DeviantArt has this thing where it tells you when it’s someone’s birthday. Sometimes I feel like I ought to do something when it does.
 
Drawing someone’s OC seems to be the universally accepted art gift among artpones, as sort of the one thing that’s guaranteed to be personally relevant to the recipient. It’s not a bad custom. It seemed to work out pretty well in this case.
 
Anyway, this is Bradel-Bound, and he’s more of a ficpone, but that means he’s cool. If you like ponefic, go read this ficpone’s ponefics.
 
This is an interesting piece in the context of my art journey too. I finally took verrmont’s recurring color advice, and tried to exaggerate the warm/cool difference between the light and shadow. This has more or less the same lighting conditions as It’ll be Fun, but more a more appealing color pallette. (I think) I also didn’t sketch this, but just sorta painted it in place, which is even rarer than the eschewing of my usual value-first digital painting style, which I also did. Given that I made it in what can be best described as a fit of last minute panic, I think it came out okay.