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MORE THAN A YEAR LATER EDIT:
GAAAAAH THE COLORS ARE TOO BRIGHT

GAAAAAAHHHHHHH IT BURNS MY EYESSSSS
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So this is Applejack unicycling. The trick she's doing is called a "superman." It's fairly easy to do but potentially impressive-looking.

that, or it might be front-hoof wheelwalk.
whatever
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~fluttershy674 Feb 20, 2013
omg to cutteeeee
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~meganschmidt May 10, 2012
So how many layers are you using for your highlighting.. like her hair or her body? Or are you just using the smudge tool a lot?
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~HereticalRants May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I don't actually remember what I did on this one. The colors in it(especially the background) are a bit oversaturated for my tastes, anyway. Things with no contrast of saturation kinda hurt my eyes.

I think I used GIMP. If I was putting the highlights on a different layer I would have had one layer for the highlights on the hair and another layer for the highlights on the body, or maybe just had the highlights for the body on a different layer set to luminosity or division or something(so it would be easier to go across the cutie mark) and the highlights in the hair on the same layer as the initial flat colors. If I used smudge it would have been with a super-high-resolution circular fuzzy brush going along the contours.

Nowadays when I use layers they directly correspond to objects in the foreground/background and I usually end up merging them for the final render.
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~rhythmfanart Mar 25, 2012
Okay, now I've seen everything.
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~SuneGem Sep 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
She makes it look so easy!
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~IronBrony Aug 24, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Cool, Applejack is a clever pony!
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*The-Smiling-Pony Jul 17, 2011
Ponies on unicycles, it just makes sense :p
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~peperoger Jul 17, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
di you use pastels? it looks AMAZINGG!!
my applejack drawing would like that type of coloring
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~HereticalRants Jul 17, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
This was done digitally. I probably could do something similar in pastel (it wouldn't be quite as clean, but some people would prefer the texture and traditional "feel" it would have) but I'd probably have to buy better pastels than the ones I currently own, and I'd have to have the right shades of orange.

For reference, here is the most recent thing I've done in pastel [link]
...which is just a simple landscape that took me 1/10th as long to do as this picture of Applejack did. Chalk pastels on sketchbook paper.


I really, really want to get a good set of oil pastels, though. It's a great medium.
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~peperoger Jul 17, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
whats the differnce with oil pastels?
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