New addition for my Season 6 Episode Art!
Season 6, Episode 14: The Cart Before The Ponies
For more info on my episode art: MLP:FIM Season 5 Episode Art Streams

Such a wacky episode this was. With those races and all.

The results were quite nice, though. A pretty good lesson that’s not spoken about
enough, or addressed. It’s often assumed by any side, but not always done optimally,
as the episode showed. It had it’s little weird moments, (8 way intersection ha-ha),
but overall enjoyable. The designs for the carts were fun to see! Obviously
Applejack designs are best ones, for no biased reason what so ever.

Decided to try and tackle a bunch of different things, I like to do,
at the same time. Make Applejack, Applejack in new outfit. While also
making a key part of the episode, the cart! I’ve not made a lot of vehicles
in the past, so this one was pretty fun. But the reference was also easy
to see, being the pre-war racing cars, which were build for speed. I’m not
really into cars, but that’s was a nice little inspiration they used.

Originally I thought I’d go with a fast motion composition approach, but then
it’d be harder to include Applejack. So I went with a more posing way, displaying
the car with a model, or well… in this case mechanic Applejack! Even better.

I’ve been exploring side lighting this past week, and enjoying it.
It’s a light I can manage to achieve somewhat “realistic” setting
with, with my figurine style shading. Usually for that style I apply
a broad flooding light from above, so the shadow casting is minimal,
but with this it allows me to have a bit more shadow play going on.
It also helps I managed to figure out the colours quite soon, at
least to the point of it balancing nicely for later adjustments.

Anyhow, hope y’all enjoyed the episode, and this little tribute
to it. There will be plenty more as episodes keep releasing!

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