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>>Hap I'm glad you liked it so much. :) Truth be told, the second moth is on the back of the paper. I didn't think it would show through as much as it did, because no scanner, but... yeah. I was working with a bunch of loose sheets, trying to nail the outline, and I started filling this one in to see how it would look. After doing the eyes and part of the right wing, though, I decided I didn't want to start over with a clean sheet of paper... So it was kinda a mix of time and laziness, really. I should get some thicker paper for drawing.
You're definitely right about some of the ink being sloppy. I did this all in one sitting, and my hand was getting pretty tired. I should have broken it up a bit, to keep the shapes fresh and give my fingers a break, but yeah. The order here was right wing - outside part of left wing - right tail - rest of left wing - left tail - body, and I think it shows. I'm especially unhappy with the left wing, tbh, because it's very complex without being equally interesting.
>>Moosetasm
>>CoffeeMinion
The relation to the prompt is that moths have false eyes on their wings; they're essentially 'pretending' to be bigger and more important than they are. The 'eyes' thing kinda got subsumed by the Luna/Celestia thing, (and Twilight's star was a pure whim) but those patterns are intended to look like a closed eye and an open eye, as well as the sun and the moon. I probably should have drawn the eyes as slightly more realistic, and let the colors carry the pony connotation more, but this was originally conceived in black-and-white; I started with a simple ballpoint and some printer paper. When the ballpoint died, I went to office depot and bought some gel pens, so color was added, but I didn't re-design the eyes. I originally wanted it to be more eyes, less pony, but it sort of ended up the other way around.
You're correct about it being a fairly nondescript story-prompt, though, I'm very pleased that it got used at all, especially when there were so many better pieces.
>>GroaningGreyAgony
I have a scanner app on my phone, and I did give it a try. Unfortunately, whatever correction algorithms it used insisted on smearing the color out of the lines and into the whitespace. It's possible yours would be more effective, but I think the relatively high-contrast with thin lines made this a bad fit for automatic clean-up. I legit did consider importing it into a photo-editor and cleaning it manually, but time and energy weren't there. Maybe next time I'll use the scanner at work.
Thanks for all the comments, guys! I'm glad I made this.
You're definitely right about some of the ink being sloppy. I did this all in one sitting, and my hand was getting pretty tired. I should have broken it up a bit, to keep the shapes fresh and give my fingers a break, but yeah. The order here was right wing - outside part of left wing - right tail - rest of left wing - left tail - body, and I think it shows. I'm especially unhappy with the left wing, tbh, because it's very complex without being equally interesting.
>>Moosetasm
>>CoffeeMinion
The relation to the prompt is that moths have false eyes on their wings; they're essentially 'pretending' to be bigger and more important than they are. The 'eyes' thing kinda got subsumed by the Luna/Celestia thing, (and Twilight's star was a pure whim) but those patterns are intended to look like a closed eye and an open eye, as well as the sun and the moon. I probably should have drawn the eyes as slightly more realistic, and let the colors carry the pony connotation more, but this was originally conceived in black-and-white; I started with a simple ballpoint and some printer paper. When the ballpoint died, I went to office depot and bought some gel pens, so color was added, but I didn't re-design the eyes. I originally wanted it to be more eyes, less pony, but it sort of ended up the other way around.
You're correct about it being a fairly nondescript story-prompt, though, I'm very pleased that it got used at all, especially when there were so many better pieces.
>>GroaningGreyAgony
I have a scanner app on my phone, and I did give it a try. Unfortunately, whatever correction algorithms it used insisted on smearing the color out of the lines and into the whitespace. It's possible yours would be more effective, but I think the relatively high-contrast with thin lines made this a bad fit for automatic clean-up. I legit did consider importing it into a photo-editor and cleaning it manually, but time and energy weren't there. Maybe next time I'll use the scanner at work.
Thanks for all the comments, guys! I'm glad I made this.