Malte279's MLP art

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Silly Lyra tribute to Dori-to

I love the Silly Lyra comics by Dori-to. They made me laugh and smile often and I thought that it would be good idea to create a little tribute to him as a little thank you for all those laughs and smiles. I imagine a pony like Lyra would be the type to laugh or wink herself about being taken for a ride in such a manner. So I made an origama Lyra reading a Silly Lyra comic. The original idea was to fold a Lyra sitting on a bench, but since I have done that already I let her lay on a paper blanket instead and dangle one of her legs in a rather human way (that can be seen better in this view of the scene from the other side).

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Chalk Lyra & Bon Bon

For Equestria Daily's Lyra and Bonbon Day 2017 I drew the two with Bon Bon in front since I had done a chalk Lyra before. I'm quite happy with how they turned out (though their eyes may be a little derpylike ). This is a color intensified version of the chalk drawing. Here you can find a version without intensified colors and a black and white version.

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Lyra and Bon Bon wagon

Ocassioned by the Lyra and Bonbon Day on Equestria Daily I made a little pencil drawing of the two and digitalized it. We have Lyra and Bon Bon both living up to their names and cutie marks by playing the lyre and throwing bonbons for an unshown crowd to catch while sitting on a wagon.

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Chalk Gilda

I made this chalk drawing at a schoolparty of the school where my Mum was teaching. One kid asked me if I could make a drawing of Gilda and her wish was my command of course ;-) The also assisted by wiping the chalk to smooth the drawing, so this is a bit of a collaborative project. Here is a color intensified version of this image and a black and white version.

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Tinfoil Celestia

In summer 2017 I wanted to try something new and made this figure of Princess Celestia and the Tree of Harmony out of tinfoil. For the golden parts of Celestia's crown, necklace and hoofwear I used golden tinfoil that comes as the wrapping of one confectionary brand (while I never found anything comparable in stores). I edited the photograph to include semi-transparent colors to the mane and tail of Celestia. Here is a link to the unaltered version of this image.

I also made a little animation of her “walking in circles” so you get a view on her from every side:

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The warming and the scorching sun

This image of Celestia and Daybreaker is the first I ever did with pastel pencils (which I had lying around for years but never actually used). I added a simple digital background with a landscape symbolizing the effects the different "solar policies" of Celestia respectively Daybreaker would probably have on Equestria. EDIT: I replaced the original image (which you can still find here) with a version with a slightly more elaborate background in which noch just the landscape but also the sky got a gradient to symbolize the effects of the different characters.

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Reflecting on Summer Sun Eve

This acrylic painting shows a scene from a little story I have thought of but not written down so far. It would essentially be the story of the early MLP episodes but from the point of view of Celestia. We see her brooding and making decisions near the Tree of Harmony on the Eve of the fateful Summer Sun Celebration of the first episode. I consider it very unlikely that she was taken by surprise by the return of Nightmare Moon but much rather that she was aware of what would happen during the Summer Sun Celebration and that she allowed herself to be captured since this would be the only chance for a return of Luna. This still may have been a great risk for Celestia to take. Moreover it meant giving up whatever control she still may have had about the Elements of Harmony. Seeing how Twilight's Cutie Mark is represented much larger and higher on the Tree of Harmony than those of Celestia and Luna, chances are that the implications of what happened that night may go way farer than we realize so far. The surroundings of the Tree of Harmony don't look exactly like they do in the show, but I wanted a waterfall nearby and some star sky above rather than the cavern it is set in in the series.

