This is my second submission for the Artist Training Grounds’ week 11 theme: draw a pony fighting a boss. So I’ve mentioned before how I thought Twilight was really tough and badass. And then proceeded to write/draw a bunch of stuff that basically crapped all over her. So now it’s time to own up to the badass part. Here she is fighting a boss… that is like a giant evil shadow unicorn pony… uh, thing (don’t ask, I was making it up as I went along). Anyway, this is supposed to be years down the line when Twilight has become a master magess and accumulated a few extra toys. Just look at that smug smile. Big intimidating thing? No problem! She’s got three spells (meteors, triple telekinesis and the shield) going and she’s not even breaking a sweat. The light orb is supposed to be firing some sort of beam. The dark orb and mysterious tome are just kind of sitting inert, I guess since she doesn’t want to waste magical energy overkilling the boss.
Anyway, on to the technical stuff. The light sources will haunt me forever. I had way more than I was ready to handle and what’s more, they started affected each other. I think I did a pretty good job getting it all figured out. I think. I used the usual trio of 2H-HB-2B to shade, plus managed to successfully add the 4B and make it work (I used it to shade the boss and add a bit to the finger smudged background).
This made me smile. The description made me smile even harder. The only thing you’re missing is the grounding shadow for Twilight Sparkle, so she doesn’t look so floaty.