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ARTIST'S NOTE: When I finish a piece and upload it, I look back on it several time the day after. Constantly reviewing and looking over my work. Studying everything, pinpointing mistakes, and critiquing myself. I am OCD, anxious, and aspire to make sure I am satisfied with my work for days to come. And can easily become dissatisfied with my work after a day if I find too many mistakes I overlooked during the process. While I was somewhat satisfied my previous work, I looked back on it, as I usually do, and found too many things that made me grow a disappointment towards it. So, my perfectionism won the round and I went back to do it all over again.

Here are the edits:
Lineart was drawn smaller (at 2.3 point, to be exact) to match the rest of the "Mane 6" work I had done afterward. Also, I think the smaller lines are more beautiful, in my opinion. It makes it easier to provide far more detail than you would with chunky lines. Being as my specialty is line-work, this is important to me.
Instead of going off of the cartoons design (while lovely) I wanted to truly re-design. So I reviewed images of twilight, that is time of day, and try to implement more colors.
HOT TIP: Rather than bright white for the sparkles, I dulled the white to be more grey, made some stars baby blue and dark yellow then made it a Luminosity layer to 61% opacity. This made for a more diverse appearance and helped significantly in color. I also changed her hooves to be somewhat grey-ish rather than full white. (white should ALWAYS be used sparingly since it's a "bold" color, same as black)
Added a crown, because she's BEST PRINCESS
Curled the tail-end to be more fluid and less stiff like in the previous work.

I decided to post this one as a new submission because I know many of my watchers bounce of of me to learn. To those of you who want to excel in art: Accept that your art will not always be great. There will ALWAYS be a better way to do something. If you want to get better, you make it your task to find out what that better is. Change everything. Create something new. Be devious. Pick a 'way-out-there' color! Investigate. Try different methods. Experiment!

However, don't ever let your perfectionism hold you back, or make other artists feel inferior. It's there to make your art BETTER than it was YESTERDAY.

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Posted previously at: 2019-12-14T11:41:29