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Chalk Princess Celestia & Daybreaker

During a brony meetup in Dortmund on Juliy 16th, 2017 (with the approachting Celestia Day of Equestria Daily in mind) I made these little Chalk portraits of Princess Celestia and Daybreaker:

Here is a closeup of the Princess Celestia portrait with enhanced colors:

And here is a closeup of the Daybreaker portrait with enhanced colors:

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Soapstone Celestia animation

I made a little animation showing the recently finished soapstone figure of Princess Celestia from all sides. The individual images of the animation can be found here: Image01 Image02 Image03 Image04 Image05 Image06 Image07 Image08 Image09 Image10 Image11 Image12

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Soapstone Celestia collage

For this collage I made a point of positioning the recently finished Princess Celestia soapstone figure in such a way that the sun would be right behind or very close to it to create some effects giving credit to her role as the one in charge of raising and setting the sun over Equestria. Thanks and credit for the Celestia Cutie Mark in the center of this collage go to BlackGryph0n.

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Making of - soapstone Celestia

Last summer (2017) I carved a little soapstone figure of Princess Celestia.

This collage shows several development stages from the raw rock at the top to the completed figure on the left. In the lower left image you can see the effect of treating the stone with a special oil that makes it more "shiny". While much of the figure is polished with that oil parts of the tail and the right wing were not yet polished when the picture was taken, so you can clearly see the difference. Carving this figure was a bit of a challenge since the stone had many iron inclusions (seen as brown / rusty colored spots on the figure) which were difficult to carve since those figures were much harder than the stone.

Thanks and credit for the Celestia cutie mark used in the center of this collage go to blackgryph0n.

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Chalk Zecora

As I wrote elsewhere before Of chalk drawings I got one more To expand my chalk drawing range It's not a pony for a change Surrounded by a nature green aura Here's a portrait of the zebra Zecora ;-) This is the final chalk drawing I did on the 4th of June 2017.

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Windseeker Clayfigure

This little animation gives an all round view of a little clay figure of Windseeker, a good friend's and fellow pen and paper role play gamer's character, which I made for said friends birthday. The character Windseeker joined our characters' group under somewhat strange circumstances in the town of Vanhoover. He is a pegasus healer, who doesn't like flying and who holds some occasionally peculiar views on many things. As a child he lost his parents to Discord who brought them "somewhere" but nopony has a clue where that "somewhere" might be and Discord was turned to stone by Celestia and Luna without having returned Windseeker's parents. So Windseeker was raised by unicorns and identifies himself as a unicorn rather than a pegasus. So strange were these circumstances under which we met that it even looked like the organization of our antagonists might have planted him as an agent in our group. This at least was what my own character, Leafhelm (also a pegasus), suspected when our first meeting went really off on the wrong hoof and when Windseeker tried to secretly sneak some calmatives into our tea while we were having an argument. Further events have proved Windseeker is on the good side and we faced a lot of calamity and peril together. Most members of our group have come to respect Windseeker all the while accepting that we may never fully understand him. The banter between Windseeker and Leafhelm has become a fixed part of our groups' dynamic. While Windseeker has above average sized wings he tends to use them to swipe the floor rather than to fly (much to the horror of Leafhelm who loves flying). The figure is based on my friend's description of his chracter. The individual images of this animation can be found here: Image01 Image02 Image03 Image04 Image05 Image06 Image07 Image08 Image09 (above view, not part of the Animation)

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Chalk Princess Celestia

During 2017 I started doing chalk drawings. This stern looking Princess Celestia was one of my early attempts.

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Hearth’s Warming with the Hooves

As a little wrap up, here is the complete series “Hearth’s warming with the Hooves” in a collage so it can be read like a comic.

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Hearth’s Warming with the Hooves part8 - Silent Night?

In the final image of the Hearth's Warming with the Hooves series Dinky, Derpy and the Doctor are enjoying some well deserved rest after a happy and unexpectedly active Hearth's Warming Eve. Silent Night... but wait... what is wrong with the bobble of Santa Hooves' hat left forgotten underneath the bed?

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Hearth’s Warming with the Hooves part7 - An evening not gone as planned but...

Gone are the parasprites in the seventh part of the Hearth's Warming with the Hooves series and the evening certainly didn't go quite as planned, but to rephrase Celestia in Season one's final episode: "While the evening may not have gone as planned, I'm sure you'll agree that in the end it didn't turn out so bad for this family".