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> Finally uploading my latest submissions for EqD's NATG, starting with the third day's "pony holding an object" prompt. From the beginning, I wanted something musical, but I didn't want to lump Octavia on a pretty background and call it a day.
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> Thus, Discord as a jazz musician came into existence. I took the fan idea of "Discord the artist" and ran with it in a musical direction; jazz, the sax, and sunglasses followed suit, with Octavia subtly fulfilling the prompt's requirement. In Paint Tool Sai, I used linework layers and the Fill Bucket for the characters, while I played around with the Marker tool (sans variable line density) to make the art deco-inspired background.
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> If there's one thing I hate about this image, it's my depiction of the saxophone. I'm no musician, so all those brass bits and pieces make no artistic sense to me. I would've just drawn the thing without those parts, but it turns out they're the only characteristics that keep a saxophone from looking like a boring ol' horn.
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