#atowncalledbedlam

[jessi-lionheart-blog]

A spammage of @atowncalledbedlam being adorable with hors frens, as requested!

[atrevcorner]

It’s been a little while since I tackled something from @atowncalledbedlam. I believe the lesson from this one should be ‘always ask the artist for the source files’, but a part of me always likes to make these a surprise. There are three poses from the original sketch, and I wanted to color them all. I figured them to be pretty easy with my improved skills, but I ran into a problem on my part. I’ll get into it more down below. Right now, a brief summary.

This scootaloo is from some concept sketches for @southernbelleaj‘s current running comic The Only One. Dilarus has been one to advocate differing body types for these canon characters and has done wonderful things as a result. Giving our beloved cast more personality and depth without them having to say a single word. One of many marks that makes a good cartoonist which Dil aspires to be.

Original sketch and more writing below the Keep Reading line.

I might still go back and color the other two. It’s just that it ended up being a bit more time consuming than I had originally thought. I opened this post with me saying I needed to get the source files from Dil before hand, and here’s why.

Dil has a light touch with his art. This is a style, not a shortcoming. When he’s not expecting something to be colored, he’ll leave open lines that help attribute to his sketching style. I personally enjoy it as its kind of interesting how the mind completes the line for us. We hardly even notice the lines unless you end up coloring for the guy for over a year. But that’s not hard to overcome. You just complete the line with color and fill in the rest.

Well, the issue came more for me wanting to change the line color from the light blue to something more show accurate. A darker hue of the colors they contained. Well, Dil’s sketching brush has some soft edges to it so every time I tried to delete all the white it would alias (make blocky lines) the sketch if not outright delete some of the lines. It didn’t look good, and what’s the point of coloring Dilarus’ sketch if it doesn’t highlight his wonderful line work?

I tried a bunch of different ways to get it to work. None of the quicker ways were working, so I had to go with the slower rout.

Putting the original sketch as a Multiply Layer keeps you from killing the lines when you color over them, but it will also kind of blend with them as well. Above is the original blue lines, but coloring them with the body and hair colors made them dark enough to seem like a black outline instead of a clashing blue one. Of course this meant carefully covering the edges by hand instead of using the myriad shortcuts that digital art provides us.

Of course it’s likely he has the layers separate in the source files rather than the .jpg that I ripped from the site. It would have been quick and easy then. Welp, that ones on me. Another learning experience, no?

I’m still satisfied how this turned out. I want to see more of this style of scoots in color. I’ll get to the rest of them eventually.

[nightskiespony]

An excellent commish from @dilarus ( @atowncalledbedlam ) !!

Sandstorm hugging Melody!

[askchangeling]

Adorable commissions of both myself and Starsweeper by @atowncalledbedlam!

These are so cute, my little black heart almost can’t handle it. <3

[bkfisher]

The things I look at when I’m supposed to be productive.

[lilfunkman]

Collab with @atowncalledbedlam! They are an awesome artist that does awesome comics such as @meetthepones and @southernbelleaj, check em out

[rainbowfeatherreplies]

“I’m me, and that’s awesome.”

Rainbow Feather by @atowncalledbedlam

[couchcrusader]

atowncalledbedlam replied to your photo: jykinturah-art: I drew this for fourths on...

Is that a question??

Here’s your answer??

[atowncalledbedlam]

Queencess Crispycreme.

(Deviant Art)

[jessi-lionheart-blog]

We said hallo to hors frens again! Have a Dil gif!

[atrevcorner]

Posted to the wrong blog on accident. Cleaning it up and making sure to post it here.

See this thing up here? That’s Dil’s Lineart, but it’s actually based on something @tricomator put together when they were ‘waiting for food.’ 

Original here: 

I asked @atowncalledbedlam to line it for me so I could try and color it. Being a great friend, he quickly obliged. The photo quality of the original is next to impossible to color correctly without relining the entire thing… which I did try to do myself before asking someone more skilled than I.

Little bit of color. forgive me. But you see how my inexperience shows? well, I’m going to go further into that below…

I love these character’s of Tri’s. Erica is the big pone, Pebble is the little one. There’s a story behind these two, but the end result is a adorable duo of a strong character with military training ending up as a surrogate mother as well.  Too really cute to properly explain. As with the other posts, I did end up coloring this one, but I made a large amount of mistakes. Finally, after learning about everything I could about what I did wrong and what I could do better, I called it good and decided to move on.

This taught me how important it is to work with a base color. even if it’s pure white. Relying on the aesthetic of brushes will just end up causing pain in the when working with a piece like this. It doesn’t look horrible, but see… I tried making a background. 

This is what happens when you have no idea what you’re doing. I couldn’t make it look like there was depth. The layers were screwed up so there is horrible cohesion between the bad color choice. I tried to help things along by adding a white ‘halo’ around the characters but it did little in distinguishing them from the background. Even the halo, I found, should have been a brush instead of an eraser. And the soft brushes I used for the base color wasn’t doing me any favors. The trick with the halo works for @meetthepones, in case you haven’t noticed it yourself.

I’ll improve probably when I’m not writing this late at night and setting it to post later in the day. I put quite a bit of effort in seeing this turn out nice. I learned quite a bit, but I’m not exactly satisfied with the work I did. Dilarus is amazing, as usual. So is Trico. I do hope this makes a good attempt for you guys, as this is in no way up to the standard I believe your line-art deserves.

[bkfisher]

Don’t stop there, support @amarynceus AND @atowncalledbedlam, all this and more await you at their respective Patreon pages!

https://www.patreon.com/Dilarus_art

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know my all-new patreon is live now. If you like the comics and drawings I make, please consider becoming a patron to help me reach financial stability so I can spend more time drawing and less time worrying about bills.

From as little as $1 a month you will get access to a Patreon-exclusive Discord server where I will post behind the scenes art, scripts and rough pages for upcoming projects, as well as works-in-progress, concept art, pages of doodles and almost everything else that I draw!

If you cannot pledge right now, then reblogging to help me get the word out would be tremendously helpful!

Any feedback would be much appreciated, if you would instead like to make a one-time donation you can buy me a coffee through my ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/dilarus

Stay delicious!

-Dil

[dimbulb-brony]

At last, they're all together! These are drawings by @atowncalledbedlam a.k.a. Dilarus, turned into little animations.

[mylittleponygames]

atowncalledbedlam: Fun with toned paper! Just a reminder I’m... http://dlvr.it/RFXypD Brony and furry news: http://awoonews.com http://dlvr.it/RFXypD

[faline-art]

Two horns are better than one, right? 

This little soul devouring cutie was inspired by one of @atowncalledbedlam‘s recent sketches. 

[taurson]

Cute Applejack I did a while back with a bit of @atowncalledbedlam style in the sense ^^”