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Under the Sun · FiM Short Story ·
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#1 · 1
· · >>Novel_Idea
Harvesting the power of the Sun with crystals. Interesting.
As for the style, I'm not sure. We don't really have much to clearly see how 'good' you can be with a pen (if it has been hand drawn). However, the lighting is great, especially around the Sun, and since it's one of the main focus of the piece, this is what counts the most.

Thank you for your work.
#2 · 1
· · >>Novel_Idea
This is pretty overall, and nice job on the sun and the colors. The crystals could be rendered a lot better; photo references of real gems could help here. Thus the bottom of the picture looks odd compared to the top.
#3 · 1
· · >>Novel_Idea
this looks very new age druggie like I'm pretty sure my friend Trisha could talk about it for five minutes if she wanted to
#4 · 1
· · >>Novel_Idea
You did a great job of making that sun look really bright.

I think the crystals would have been better if they were either all pretty similar or all different. And it might have looked a bit better if the start of the energy stream had covered a larger area.

On the whole, a pretty good entry.
#5 · 1
· · >>Novel_Idea
First thing that caught my eye was the background. The texture makes it look like it's all happening in a strangely tiled dome, or maybe the sky itself is broken. It's a really cool effect, either way. I noticed there are six primary tendrils coming off of the sun, touching five on-screen crystals. I assume there's a sixth out of shot. Interesting to note is the one tendril showing a extra little love to the right-most crystal.

What does this all mean? Hell if I know, but it looks great.
#6 · 2
· · >>Super_Trampoline
So I totally screwed up and set this to Anonymous instead of me.

>>Fenton
Yeah, I'm terrible with a pen. All of these assets were pre-created. I did the coloring, effects and stylization. While the sun was created using a generator, it was one of those generators with way too many options, so that one did take way too much work to get right! Thank you!

>>GroaningGreyAgony
I ended up using some pre-rendered gemstones on a white background I had to remove. Since I couldn't find a vector that I liked, it ended up far more jagged than I realized. So yeah, definite disconnect.

>>Super_Trampoline
I'd love to hear it, more just to laugh my tail off at whatever she said.

>>The_Letter_J
Secret: that stream is actually a recolored MLP dead tree vector. Heh. The concept I was trying to originally go with was the sun first flowing into the top crystals and then into the bottom. Didn't quite work the way I wanted it to.

>>Rao
I'm glad someone noticed! It ended up being more subtle than I wanted it to, but I was trying to amplify the crystallization concept.
Also, I love that you put extra meaning to the "sixth." And the "extra love."

It's almost like I knew what I was doing!

(I didn't. No clue.)

But hey, I inspired some really cool stories, so I'll take that as a win!
#7 ·
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>>Novel_Idea
She's "Crispy Sparrow" on FimFiction; I'm sure she'd be happy to give her take on it.