imagining Applejack being stuck is always fun.
Enjoy! <3
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ratofponi Said:
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!
I finally had a little time to draw some smut again! So enjoy a quick and dirty Cadance. <3
Click image for higher resolution on derpybooru.
Back from Babscon. It was amazing, and finally got to visit my friend RatofPoni and Callisto for the first time. They surprised me with a print with the words “Hope the stress of the con didn’t SWALLOW you whole” Haha man, I love it.
It was great finally meeting you! And your reaction was amazing, too.
He kinda did a double take and then just started laughing while giving me a “I see what you did there” look. <3 Also why is there a comma after “con”, apparently I was so tired I couldn’t even write.
Babscon was amazing! I’m dead tired and it’s back to work tomorrow morning. But you can expect some new art soon!
I met so many amazing and incredibly nice people, it was great. A lot of people came to say hi and I was overwhelmed by how many people recognized my art and complimented me on it. Big thanks to all of you! I ran out of all of my 500 Business/Collectors Card sometime Sunday noon. And I was afraid I ordered way too many, they were insanely popular.
I was so completely exhausted the whole weekend though, so I wasn’t really socializing that much, sorry if I seemed a bit absent. But I was able to say hi to pretty much everyone I wanted to and even had the chance to meet Ashleigh Ball! I gave her one of my prints as a present and she was really sweet. I’m so glad I was finally able to talk a bit with her.
I also had a really short conversation with Tara Strong in the hallways and Nicole Oliver walked by our table and said hi, which was great!
My wife and I also got the most incredible wedding gift from Tsitra, it’s traditionally drawn and it just looks gorgeous. The reference is both subtle and incredibly obvious at the same time. I love it, it’s the perfect gift!
I had lots of fun on my first experience as a vendor and I’ll definitely sell at cons again! I regret a bit that I wasn’t able to meet up for any after parties or anything. Hopefully the next time we can focus solely on the con experience and don’t have to juggle so many things besides the con.
I’m really happy that most of my prints were popular and I got some much needed experience on what works at con and what doesn’t! I have a select few leftover prints, I’ll make a post about them later if maybe someone who didn’t had a chance to come is interested in getting some.
Anyways, thanks to all of you who came by to say hi, to shake hands or to hug and also to everybody who bought something! Thanks so much!
Also, can’t believe how many people at my table hinted at or outright stated that they know and like my smut! Huge shoutout to all of you, it was seriously great meeting you all! I’ll post new art in the next days, I have some almost finished stuff ready!
And sorry for the wall of text.
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Come say hi at Babscon, Table A10 in the Artist Alley!
Going to Babscon? Come say hi! I’m not in the big Vendor Hall, but on the other side of the building in the Artist Alley, Table A10.
So excited for the con, I’m sure it’s going to be amazing and I’ll meet lots of awesome people!
I’ll post the goods I’ll have for sale later today.
I even have a second one! Jaina’s mine, I brought her with me when I moved from Switzerland to California, she always looks angry and like she wants to kill me. Valentine’s my wife’s, he’s fat and constantly in the way.
I love them both dearly.
“Oh, you’re very busy and desperately trying to finish some important drawings? NOT ON MY WATCH.”
Cats.
The Collectible Cards/Business Cards I’ll be giving away at Babscon arrived! They’re so cool and look awesome! <3
They’re double sided, finished picture in front, sketch in back!
That’s not how you play rodeo, silly pony.
Not sure what she’s more pissed at, being exposed like that or having to wear that completely unfashionable hat.
Drawn as a break between working on the pictures for the wedding themed set.
I was going through my old art yesterday and found this piece here. I really like it (which is rare for me for old pieces) and I’ve gained about 2k followers since I’ve drawn it, so I figured a lot of you might have never seen it, hence the reblog!
Sorry for no new content in the past two weeks, I’m very busy drawing prints for Babscon, there will be new stuff soon!
That feel when you really, really, really wanna draw some porn but you can’t because you need to finish convention prints.
It’s incredibly frustrating, I tell you! Maybe I can sneak in something little tomorrow, hopefully!
Sorry for not posting anything in the past few days! I’m insanely busy drawing prints for Babscon. I’m going to past some previews as soon as I’m done with them!
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ratofponi Said:
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.
Applejack being a pro.