Bonus addition for my Season 6 Episode Art!
Season 6, Episode 25&26: To Where and Back Again
For more info on my episode art: MLP:FIM Season 5 Episode Art Streams

Little additional piece for the finale, although my main piece was last week.
But this design was quite interesting to show up, so I went ahead and tried
it in the portrait style I had before at the beginning of this year. Although,
it felt weird haha. He’s so different than the other’s I had made. No hair,
the pincers/antlers, the colours, etc. But, it’s a fun challenge.

Key to this style for me was to approach it in a single layer. This was
all single layer, I just duplicated it for WIP purposes. I also didn’t
do any adjustment layers this time around. So just me and my brush, mostly.

Anyhow. They’re interesting designs. I was tempted to make it very iridescent
like a rainbow stag beetle, but I chickened out haha. I was trying to keep this
pretty basic, not too complex. And something like that, is definitely tricky to
get just right. At least in the amount that a Rainbow Stag Beetle has. Hence its name.