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So, umm...I tried something...different? Kinda, maybe.
This started by pulling up one of my 3Q stallion head SVGs I commonly exploit to make different faces with (and other stuff) and turning it into Party Favor, before trying shading the only way I know how and trying a few different things with it across more layers (clearly, I need more practice, or feedback
). Then I saw that some of his mouth flexes in the show were a bit different from the usual stallion ones, so I went ahead and used one of those, because reasons. Next I wanted to add a background that wasn't the usual "radial bar sunburst effect" that I often did both here and outside of this profile, before doing a simple spiral, blurring it, and then trying to integrate the cutie mark in some fashion, even if it isn't necessarily in plain sight at all.
Thus after Party Favor I wanted to show a bit of variety by doing different expressions and head angles so that they don't look too similar to each other, and with Sugar Belle I used an angle about one-third between 3Q and frontal, before I made use of a polka-dots pattern just from peering at the pattern-type fill that I'd often just misclick in the past.
With Double Diamond I used an angle in between completely-frontal and 3Q-with-two-eyes, because I know I use that 3Q head angle a lot already (in addition to seeing all those recolors, remixes, and base edits of one of my old works with that head angle, I might have gotten sick of the head angle, not so much the remixes, even if no one else seems to). For his expression I didn't want to go for the glee-type smiles I did for the previous two since I felt his deeper voice made him seem older than the others, so I drew him with a more-reserved smile and went for a more mature and handsome impression, too that his mass of hair would obscure much of his eyes, so I didn't see any reason to keep them wide open or do anything too special with them. For his background, I used a filter I found while I was making something else but never put that filter in that I think fits amazingly and takes the cake for my favorite background in any of these portraits. I also quite liked making that scarf, too, even though you can't see most of it.
Now, by the time I got to Night Glider it took a bit longer to settle on a facial expression for her, since the first one I did for her I felt was too similar to Party Favor's. Then I was about to try doing a "Dreamworks"-style face, before thinking it'd deviate from the others too much, or look even a little suggestive. Eventually I decided to have her winking at you in the kinda manner that RD would, or at least that's the mood I imagined. I didn't necessarily use any of the previous filters or patterns for her background since I couldn't really think of or find one suitable, so I just took a cue from other art I remember seeing where they'd scribble a line or smudge some color on an otherwise blank canvas and go from there.
So that's how this happened, aye.
Might I do this with other character groupings? I can never really say for sure, even though I want to...
Time:
Party Favor: 2 hours
Sugar Belle: 3 hours
Double Diamond: 4 hours
Night Glider: 5 hours




Individual versions (because I know you want them even if they're still PNG and not the SVG): Party Favor – Sugar Belle – Double Diamond – Night Glider
Alternatively on Tumblr.





This started by pulling up one of my 3Q stallion head SVGs I commonly exploit to make different faces with (and other stuff) and turning it into Party Favor, before trying shading the only way I know how and trying a few different things with it across more layers (clearly, I need more practice, or feedback

Thus after Party Favor I wanted to show a bit of variety by doing different expressions and head angles so that they don't look too similar to each other, and with Sugar Belle I used an angle about one-third between 3Q and frontal, before I made use of a polka-dots pattern just from peering at the pattern-type fill that I'd often just misclick in the past.
With Double Diamond I used an angle in between completely-frontal and 3Q-with-two-eyes, because I know I use that 3Q head angle a lot already (in addition to seeing all those recolors, remixes, and base edits of one of my old works with that head angle, I might have gotten sick of the head angle, not so much the remixes, even if no one else seems to). For his expression I didn't want to go for the glee-type smiles I did for the previous two since I felt his deeper voice made him seem older than the others, so I drew him with a more-reserved smile and went for a more mature and handsome impression, too that his mass of hair would obscure much of his eyes, so I didn't see any reason to keep them wide open or do anything too special with them. For his background, I used a filter I found while I was making something else but never put that filter in that I think fits amazingly and takes the cake for my favorite background in any of these portraits. I also quite liked making that scarf, too, even though you can't see most of it.

Now, by the time I got to Night Glider it took a bit longer to settle on a facial expression for her, since the first one I did for her I felt was too similar to Party Favor's. Then I was about to try doing a "Dreamworks"-style face, before thinking it'd deviate from the others too much, or look even a little suggestive. Eventually I decided to have her winking at you in the kinda manner that RD would, or at least that's the mood I imagined. I didn't necessarily use any of the previous filters or patterns for her background since I couldn't really think of or find one suitable, so I just took a cue from other art I remember seeing where they'd scribble a line or smudge some color on an otherwise blank canvas and go from there.
So that's how this happened, aye.


Time:
Party Favor: 2 hours
Sugar Belle: 3 hours
Double Diamond: 4 hours
Night Glider: 5 hours




Individual versions (because I know you want them even if they're still PNG and not the SVG): Party Favor – Sugar Belle – Double Diamond – Night Glider
Alternatively on Tumblr.






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Dubs, Favor, and Glider were so underused. I swear the writers had meant to do more with them, or at least Favor since he got a speaking cameo in the movie. But then the most we saw of them was at Sugar Belle's wedding. It's criminal. Like, imagine them visiting Ponyville to catch up with Sugar and possibly interact with Starlight and the girls. That would've had to happen after she became Big Mac's girlfriend and before their wedding, but still.