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Submitted: May 19, 2012
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Spikeby ~TysonTan

Fan Art / Anthro / Digital / Movies & TV

A fanart of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
(c) Hasbro / Lauren Faust
Fan costume designed and artwork by Extvia.

This is my version of Spike [link] . On the left side are the "past time" Little Twilight Sparkle and the just-hatched Spike when Twilight adopted him. On the right side are the "present time" Spike and Peewee the little phoenix he adopted. The calendar in the middle shows the flowing of time.

Dragons are mostly ferocious and evil creatures by nature in Equestria. Spike is different because the love of Twilight, and of course the love was passed from her family too. I liked how Spike's being affected and became a kind dragon adopting Peewee. However as he was the one who broke up Peewee with its family so I wonder how he's going to confess with Peewee about this in the future (serious family drama awaits) XD

By drawing this picture I've completed my interpretation the 6+1 main cast. I wonder which character(s) you guys / girls want me to drawin the future? Please tell me in the comment!

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Created on Ubuntu [link] in Unity [link] desktop environment using Krita [link] from KDE softwares [link] with its default brush sets. I thank all open source organizations and communities that make this possible.

This is the second picture I created on GNU/Linux using only open source tools. I used Krita [link] on this one. Krita convinced me that it's okay to migrate from Windows to GNU/Linux because of its well designed, extremely flexible UI (one of the KDE advantages, I guess) and the responsive brush system. It has almost everything I need to draw a picture.

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Critique by ~Esitaro3670 May 20, 2012, 8:44:24 PM

honestly, i am not a brony or a ""Big Fan" of MLP, just i think is a good and funny cartoon, a little things too "rose", but this draw is very awesome, i dont know if spike its the only boy mini dragon in all pony ville or, whatever the name, but the draw is very cute and awesome, i am so sorry being acting like a jerk, but i am critiquen the draw, and looks very cute and awesome at the same time.
(P.S: I am REALLY sorry to write before like a jerk, MLP:FIM looks a little funny).

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Critique by =LuckyJackal May 19, 2012, 7:40:44 PM

A very good take on what Spike would be like when he's older. I like that you included the phoenix, referencing the episode "Dragon Quest", as it's a good throwback and shows that you thought about the show's canon.

In terms of technique, overall you've done well. The lines are smooth, the shadows all seem to be in appropriate places, the background colors are nice and mellow (since I assume you were going for a sort of "nostalgic" mood, with the passage of time and everything), the characters and books contrast nicely against said colors, and the outfits are great; they're much better than the costumes I can currently come up with!

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I have a few suggestions though. First of all, I think the piece could have been composed a bit better, specifically with the "flowing of time" theme. When I was looking at the picture, at first I couldn't tell what exactly was happening. I thought "Oh, there's adult Spike! Wait...or is the little one Spike? Or is that his son?". Since both Twilight and older Spike have the same amount of shading, same line weight, etc., I view them in the same space. To me, Twilight seems to be the focus of the picture since it looks like she's a bit closer to the viewer than Spike is. However, once I read the description, I understood the whole passage of time thing. But without it, I would have continued to think that they occupy the same space/time. So there may be a better way to do that, like having the calendar pages flow towards the viewer in the middle, obscuring some part of Twilight and revealing older Spike on the other side. Or changing up the style by making Twilight feel more dream-like and older Spike looking sharper/more defined.

Also, I feel like the shadows could have been darker in some spots. However, they're fine as they are and this is more of a personal opinion than anything. Darkening up the shadows in some places could, again, help set the two figures apart and help us tell that they're occupying different time periods.

Overall, I really like this piece. I mean I REALLY like it, so much so that I've written my first critique! Even though you've clearly been doing the artsy stuff longer than me and are more skilled, for some reason I just needed to write a critique for this! I've been in a rut for a while and this has inspired me to keep drawing, even though I've been utterly failing at it for the past few days. Thank you for uploading this piece, and I hope this critique helped!